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Sound Policies for Eastern Europe
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CURRENT ISSUES
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2 / 1990 |
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In the wake of the Malta summit and looking ahead to the June summit in Washington, D.C., THE WORLD & I asked two distinguished academics to examine U.S.-Soviet relations and to discuss what strategic and economic steps the United States should take to further those relations. Participating in this “East-West Forum” were Dimitri Simes of the Cambridge Endowment and Henry Nau, associate dean of the Elliott School at George Washington University. Lee Edwards, senior editor for Current Issues at THE WORLD & I, moderated.
THE WORLD & I: Is the Cold War over? Are we at the beginning of its end or somewhere in between?
SIMES: I think the Cold war is over. But the Cold War was not just another period of hostility between great powers; it was period when the United States saw the Soviet challenge as the overriding national security problem and everything else had to be subordinated to dealing with this one threat.
The American system of alliances, the U.S. force posture, other international issues - all these have had to be looked at through the prism of this great history-shaping rivalry with the Soviet Union.
This overriding priority, in my view, is no longer there. This is not to say that the Soviet Union will not remain a great power - and even, very often, an adversarial power - or that there will be no serious tension between Moscow and Washington. I can visualize a zigzag in the U.S.-Soviet relationship, or as skirmish here or there.
But the Cold War
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