2015: A Time of Trouble and a Time of Opportunity

... Berlin Wall, and the adoption of the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, a document that promised a fair and stable European security ... ... resulted in the confrontation with China. Thanks to the shrewd diplomacy of Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon in the early 1970s,... ... allies, the Soviet Union had to confront the United States and the West all over the world, and China in the East. The Soviet ... ... I am sure that the old system cannot be restored, even if the OSCE steps up its activity. This conclusion is based on my own ...