... your mind.
The ‘future’ has already happened. Our task is to guess in what new names and colours it exists, and this is where our memories come into play. I remember the euphoria accompanying the fall of the Berlin Wall and the alleged end of the Cold War, which led to a unipolar world. But how many of us do properly recall the major events that have occurred in recent years? Given our fast digitally-controlled lives, the masses tend to have ever shorter attention spans, and memories are becoming ...
... today than ever before in history” (p. 109).
So wrote the American expert on Russia Stephen F. Cohen—who passed away on 18 September 2020 in New York—in his last published book [
1
]. For over a dozen years, Cohen had been warning of a “new Cold War,” no longer between two capitalist and communist blocs, but between the U.S. and the post-communist Russia. A number of other prominent scholars and institutions, such as the left-leaning Noam Chomsky [
2
], and the right-leaning Council of ...
... events have sparked hopes that Moscow and Washington are beginning to realize the scale of the growing risks and threats to international security: consultations on the Ukrainian issue are underway; efforts to find a political solution to the Syrian ... ... about any stabilization of U.S.–Russia relations.
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Ivan Timofeev:
Russia and the West: Recalling the Cold War
The risk of political confrontation turning into a military one continues to grow, and there have been no breakthroughs ...
It is necessary to realize who makes decisions and how
In the Cold War period the interest in military-political predictability coexisted with tough confrontation. The current situation is much more dangerous.
Relations between Russia and the West have become more dangerous than during the Soviet-US confrontation....
