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The ideological divide which informs the current superpower competition, and the nuclear context in which that competition takes place, reinforce the tendency of the superpowers to view other actors in the system with covetous eyes. These two factors also have a great bearing on how the United States and the Soviet Union are perceived by the Third World states.
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