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24 июня 2014 г. на интернет-сайте European Leadership Network опубликована статья д.полит.н. Надежды Арбатовой о взаимоотношениях России и Запада в связи с ситуацией на Украине: "Russia and the West: Facing a New Bipolarity".

"In the context of the Ukrainian crisis and deteriorating Russia –West relations, it comes as no surprise that people are now asking themselves if we are heading towards a new Cold War. However, the Cold War was the name given to a particular if not unique state of international relations. The phenomenon of the Cold War lay in several specific features: first, a clearly defined bipolar structure in international relations; second, a severe East-West ideological and military political confrontation; third, an unprecedented arms race; and fourth, in local or regional conflicts, the superpowers found themselves on opposite sides of the barricades or fought directly against the other superpower’s “client”. Nowadays, none of these features are in place in the post-bipolar international system..."