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By Seyom Brown | Sunday, February 25, 2007 | The Boston Globe

Vladimir Putin’s recent anti-US rhetoric has some in diplomatic circles fretting about the possibility of a “new Cold War”. Brown, a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, and author of the forthcoming book “The Higher Realism, ” has a much more complex vision for the next decade. He calls it a “polyarchy — an international system run by numerous and diverse actors with a shifting kaleidoscope of associations and dependencies. “…BS

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