Our story begins not in Balkans of the 1990s except rather in the wilderness of Afghanistan at the end of the 1980s as defeated Soviet invaders withdrew from decade of warfare into the twilight of empire. ..…
Histories of the 40-year US-Soviet Cold War tell us that both sides came to understand their mutual responsibility for the conflict, a recognition that created political space for the constant peace-keeping negotiations, including nuclear arms control agreements, often known as détente. ..…
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