![]() In your part of the world, for example, the Anglo-Russian competition, the Great Game in the 19th century, never actually directly resulted in a hot war between Russia and Britain. Not all conflicts have become hot wars and many have just continued over very long periods of time. ![]() However, cold wars, with lower case letters, generic cold wars, have been there throughout history. So you can think of that Cold War – I like to put that one in capital letters – as being a distinctive period in international relations. ![]() That Cold War certainly was an outgrowth of circumstances of World War II and how that ended – that situation is not coming back. The Cold War, as we knew it from 1945 to 1989, is not back because that Cold War had certain distinctive characteristics, one of which was the ideological character of the conflict – capitalism versus communism. Exactly a week after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on March 3, Gaddis spoke to Hindustan Times about the significance of this moment, how it is different from the Cold War, what Kennan would have thought of Vladimir Putin and advised the US to do, the history of the Sino-Russia relationship, India’s predicament in light of its non-aligned past, what went wrong in the post-Cold War era, and what lies ahead. ![]()
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