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IN 1983, VLADIMIR LUKIN* brought out a book that became a landmark not only for the Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, where he worked at that time, but for the entire Soviet scholarly community. It was per se remarkable that the book, entitled Centers of Power: Concepts and Realities, was published at a time when, let me remind you, the Soviet-American confrontation and the rivalry between the two world systems reached their peak and, let's face it, each system professed an ideology that essentially painted a black-and-white picture of the world and claimed to be superior to the other system. Few people could have thought in those days that that state of affairs could come to an end any time soon. The United States was getting ready for a grueling struggle with the Soviets. Almost nobody in either country thought that any third party would ever come forward and throw down the gauntlet to the world's two superpowers. Each system was getting ready for its own historic victory and saw the rest of the world as so many pieces on the chessboard.
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THE WEST, shocked by Crimea's voluntary re-unification with Russia, qualified the latter's actions as an undisguised challenge to the world order and started talking about it as one of the gravest threats to international security.1 There are appeals to the Western community to close ranks to stop Moscow's aggression against the East European countries even though nobody in the Baltic states, none of which is favorably disposed to Russia, believes that this scenario might be realized.2
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