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$ The ‘core’ of the Cold War system became increasingly set in stone, although
within the ‘superpower condominium’ the arms race continued.
$ But that core became more and more irrelevant as the ‘periphery’, including the
Third World but also to some extent Europe, became more fluid and fragmented
and less controllable from the centre.
$ Thus the Cold War became a tug-of-war between centripetal and centrifugal forces,
with the core becoming increasingly irrelevant to the day-to-day agenda of
international politics and the periphery increasingly dominating that agenda.
THREE DEVELOPMENTS
1. Nuclear arms control comes back into fashion
$ The ‘baroque arsenal’ is increasingly seen as unthinkable; scenarios of ‘nuclear
winter’, etc., in the 1980s
$ The INF Treaty sets the scene not only for nuclear arms agreements but also
conventional arms control
$ However, attempts to develop detailed new agreements on banning testing and
on non-proliferation bump up against both old and new constraints
$ The Clinton Administration and defence policy — rethinking or drift?
$ Two types of potential proliferation: (a) smaller powers (India, Pakistan, etc.)?;
(b) non-state actors (incl. terrorists)?
These developments are still in the melting pot: power being reconfigured as we speak