Origins Of Cold War

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"One's interpretation of how and why the Cold War began will depend, in large part, on which of two views of the meaning of the Cold War is given greater credence: was it fundamentally an ideological conflict, or a balance-of-power struggle? Was it a unique dialectic event in history - a collision of belief systems that can never recur in the same way again? Or was it one instance of a recurrent pattern in the history of states?
Halle places himself firmly on the side of the balance-of-power viewpoint:
It is essentially true, them, to say that since the end of the eighteenth century four great wars have been fought to maintain or restore the European balance of power. The fourth was the Cold War, which began almost immediately (...)"

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