On Stephen Kotkin, ‘Myth of the new Cold War’, Prospect First Drafts, March 28, 2008
I am sorry to inject a bit of confusion, but, actually, both Kotkin and Edward Lucas (an ex-colleague many years ago in the BBC World Service) could be right in whether there is a new cold war. It depends on perceptions. And the central players in the new cold war may not be America and Russia. More