Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security

... whole world into a world war. It is not impossible for history to repeat itself. This is a particularly fragile time in the international security situation. The collapse of the world order, the fierce confrontation between major countries, the failure of international institutions and the inefficiency ... ... the international order in the twentieth century was marked by three world wars, namely, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War—which was also, in a sense, a special form of world war. The Versailles system emerged after World War I, the Yalta ...