Pankaj Mishra Quotes

During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

There will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, balances of power ...

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

… this whole Near East problem is not just an Arab-Israeli dispute but a problem of the influence of the West as opposed to that of the Soviet. We want no wars, but we do not want a Sovietized world.

The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don't agree. If you look at the Cold War, you could argue that a war was bound to happen between the Soviet Union and its allies and the United States and its allies, but it didn't.

You've got to remember the Cold War was a very real thing then, so the relationship with the United States was very, very important. As was the relationship that I was developing with China: that was something I did very much. And they weren't conflicting things.

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.

Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

Great powers engage.

Containment was merely appeasement on the installment plan.

The overall or political objective is to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and British Empire.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

We are running out of enemies. We are down to Fidel Castro and Kim Il Sung.

These four mongrels are supposed to be our defense against Communism and the extremes of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East.

The Cold War didn't end. It was won.

The problem is not so much that they are Communists as it is that they are Russians.

We won the Cold War because we showed nuclear vigilance and diligence.

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world.

The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.

President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen.

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.