The end of superpower conflict was ‘a fantasy era’. The West underestimated Russia and China – the cold wars are back
- Written by: Peter J. Dean, Director, Foreign Policy and Defence, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
“This is a book about a global shock that took Washington by surprise: the revival of superpower conflict,” reads the introduction of New Cold Wars, by Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times journalist David E. Sanger.
From the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he writes,
there was a sense of...