30 years after The end of the Cold War: Russia and the West - Results, lessons, new challenges
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Perestroika, initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in the former USSR, in order to democratize it In accordance with modern times and thus avoid the terminal crisis of the Soviet system, demanded the end of the sterile and dangerous confrontation with the West . By putting an end to the Cold War, the Soviet leader also hoped to secure his country's integration into the collective security and cooperation structures within the framework of the "European Common House". Now, thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the relations between Russia's Vladimir Putin and the West are still marked by a climate of tension and mistrust. Why?
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Dr. Andrey Grachev, historian, political scientist and Russian journalist, was consultant and deputy director of the international department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (1974-1987), as well as adviser and spokesman of President Mikhail Gorbachev until to the resignation of the latter in December 1991.
Dr. Grachev subsequently worked as senior researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (Germany) and at St Antony's College ( University of Oxford), as well as visiting professor at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Paris VIII Saint-Denis University and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Currently, he is editorialist at Novaya Gazeta (Russia) and chairman of the scientific committee of the New Policy Forum. Dr. Grachev is the author of numerous publications throughout the world, including Political extremism, Moscow (1982); The True Story of The End of the USSR, Editions du Rocher: Paris (1992); The fall of the Kremlin. The nonsense empire, Hachette: Paris (1994); Final Days.The Earth and Destiny, Editions du Rocher: Paris (2004); Gorbachev's Gamble.Préface by Hubert Védrine. Armand Colin: Paris (2011); Russia's past is unpredictable. Diary of a thaw child, Alma publisher: Paris (2014); A new pre-war? Hyperpowers at the hyperpoker, Alma publisher: Paris (2017).
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