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Article: The Cold War.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 9, 1993
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THE cold war, as Martin Walker remarks, girdled the earth more comprehensively than either of the two world wars. A pair of superpowers glared at each other from either side of divided Germany, divided Vietnam and divided Korea. South America and sub-Saharan Africa, which had largely escaped the world wars, were sucked into its maw. The superpowers fought or arranged proxy conflicts in countries as far apart as Angola and Turkey, Nicaragua and Yemen. For most of its duration, the cold war's ideological scope was as wide as its geographical one: it marked a clash between different ways of organizing mankind.
At the end of his book, however, Mr Walker offers an ...