 Examples of the parochialistic nature of IR include "geographical parochialism" and "cultural chauvinism".For the former, the construction of the Cold War era as a time of peace ignores the reality that major conflicts continued in the developing world.Furthermore, the oft-cited history of IR is constructed in western terms ("more information under history"); and IR has been used to justify everything from imperialism to a "playground" for skirmishes between the two Cold War superpowers.