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A Critical Essay on ‘new cold war’ Discourses: The Political Consequences of the ‘cold peace’

  • Analyses & Alternatives
  • Abbr : A&A
  • 2023, 7(3), pp.27~59
  • DOI : 10.22931/aanda.2023.7.3.002
  • Publisher : Korea Consensus Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : September 15, 2023
  • Accepted : October 19, 2023
  • Published : October 31, 2023

Baek, Jun Kee 1

1한신대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study aims to serve as a critical comparison of the currently controversial 'new cold war' discourse. It took three triggers for the ‘new cold war’ discourse to emerge as a major issue in the media and academia and to have real political impact. With the launch of China's ‘Belt and Road’ project and Russia's annexation of Crimea leading to the ‘Ukraine crisis,’ the ‘new cold war’ discourse has begun to take shape. Trump's U.S.-China trade spat has brought the ‘new cold war’ debate to the forefront. The ‘new cold war’ debate is currently being intensified by the Biden administration's framing of "democracy versus authoritarianism" and Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Currently, there is no consensus among scholars on whether the controversial ‘new cold war’ is a new version, or a continuation of the historically defined concept of the Cold War. The term ‘New Cold War’ is less of an analytical concept and more of a topical term that has yet to achieve analytical status, let alone a theoretical validation and systematization, and the related debate remains at the level of assertion or discourse. Through this comparative analysis, I will argue that the ongoing discourse of the ‘New Cold War’ does not have the instrumental explanatory power to analyze the transitional phenomena of the world order today.

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