Ten years ago, a book about the cold war would, in the words of historian Vladislav Zubok, have been a record of “dangerous but ancient times”. Today, with the US again locked in rivalry with Russia and China, and phrases such as “sphere of influence” and “proxy war” back in common use, it is actually the three-decade holiday from great power confrontation that followed the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall that now seems to be the anomaly in need of an explanation.
正如历史学家弗拉季斯拉夫•祖博克(Vladislav Zubok)所说,十年前,一本关于冷战的书还会被视为“危险但久远的时代”的记录。如今,随着美国再次与俄罗斯和manbetx3.0 陷入竞争,“势力范围代理战争”等词语重新成为常用语,反倒是1989年柏林墙(Berlin Wall)倒塌后持续三十年的大国对抗“假期”,如今看起来才成了需要解释的异常现象。