ABSTRACT
In his infamous Munich speech of February 10, 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin effectively took Russia out of the New World Order. If this was not quite a declaration of renewed Cold War,1 it at least made official the cold peace that Putin had crafted out of Russia’s post-Soviet wreckage. The end of the old Cold War could no longer be viewed as the full or even partial eclipse of Second World ways and means. There was to be no instant-mix global harmony. It finally had to be recognized that Putin’s increasingly bellicose nationalism was a world class problem.
