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Perhaps we were lulled into complacency by the exuberance of the end of the Cold War. It was a deception brought on by an unusually positive historical continuum. First, America and the Allies won World War II; then, 45 years later, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, we defeated communism too. After that, maybe we believed the world would be forever free of conflict. Some thinkers called it the end of history. Well, history did not die. It came roaring back. The old conflicts did indeed wither, but new and virulent ones arose...
...strike, only to be marginalized, causing him to leave the bureau. Another prescient voice was that of Harvard professor Samuel Huntington, whose book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order suggested that culture and religion would be the sources of conflict in the post-Cold War world. Huntington didn't limit this to war between the West and Islam, though he did single out "Islamic civilization" as potentially having significant friction points with the West because of its population explosion and the rise of religious fundamentalism. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
...They may have winced at his blunders in Iraq and elsewhere, but many Indians welcomed President Bush's embrace, which strengthened ties between the world's largest democracies to an unprecedented degree after decades of Cold War estrangement. Singh faced opposition at home from parties skeptical of close ties with the U.S., but staked his political reputation on the growing relationship - his government was almost deposed by parties of the left protesting a nuclear-technology deal he concluded with the Bush Administration. (See pictures of Barack Obama visiting Asia...
...ability to "promote peace, stability and development in that region." In New Delhi, this was read as a sign of U.S. acceptance of China viewing South Asia - India's neighborhood - as part of its own sphere of influence. Chellaney saw the statement as a "return to a kind of Cold War thinking where two great powers can dictate terms to a lesser one." China's long-standing border disputes with India, and its building up of the Pakistani military, makes many in New Delhi reluctant to welcome Beijing as a benign presence. Indeed, some fear India is being encircled...
...Wall Came Down," Romesh Ratnesar asserts that Reagan's biggest weapon during the Cold War was to use diplomacy and that "Obama's challenge now is to do the same" [Nov. 9]. Unfortunately, unlike communist states, Iran follows the theological-political dogma of radical Islam, which aspires to have all others submit to that ideology. Radical Islam sanctions death for the greater cause. Conversely, communism is based on a secular ideology, and Cold War leaders didn't follow a doctrine that supports dying for the cause. Diplomacy in our current situation may end up being...