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Article: The new Holy Alliance. (United States; Soviet Union; international balance of power)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- November 5, 1990
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The balance of power in international relations shifts slowly. Yet there are moments of truth when light is suddenly thrown on the altered landscape, showing not only higher peaks and lower valleys but also perspectives that are entirely new. The Kuwait crisis is acting as such an eye-opener. In August, the unconditional Soviet approval of the United Nations resolution giving its blessing to U.S. intervention was not merely additional proof that Moscow no longer has the ambition to be the leader of the have-not nations. It suggested that the Soviet Union, in keeping with its domestic developments, is ready to take its place in the capitalist concert of nations as one of ...
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