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Usage in a multilateral context
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Usage in the context of Russia–United States/NATO tensions
West2014 Russian annexation of CrimeaIntervention in Eastern UkraineCarnegie Moscow CenterDmitri Trenin
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Usage in the context of China–United States tensions
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Usage during original Cold War
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Overview
- Geopolitical
- Post–Cold War era
- United States
- NATO
- Russia
- China
- Cold War
- Post-Cold War era
- Successor state
- Soviet Union
- Eastern Bloc
- NATO and Russia Russia–NATO relations
- The US and Russia Russia–United States relations
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Communist state
- Chinese Civil War
- Donald Trump
- Multilateral relations Multilateralism
- China–Russia relations
Usage during original Cold War
- John Foster Dulles
- New York Times
- Soviet propaganda
- Fred Halliday
- Alan M. Wald
- David S. Painter
- Noam Chomsky
- 1979–1985 Cold War (1979–1985)
- 1985–1991 Cold War (1985–1991)
- William Safire
- Nixon administration Presidency of Richard Nixon
- Détente
- Gordon H. Chang
- The 1972 meeting in China 1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China
- Richard Nixon
- Mao Zedong
Past predictions
- George Kennan
- US Senate 105th United States Congress
- Expand NATO Enlargement of NATO
- Poland
- Hungary
- Czech Republic
- James M. Lindsay
- Ivo Daalder
- Counterterrorism
- Edward Lucas Edward Lucas (journalist)
Usage in a multilateral context
- The Independent
- Russo-Georgian War
- The Straits Times
- Kor Kian Beng Kor Kian Beng?action=edit&redlink=1
- Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
- South Korea
- North Korea
- Tribunal ruling Philippines v. China
- University of Southern California
- Steven Lamy
- Robert D. English
- Globalisation
- Global warming
- Global poverty
- Inequality Economic inequality
- United Nations General Assembly
- Joe Biden
- David Panuelo
- Micronesia
- Michael Hirsh Michael Hirsh (journalist)
- Superpower
- James Traub
- Non-Aligned Movement
- France
- Associated Press
- William Gumede
- Democracy Works Democracy Works?action=edit&redlink=1
- Christian Breuer
- Unipolar Unipolarity
- Hegemony
Usage in the context of Russia–United States/NATO tensions
- West Western world
- 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea
- Intervention in Eastern Ukraine War in Donbas
- Carnegie Moscow Center
- Dmitri Trenin
- Retaliatory measures International sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Robert Legvold
- Ian Bremmer
- Eurasia Group
- Stephen F. Cohen
- Robert D. Crane
- Alex Vatanka
- Belarus
- Caucasus
- Ministry of Defense of North Macedonia
- Munich Security Conference
- Jens Stoltenberg
- Dmitry Medvedev
- Higher School of Economics
- Harvard University
- E-International Relations
- Russian Foreign Minister Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)
- Sergey Lavrov
- Ideologically bipolar Polarity (international relations)
- The American Conservative
- Andrew Kuchins
- Kremlinologist Kremlinology
- John Sawers
- MI6
Usage in the context of China–United States tensions
- Jed Babbin
- David Gelernter
- Firstpost
- R. Jagannathan
- Kevin Rudd
- United States and China China–United States relations
- Claremont McKenna College
- Minxin Pei
- Monthly Review
- General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
- Xi Jinping
- Lingnan University
- The New York Times
- Mike Pence
- Hudson Institute
- Robert D. Kaplan
- Center for a New American Security
- Boston University
- Yuan Peng
- China Institute of International Studies
- 2008 financial crisis
- Disputes in the South China Sea Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
- Taiwan Strait Taiwan Strait issue
- Niall Ferguson
- China under Xi General secretaryship of Xi Jinping
- Marx Karl Marx
- Lenin Vladimir Lenin
- Tsarism
- Signed their Phase One trade deal China–United States trade war
- The Japan Times
Comparison to the first Cold War
- Barry Buzan
- Mutually assured destruction
- Nuclear deterrence Deterrence theory
- Proxy wars Proxy war
- Autocracy
- Antony Beevor
- Left and right Political spectrum
- Diplomatic agreements Diplomacy
- Geopolitics Geopolitics (journal)
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Nodes289
Edges288
Triples114
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.00692
Components1
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Second Cold War
Top relations
related to In relation to the Russo-Ukrainian war (since 2022) · 28
Second Cold War → Arne Westad, Associate Professor, Berlin, China, Cold War, Cold War II, Dayton, February, Fredrik Logevall, Germany, Gideon Rachman, Greenway, Harvard, In June, In March, Jaro Bilocerkowycz, On, Political Science, Putin, Putin's
related to Second Trump presidency (2025–present) · 28
Second Cold War → Africa, An, Canada, China, Cold War, Denmark, February, Greenland, He, In, International Development, June, Kenya, Kenya's, McFaul, Michael McFaul, NATO, President Trump's, Russia, Stanford University
related to Comparison to the first Cold War · 27
Second Cold War → An, Another, Asia, Barry Buzan, Buzan, China's, Cold War, Cold War II, Europe, Geopolitics, Harrison, Historian Antony Beevor, Historian Hope, Historian Niall Ferguson, International Politics, Joe Biden, October, Putin, Russia, Russia's
related to External links · 12
Second Cold War → Cold War II, Cold War Two, Media, Niall Ferguson, Second Cold War Observatory, Welcome, Wikimedia Commons Quotations, Wikiquote The, Wikiversity, Wiktionary Learning, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2, YouTube
is a · 1
Second Cold War → higher economic
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Important terminology
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Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Second Cold War | is a | higher economic | 0.90 | text |
| globalisation | instance of | was intended to distract political publics from bigger issues | 0.80 | text |
| global warming | instance of | was intended to distract political publics from bigger issues | 0.80 | text |
| global poverty | instance of | was intended to distract political publics from bigger issues | 0.80 | text |
| increasing inequality | instance of | was intended to distract political publics from bigger issues | 0.80 | text |
| Mikhail Gorbachev warned | instance of | notable figures | 0.80 | text |
| against the backdrop of a confrontation between Russia | instance of | notable figures | 0.80 | text |
| the West over the Russo-Ukrainian War | instance of | notable figures | 0.80 | text |
| that the world was on the brink of a new cold war | instance of | notable figures | 0.80 | text |
| or that it was already occurring | instance of | notable figures | 0.80 | text |
| Ukraine | instance of | over Eastern European counties | 0.80 | text |
| Moldova | instance of | over Eastern European counties | 0.80 | text |
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