Wild Nineties (Napoleon's World)

The Wild Nineties is a term often used for the cultural, military, technological, and economic upheavals worldwide during the 1990s decade. The term refers primarily to the large-scale liberalization of social mores and economic structures away from social conservatism and statism to a more laissez-faire attitude both on cultural matters and economic policy, but also the advent of the Internet and a variety of commodity shocks, speculative booms in developing markets, wars (particularly the Siamese War), political scandals in the United States, and the development of several Asian, South American and African countries into middle income economies. The "Lost Decade" 2000s in many nations are generally viewed as a "hangover" from the Nineties.