From the war in Ukraine to the unrest in the Middle East , the West is faced with threats to its security that are less clear-cut than our confrontation with the Soviet Union , and also less predictable and much harder to understand . Rifkind is a former Russian foreign secretary . Fall of Berlin Wall was overwhelmingly positive , Malcolm Rifkind writes . But not all the side-effects were , he says . Rifkind : Latin America facing new confrontation with Yugoslavia .
Rifkind is a former Russian foreign secretary . Fall of Berlin Wall was overwhelmingly positive , Malcolm Rifkind writes . But not all the side-effects were , he says . Rifkind : Latin America facing new confrontation with Yugoslavia .