Why Framing US-China Ties As A Cold-War-Style Coexistence Doesn’t Help
Soviet idea of coexistence was to prevent military conflict, which was seen as a viable choice. But for Chinese, coexistence underlines global interaction, trade. Read More Here
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The New Nuclear Era
For many years, scholars and officials have believed that the nuclear problem was a relic of the Cold War. To the contrary, the world is moving closer to a new era that could be defined even more sharply by nuclear weapons, as Vladimir Putin’s threats against Ukraine demonstrate. Read More Here
New Atlantis, The Greater Middle Kingdom, And Cold War II
Two realms, New Atlantis and the Greater Middle Kingdom, are relatively evenly matched, in a geopolitical duel that has stayed mostly peaceful, albeit hostile. Read More Here
Gorbachev Never Realised What He Set In Motion
Almost nobody has ever had such a profound impact on an era, while understanding so little about it. Read More Here
End Of An Era: Gorbachev Is Dead
The last leader — Secretary General — of the Soviet Union was also, in many ways the architect of the superpower’s collapse. Mikhail Gorbachev has died Gorbachev’s Disputed Legacy Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Leader Who Ended Cold War, Dies at 91 Turning Point At Chernobyl The Revolution And Perestroika
The Post-Global Economy
A succession of shocks over the past decade and a half have significantly reversed the dominant international economic trend of the post-Cold War era. Read More Here
Containment Beyond The Cold War
Why did relations between Washington and Moscow deteriorate so badly? History is rarely monocausal, and the decay was the cumulative product of U.S. and Russian policies and politics over time. Read More Here
Can the Australia-India-Japan Strategic Triangle Counter China?
The evolution of the Indo-Pacific security structure, from the Cold War “Hub and Spokes” model to more networked comprehensive architecture, has featured growing security relationships among Australia, India, and Japan. Read More Here
The New Cold War – America, China, And The Echoes of History
Is the world entering a new cold war? Our answer is yes and no. Yes if we mean a protracted international rivalry, for cold wars in this sense are as old as history itself. Some became hot, some didn’t: no law guarantees either outcome. No if we mean the Cold War, which we capitalize because it originated […]
The Return Of Great-Power Proxy Wars
Throughout history, great powers have often competed by supporting proxy forces. The Cold War, for example, was hardly a “long peace” when one considers the numerous externally abetted, intrastate conflicts and shadow wars that took place. There is no reason to think that U.S. competition with China and Russia will be any different than earlier periods of […]
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