While conflict , even confrontation between east and west has continued throughout the postwar period , as have conflicts between the two blocs and between metropolitan and third world countries , in the periods of the Col War , greater emphasis was placed upon such confrontation than at other times.
This did not mean that the stress was upon such confrontation rather than upon negotiation :Â this meant that above all such confontation was viewed in the context of this overriding one and all were subordinated to the concept of the initial Codl War Conflict.
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