End of the Cold War End of the State of War by Dario Battistella Since the falling down of the Berlin Wall there is proliferation of interna tional conflicts throughout the world But for the central states the end of the Cold War above all means the progressive substitution of heterogeneous international system by homogeneous one the greater importance of influence politics in comparison to traditional power politics as well as the growing impossibility of strictly separating domestic and foreign policies Of course the rise of such an unknown transnational world-system does not put an end to international domination and dependency But it probably means that the classical state-of-war-paradigm is no longer appropriate to contempo rary international relations.