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Article: A Cold Peace: America, Japan, Germany, and the Struggle for Supremacy.
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- The Washington Monthly
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- July 1, 1992
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A Cold Peace: America, Japan, Germany, and the Struggle for Supremacy. Jeffrey E. Garten. T/mes, $22.During the war against Iraq, George Bush built a consortium of like-minded democracies and held it together, with impressive results. He and the Europeans did it again following the coup in Moscow, quite possibly saving democracy for the Soviet people. Indeed, Bush's one major accomplishment as president has been to show what the great democracies can do when they choose to act in concert. True, his New World Order was held together by phone calls and presidential charm rather than treaties and institutions, but for a while it sure looked promising.
While they ...