0 a major, especially political, struggle between nations which involves military threats but not fighting -- สงครามเย็น
They must advance the cause of socialism while fighting a cold war against the only existing 'socialist' nation.
These differences set the stage for the transition from war to cold war in the borderlands.
In many ways, the end of the cold war has thrown some of the costs of the post-1945 peace settlement into even sharper relief.
The fierce confrontation with communism in the early cold war years played a very important role in this remarkable transformation.
The period of the cold war also showed that war inside states does not mean that outside states are not involved in some fashion.
The different national cultures of the cold war prevented more thorough and wide-ranging discussions.
But both were external forces; internal governmental concerns usually played a more important role than the cold war struggle.
The implications of this line of argumentation may be lost on most readers today: the cold war had just begun, anticommunism was a dominating sentiment.
