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eace: it’s wonderful. Everyone likes it as much as the next man, and have none wish to be willfully gloomy at a moment when optimism about the future shape of the world abounds. My thesis in this essay is that we will soon regret the passing of the Cold War. I intend to show that it will not be the by-products of the Cold War — such as the Korean and Vietnam — that we will …

…is truly behind us, therefore, the stability of the past forty-five years is not likely to be seen again in the coming decades. Bibliography · Kort, Michael. The Cold War. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1994. · Walker, Martin. The Cold War: A History. New York: H. Holt, 1994. · Crockatt, Richard. The Fifty Years War. New York: Routledge, 1995. · Leffler, Melvyn P., and Eric Foner. The Specter of Communism. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994. · Microsoft® Encarta® ‘97 Encyclopedia, Deluxe Edition. Microsoft Corporation, 1996.