Did they fail to secure his release because cold-war politics rendered him inconvenient?
Italian politics is a perfect illustration of what happens when you move from cold-war politics to globalization politics and the parties don't quite adjust.
Her eye-opening journey blends Nordic history, cold-war politics, nation-building and the rise of Nazism.
"The cold-war politics that divided our land and people, and plunged us into a fratricidal war, are now evaporating."
Korea must not remain the world's only land still partitioned by cold-war politics.
Demagogues and cold-war politics threatened freedom of speech.
This time, however, he sets this relationship against the backdrop of cold-war politics in the Middle East.
The right-wing coalition rode to power earlier this year on a wave of voter revulsion against the corrupt old guard of cold-war Italian politics.
Once such global constraints as cold-war politics were removed, this argument goes, the myriad sores that had festered untended for decades re-emerged.
These laws were never enforced because cold-war politics intervened.