0 happening or existing in the period after a war, especially the First or Second World War:
1 happening or existing in the period after a war, esp. World War II
The war of words between the 'old enemies', played out on the wartime and immediate postwar political and media stages, was essentially a phoney war.
Since the mid-1980s, exchanges have been pigeonholed and professionalised into something very different from the sweeping utopian projects of the postwar period.
A sense, rightly or not, that the promises of the postwar world were unfulfilled.
However, the postwar settlements also served the extreme right in certain 'sated' powers.
There was no room in his production for the nuance of postwar modernism.
The article marks a postwar revival of interest in evolutionary narratives in psychiatry.
Thirdly comes the grassroots level where local leadership is so important, especially in such vital areas as postwar trauma and if necessary resettlement.
For the regime, the need for postwar stabilization was acute.