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Do you think Cold War still exists after the disintegration of the Soviet Union?

  • UPSC 2003
  • Changing International Political Order

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George Orwell used "cold war" in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb" (October 1945), and Walter Lippmann's The Cold War (1947) popularised it for a confrontation that stopped short of direct war between the superpowers. As a system it had defining features: bipolarity, a global ideological binary, rigid blocs, a nuclear standoff managed by…

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