regional cold war
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concept
A regional cold war is a prolonged period of intense political, military, and ideological rivalry between states within a specific geographic area, characterized by indirect conflict, proxy wars, and strategic competition short of direct large-scale warfare.
Observed surface forms (3)
- regional conflict ×3
- regional aspect of the Cold War ×1
- regional conflict complex ×1
Instances (6)
- Arab Cold War
- Central American conflicts of the 1980s via concept surface "regional conflict"
- Horn of Africa conflicts via concept surface "regional conflict complex"
- Iran–Saudi Arabia rivalry via concept surface "regional conflict"
- Cold War in the Caribbean via concept surface "regional aspect of the Cold War"
- Sahel conflicts via concept surface "regional conflict"