Singer suggested this dwindling supply of rare earth elements could be a feasible backdrop for a new Cold War.
Many Arab papers see the superpower confrontation over Syria as the start of a new Cold War by proxy, although one commentator says the Russian and Chinese positions could change.
Some see it as a mission that will either carve out a new post-cold war role for the organisation or, if the alliance stumbles, underline its lack of purpose.
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Senior Administration figures like National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, moreover, have described Moscow's constructive role as the stuff of which a new Post-Cold War "world order" can be made, based fundamentally on U.S.-Soviet joint leadership of the international community in resisting aggression.
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But WikiLeaks, which is known for publishing state secrets, apparently has found a new home for its files: A Cold War bunker, inside a Swedish mountain, that's been described as fit for a "James Bond" movie.
Spyridon Mitsotakis is a history student at New York University specializing in the Cold War.
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Speaking earlier, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson said the alliance had to shelve Cold War reflexes and be prepared to face a new war on global terrorism.
It starts with explaining to Russia and our European friends and allies, that Russia is not the enemy of the United States ... that the attitude of mutually assured destruction is a relic of the cold war and that we must address the new threats of the 21st century if we are to have a peaceful continent and a peaceful world.
Five years ago, when I first addressed this assembly, the Cold War had only just ended and the transition to a new era was beginning.
Japan and Australia, sponsors of rival grand commissions when a potential nuclear-free window opened at the cold war's end, have joined forces to set up a new one.
Alexandra Hamlet, who won awards for her first novel, a Cold War thriller called The Right Guard, says terrorism has created a new fiction genre - and describes her own work as "intellectual suspense".
This should have been done nearly a decade ago, when the Cold War ended, the Soviet Union broke up into 15 new nations and Czechoslovakia split itself into two countries.
On the other hand, a new doctrine of economic deterrence has emerged, safeguarding world order just as effectively as MAD did during the Cold War.
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The new geopolitical situation partly explains this political shift: the old demons of the Cold War have vanished a long time ago and, similarly, troubles in former Yugoslavian republics are now part of the past.
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