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Svetlana Savranskaya et al., « Chapter 8. The Helsinki summit, Paris CSCE summit, and the war in the Gulf, 1990 », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.3m65zs
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When Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, the new post-Cold War relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union encountered its first real test. It was especially crucial for the Soviet side, confronting Mikhail Gorbachev with a difficult challenge to his foreign policy of new thinking. Would he abandon a traditional Soviet ally in the Middle East and side with his Cold War opponents—the United States and the U.N. coalition—or would he play the traditional superpower game, tryin...