Endgame of the Long Cold War

... return to a bad, even traumatic cold-war alliance? An extremely pertinent question is whether there was an illusion about the West; one which returned in the late 1980s and the decade of the 1990s, but had its roots in 1956 and after. There were at least three major sources of the Sino-Soviet split, and one of them was the attitude to the US or a perceived tilt on the part ... ... Eurasian states. A Realist analysis indicates that a common threat and a fairly congruent or compatible domestic model (of state capitalism) make the Eurasian core states share far more substantive geostrategic interests than do any other Asian, Eurasian ...