UJ Confucius Institute Seminar on ‘The New Cold War? Or the Continuation of the Old Cold War’ — Lecture by Professor Alex Mazyaev

Upon the fall of the Soviet Union, relations between the West and the Russian federation could be described as an awkward embrace at best. But over the past decade or so, the two sides have gone from this state of relative cordiality to one of mutual suspicion, leading many to conclude that we are in the epoch of a New Cold War characterised by proxy warfare, espionage and machinations around trade. What is at the root of this East-West strain? Why have the West and Moscow not finally found one another despite somewhat promising signs at the dawn of a post-USSR era? And are we indeed in a new Cold War, indeed did the previous one ever end? These are some of the issues dealt with in this timely seminar by one of the leading experts on Russian foreign policy, Alex Mazyaev.

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