Title: Genealogy of the term - Cold War Origins
Headings: Cold War Origins - Genealogy of the term
Cold War Origins - Genealogy of the term
Content: Three such Cold War  power configurations would emerge: the United States, the Soviet Union,  and, potentially, China–East Asia. Highly suggestive,  Orwell's grim scenario thus reserved "cold war" for  the relationship between the powerful and the weak, probably an  extrapolation from fascist examples of intimidation and expansion during  the 1930s. His use of the term had little effect; but the notion of three  global hegemons would reappear three years later in his classic novel of  dystopian drabness, 1984, where Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia engage in seemingly useless wars on  the periphery in the name of meaningless propagandistic slogans, language  having been reduced to a political instrument of pure manipulation. Orwell's geopolitical vision was a postwar version of an  idiosyncratic work that appeared in the United States in 1941, James  Burnham's The Managerial Revolution. Here, another tripartite division of superstates, each impossible to  conquer, is envisaged (Japan, Germany, and the United States). Enduring in  its fundamentals, the system would nevertheless feature a myriad of  diffuse conflicts, hard to get a grip on because they would be undeclared,  their origins, beginnings, and endings forever mired in obscurity. Orwell's peace that is no peace, already discernible in this  account, will become more explicit once Burnham had moved from renegade  Trotskyist to relentless cold warrior. By 1947 he was arguing that a sort  of World War III had broken out even before the second one was over, a  conflict triggered in April 1944 by the outbreak of civil war in Greece.