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Massimo Bellotto
1. The Context of Change
The so-called cold war between the two super powers which maintained leadership of the most developed countries took place for forty years in an implicit way, due to the mutual deterrence of atomic weapons that was based on the competing accumulation of scientific and technological know-how, on persuasion and building consensus. At the end of the 80s, with the waning of communist power and the prevalence of capitalistic-democratic power, …