New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- The international system born after World War II was not perfect, but it represented a framework of stability and cooperation that, with all Its flaws, was able to prevent nuclear world war. Despite the multiple conflicts that marked the Cold War and the period after the implosion of the USSR, the international order suffered conflicts and wars of high and low intensity that were, in fact, proxy wars between the two super powers and their blocks, albeit, never reaching the point of nuclear Armageddon. Dispute resolution seemed to be channeled through a system governed by multilateral rules and agreements that allowed to lower tensions, although not resolving the irreconcilable and deeply-rooted enmity.

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