{"id":2651,"date":"2015-01-04T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2023-05-03T23:57:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T03:57:12","slug":"a-new-cold-war-a-costly-unnecessary-and-dangerous-construct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/a-new-cold-war-a-costly-unnecessary-and-dangerous-construct\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Cold War: a costly, unnecessary, and dangerous construct"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pubPostType\">\n<p>\u00a0<strong><a class=\"pdfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/fulltext\/1506KnightASSApanel.pdf\" target=\"_newtab\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u27aa PDF<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0Pr<a href=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/a-new-cold-war-a-costly-unnecessary-and-dangerous-construct\/knight-at-podium-eps\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2668\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-small wp-image-2668\" src=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/knight-at-podium-EPS.jpg\" alt=\"knight at podium EPS\" width=\"100\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>esentation by Charles Knight on a panel sponsored by the Economists for Peace and Security at the Allied Social Sciences Association conference in Boston, MA, 04 January 2015.\u00a0 Others on the panel included: James Carroll, Richard Kaufman, Robert Skidelsky, Allen Sinai, and Stephen Walt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pubPostType\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u27aa PDF\u00a0 \u00a0Presentation by Charles Knight on a panel sponsored by the Economists for Peace and Security at the Allied Social Sciences Association conference in Boston, MA, 04 January 2015.\u00a0 Others on the panel included: James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10167552604075290_133638503385018":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,22,3,9,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-publications","category-regional-security","category-us-defense-policy","category-video-audio-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Cold War? 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