Why We Will Soon Miss The Cold War - 90.08

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Why We Will Soon Miss The Cold War - 90.08 A U G U S T 1 9 9 0 The conditions that have made for decades of peace in the West are fast disappearing, as Europe prepares to return to the multi-polar system that, between 1648 and 1945, bred one destructive conflict after another by John J. Mearsheimer P eace: it's wonderful. I like it as much as the next man, and have no wish to be willfully gloomy at a moment when optimism about the future shape of the world abounds. Nevertheless my thesis in this essay is that we are likely soon to regret the passing of the Cold War. To be sure, no one will mis

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