Endgame of the Long Cold War

... “tous azimuths”, is still germane to Russia in the present context, but needs to be developed and refined in the new historical situation, distinguishing between the ‘main’ and the ‘basic’, the ‘dominant’ and the ‘determinant’, vectors.... ... return to a bad, even traumatic cold-war alliance? An extremely pertinent question is whether there was an illusion about the West; one which returned in the late 1980s and the decade of the 1990s, but had its roots in 1956 and after. There were at least three major sources of the Sino-Soviet split, and one of them was the attitude to the US or a perceived tilt on the part ...