Félix Guattari died one night in August 1992. This was when the illusion of peace evaporated which, in 1989, had accompanied the collapse of the social-authoritarian bloc and the end of the Cold War. The Gulf War in 1991, and then the development of the Yugoslavian situation all the way to the explosion of the Serbo-Croatian war, opened a new world stage. No longer was there a bi-polar front, and therefore military conflicts were no longer controllable in a centralized manner. Conflict happened along lines irreducible to global order or a unitary strategy. Lines of ethnic, religious, Nazi-nationalistic and tribalist sorts overlapped with the lines of the planetary economic conflict. On the economic level, the interests of integrated world capitalism (which was pushing toward globalization) ferociously compressed the living standard of the masses in the world's impoverished countries, over which the international organisms controlling the economy imposed a free-trade choice that functioned in a catastrophic way, enriching a globalized bourgeoisie (or a virtual class integrated into global capital). The effects were evident in the final years of the 1990s with the collapse of Russian society, and the economic crises of countries in the Far East, from Thailand to Korea and even Japan.