Despite alarmist fears about a resurgent Russia, it is too weak to pose the same threat to Europe as the bad old Soviet Union. The case for a major U.S. commitment to the region is therefore much weaker than it was during the Cold War. ..…
China's aggressiveness and political gains Asia and the recent US switch to policy toward China may be analogous to the struggle and tension over Europe at the beginning of Cold War.. ... The assumption of the US during Cold War was that Soviet Union was..…
The problem for Professor Mearsheimer is that he is locked into his cold war mentality. There is something which he calls “Russia”, which he is conflating with the former Soviet Union, and there is something called “the West”, the two being eternal enemies. ..…
National solidarities of all sorts quickly reconsolidated after the breakup of the Soviet Union, as they did in the Islamic world after the collapse of the Cold War dualities that had helped keep nationalist autocrats in place. ..…
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