{"id":2457,"date":"2017-01-03T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/the-cold-war-isnt-back"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:41:52","slug":"the-cold-war-isnt-back","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/the-cold-war-isnt-back","title":{"rendered":"The cold war isn't back"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cold War Isn't Back. So Don't Think Like It Is.<\/h1>\n

Fears of Russia are already distorting our understanding of politics.
Let's not let them ruin 2017.<\/h2>\n

By Ivan Krastev, chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies, permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and contributing opinion writer.<\/p>\n

The New York Times \/ Opinion Pages<\/a><\/p>\n

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