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The article refers to the new cold war produced by the international situation and especially the Soviet-American relations during 1980s. Certainly, if one were to judge merely by the rhetoric of official pronouncements emanating from the superpower's capital cities, most notably Washington D.C., such a conclusion would appear eminently sensible. The moderation of the detente years has been replaced by a schema which depicts the Soviet Union as an evil empire, an historical aberration, which lies and cheats and is responsible for every hot spot in the international system. The Soviet Union has been only moderately more restrained in its portrayal of the Republicans as war-mongering agents of the most reactionary elements of the imperial military-industrial complex of the U.S. But sociological analysis proceeds from a depiction of the social context and as such any consideration of the worth of the new cold war thesis should begin with some regard for the structure of the international society within which it supposedly occurs. |
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