Missed opportunities

Communist relic: Runners passing the former Berlin Wall during the '100 Meilen Berlin 2014' marathon event. During the Cold War, the Berlin Wall symbolised the implacability of the divisions and the intractability of the problems back then. - AFP

Amid loose talk of a new Cold War in the West, the realities are still very different in a much more dangerous world today.

WHEN the decades-long Cold War dissipated more than 20 years ago, there was a collective sigh of relief.