| ID | 090032 |
| Title Proper | Putting a final end to the cold war |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Lavrov, Sergei |
| Publication | 2008. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The Caucasus crisis and the global financial and economic crisis have both contributed to drawing a line under the 20 year period since the downfall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. They put an end to the policy that has been pursued by inertia all these years, in particular in the vein of the old political and psychological thrust to "contain" Russia. Some of our partners in the West, although far from all of them, acted in the spirit of the notorious triumphalism that claimed victory in the Cold War and anticipated a kind of Western-style "world revolution." It was precisely this inertia that prevented people from perceiving the Cold War as completely over: for many the Cold War continued at an ideological level as a virtual project of certain forces that proclaimed "the end of history" and "a one polar world" and tried to translate it all into a very specific and practical policy. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Affairs (Moscow) Vol. 55, No. 3; 2009: p10-17 |
| Journal Source | International Affairs (Moscow) Vol. 55, No. 3; 2009: p10-17 |
| Key Words | Russia ; Foreign Policy ; International Relations |