Neglected Questions on the “Forgotten War”: South Korea and the United States on the Eve of the Korean War by Mark Caprio

“…The breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s prodded open the archival doors of once closed regimes releasing interesting information on Soviet-North Korean-Chinese relations during the Cold War. Documents released from these archives contributed new evidence to enrich our understanding of old questions.2 One such question concerns the origins of the Korean War. …”
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Armies of War Without Uniforms: Mercenaries and Private Military Companies in Russia’s Interventions in Syria and Ukraine by Çağla Mavruk, Ali Gök

“…Factors at the center of the changing perception of security are the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a privatized military industry. …”
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RUSSIA'S PARTICIPATION IN MULTILATERAL MECHANISMS IN EAST ASIA by N. V. Stapran

“…After the end of the Cold War Russia has significantly increased its participation in multilateral mechanisms in the Asia-Pacific region and is clearly trying to become a significant player in regional institution-building. …”
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Doğu Akdeniz’de Soğuk Savaş Dönemi Sovyet Faaliyetleri: Pyadyy Eskadra [Beşinci Filo] ve Türk Boğazları by İsmail KÖSE

“…Soviet rulers very-well aware of that fact, since the first years of the Cold War, tried to compete with Western Blok in the world seas especially on Mediterranean Sea where they recognized as their interest area. …”
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Issues of arms control in transatlantic relations (1963–1975) by V. A. Veselov

“…Against the backdrop of the rapid degradation and destruction of the international security architecture dating back to the Cold War, the problems of arms control in general and the proliferation of nuclear weapons in particular assume new significance. …”
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“Cualquier movimiento revolucionario podrá contar con Cuba”: la construcción del nacionalismo internacionalista cubano durante el Año de la Solidaridad (1966) by Alberto García Molinero

“…Objective/context: This article deepens the conceptualization of the historical phenomenon called "Cuban internationalist nationalism," framed in the so-called Year of Solidarity (1966) and inaugurated with the Tricontinental Conference held in Havana during the height of the Cold War. Metodologia: We propose an interdisciplinary analytical approach, which combines the study of the history of daily life and oral history, embodied in various testimonies, with unpublished documentary sources. …”
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Finland’s Neutrality as Part of Its National Identity by N. Yu. Vezhlivtseva

“…It is widely believed that Finland's neutrality arose during the cold war as a result of a pragmatic assessment of the general world order at that time. …”
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AMERICA IN THE WORLD AFTER HEGEMONY by A. Y. Borisov

“…There are a variety of literatures that illuminate the logic and character of the post -Cold War transformation of the global system. One literature explores the rise and decline of the great powers and the international orders that they establish and dominate. …”
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A memória de um período e a verdade da história by Solon Eduardo Annes Viola, Thiago Vieira Pires

“…In order to do that, this paper analyzes political forces in confrontation, the theoretical basis of the Cold War and its coercive practices. Besides that, it intends to relate the National Security Doctrine to the period of Military Dictatorship and it shows the struggling theories in the national memory reconstitution and the recomposition of the historical truth.…”
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The US Nuclear Policy in the XXI Century: Continuity and Change in the Strategies of the George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump Administrations by E. P. Buzhinsky, V. A. Veselov

“…The authors warn of the risk of causing a recurrence of dramatic events similar to the 1962 and 1983 crises and express the hope that lessons drawn from the Cold War will pave the way for a new compromise.…”
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Securitization of China in the NATO discourse in the late 2010s— early 2020s: Towards a global collective identity by Yu. Yu. Melnikova

“…In order to test this hypothesis, the article traces the evolution of the alliance’s collective self-representations from the Cold War period up to the present day. The author shows that during the Cold War, when NATO positioned itself as a military-political alliance aimed at deterring the ‘Soviet threat’, the alliance’s relations with China developed steadily and constructively despite political and ideological differences. …”
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Who will provide security for the Arctic? by O. V. Aleksandrov

“…The author portrays the contemporary state of the Arctic region, indicates changes which happened in the region after the end of "the cold war", analyzes the role which regional and non-regional institutions can play in the security protection of the Arctic, and also focuses attention on the Russian approach to a problem of security of the Arctic.…”
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Factors of geography and security in the integration construction: the case of East- Asian integration by A. A. Baykov

“…In particular, it is concluded that both the institutional features of the integration in Asia Pacific, and approaches in the field of cooperation between local states have been largely predetermined by the system of military cooperation and military-political agreements, which were formed during the "cold war".…”
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THE PROBLEM OF WORLD ORDER IN WESTERN IR STUDIES by M. V. Soljanova

“…Some researchers insist on the fact that after the end of the cold war, the collapse of the bipolar model of international relations, the world has become unipolar. …”
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De la porte de Brandebourg à La Havane : Wilder, Hitchcock et l’héritage révolutionnaire by Julie Michot

“…The two directors did criticize the revolutionary heritage—but in the midst of the Cold War, they also took an unsupportive attitude towards the proposed model of their adopted country.…”
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SCO as an Effective Tool of Regional Integration: Problems of Expansion by O. Y. Kolegova

“…The article focuses on the formation and subsequent development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which was a response of the association’ states-founders to a dangerous increase the threat of terrorism, separatism and extremism in the post-Cold War period. According to the author, during the last decade, the SCO has demonstrated its potential as an effective tool for regional integration, able to ensure the implementation of its member countries’ key interests. …”
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The Rising Racism in Europe: Example Of Pegida by M. Nail, Alkan

“…The racist approaches has began to take place on international area intensively after Cold-War period in the European Union countries. Generally, when we think about xenophobia and racism in Europe, Germany becomes the first country that comes to mind. …”
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To Speed Our Boys Home... Produce and Conserve. Share and Play Square. Home Front Propaganda and Food during World War II: Rewriting Gender? by Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry

“…This construction had two concomitant consequences: first, the focus on 1950s white suburban housewives in middle-class suburbs during the Cold war, and second, the creation of female solidarity, which, in part, led to feminist demands in the 1960s.…”
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Le passage du fordisme au néolibéralisme au Canada by Jean-Guy Loranger, Gérard Boismenu

“…The main structural changes are the de-linkage of the US dollar from gold, the change of the exchange regime, the end of the cold war, the change of monetary policy, the change of the distribution rate in favour of capital (and financial capital via financial derivatives), the decreasing impact of productivity on real wage and aggregate demand, the increase of the impact of the state on productivity via its expenditures on education, health and other infrastructure expenditures.…”
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Imaginaire de crise dans la planification du RTE-T UE by Noam Greco Monteiro

“…This article demonstrates how transport planning by EU institutions has evolved from an open planning imaginary, shaped by the end of the Cold War and the potential for integration through international trade, to a context of multiple crises that has prompted a rethinking of the territorial imaginary in the planning of Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T). …”
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