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The Cold War is irrevocably dead. Even if a coup d’état were to restore the totalitarian government in Russia, with the old Communist bureaucracy back in control, the other former Soviet and East European states would never reconstitute the Warsaw Pact, and the military threat which underlay it will not reappear. Nor could the Russian economy, now reliant on the West, afford to renew the challenge.
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© 1993 Richard Clutterbuck
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Clutterbuck, R. (1993). Patterns of Future Conflict. In: International Crisis and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379015_15
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