Rarely has the present receded into the past more quickly than in the years that followed the end of the Cold War. Normally, people sense a continuity; even after great wars that break it do they feel an urge to come to grips with their recent experience by relating it to their new condition. No such urge has grown out of the sudden and unexpected denouement of the East-West conflict, breeding instead the bizarre notion that history itself may have ended.1 Although a proliferation of crises soon exposed the fallacy of such a notion, the forty-year rivalry has continued to fade from memory. That a contest of such intensity and magnitude could safely be relegated to oblivion ‘would seem too good to be true; even if it were so, the reasons why would all the more cry for an explanation. [download]
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