Meaning of the Cold War:-A cold war is a state of conflict between two nations that does not involve direct military action. The conflict is primarily pursued through economic and political actions, including propaganda, espionage and proxy wars, where countries at war rely on others to fight their battles. The term cold war was rarely used before 1945, and some credit 14th century Spaniard Don Juan Manuel for first using it when referencing the conflict between Christianity and Islam.
However, critics say he used the word for tepid in Spanish, claiming the term actually originated in a mistranslation of his work in the 19th century. George Orwell used the term in an essay at the end of World War II. In his work “You and the Atomic Bomb”, published October 19, 1945, Orwell contemplated a world living in the shadow of the threat of nuclear war, warning of a “peace that is no peace”, which he called a permanent “cold war”.
Relevance of the Cold War:
The Cold War divided Europe and the world in two opposing spheres of influence for four and a half decades. The emergence of the United States as a dominant international actor following the Second World War was shaped by the rivalry with the Soviet Union, which, in turn, defined its new global posture on the basis of the competition with America.
Cold War necessities came to dictate both superpowers’ foreign and defence policies for decades. While historians agree on assessing the Cold War as an important chapter in the turbulent history of the twentieth century, far less consensus exists among analysts on the contemporary relevance of the bipolar conflict.
In other words, is the Cold War still relevant today, or was it just a passing – albeit important – historical phase? Is there, or not, a legacy of the Cold War that continues to define the international system?
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