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This chapter sets forth the basic themes of the book: (1) the post-breakdown of the collaborative aspects of the Cold War US–Soviet “double-containment”; (2) the risks of Russian backlash and US/NATO hypertrophy; (3) the collapse of the Cold War theory of mutual assured destruction (MAD) which claimed that mutual fears of total nuclear annihilation would prevent war between nuclear powers.
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Gardner, H. (2019). The Cold War Is Dead! Long Live the Cold War!. In: IR Theory, Historical Analogy, and Major Power War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04636-1_1
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