A ‘Patriotic Heretic’ Favoring Renewal of U.S.-Russian Détente
... difference. The mechanisms ... to manage the risks of escalation that existed in the past no longer seem to be present” (pp. 188-189) [ 3 ]. Cohen cautions that the new Cold War is “more fraught with the possibility of a hot war”—on three fronts: Ukraine, Syria, and the Baltics (p. 67)—and that the only way to avert a hot war or “another prolonged Cold War” is through a new U.S.-Russia “détente,” i.e. the expansion of cooperation and radical reduction in the possibility of violent and potentially nuclear conflict (p. 26). Cohen claims that today’s U.S. dealings with Russia, as opposed to the détente talks between U.S....
18.03.2021
