Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...

Washington wanted to replace a European system of balance of power and spheres of influence with an effort to allow Europeans to freely ... The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 by Vladislav ...

But the Biden administration had a jaded view of Lebanon from the beginning. During 20 years of cold peace between Israel and Lebanon, US officials watched Hezbollah, Iran’s most powerful ally ...