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The Odd Advantage of Reliable Enemies
Brilmayer, Lea
Brilmayer, Lea
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Abstract
One of the nice things about the Cold War was that we could nearly always tell who were our friends and who were our enemies. There were certain countries we could more or less count on to take our side, and others that regularly opposed us. It is, however, more complicated now. If we could previously take the opposition of countries in the Communist bloc for granted, we are now able to look to those same countries for occasional support. With such nations potentially willing to side with us on selected issues, we have fewer "reliable enemies."