Editor's Note
Journal: Journal of Cold War Studies
Year: 2023

The Cold War ended nearly 35 years ago, but the “Cold War” metaphor has shown remarkable durability in public and scholarly discourse in the years since then. Over the past decade in particular, the metaphor has become almost ubiquitous in discussions of U.S.-Russian relations (and also U.S.-China relations). Journalists and popular writers who use the metaphor of a “new Cold War” are not necessarily concerned about analytical precision. But if scholars are going to use the phrase, they need to