Abstract
[Autom. eng. transl.] After almost eighty years, war has reappeared on the Old Continent. Russia's aggression against Ukraine on 24 February 2022 broke decades of peace and meant that Europe returned to being what it had always been for centuries until the end of the Second World War: 'the place of war' . This happened in the place that represented a pillar of that liberal order that transformed the international system by gathering around it a family of fraternal democracies and weaving a dense web of institutions and treaties guaranteeing cooperation and peace. If peace, therefore, was broken precisely where the conditions for maintaining it were the best possible, what hope is left to prevent force from starting to be the only 'rule of the world' again? The answer to this question passes through the awareness that the possibility of excluding war as a prospect derives precisely from the credibility and survival of that liberal order that Putin's war has put under attack. Rethinking the war, and its place in contemporary European political culture, after Ukraine is the only way not to find yourself faced with a broken design again without any strategy to be able to rebuild it on more solid and more universal foundations.
Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] The place of war and the cost of freedom |
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Original language | Italian |
Publisher | Giunti Editore spa |
Number of pages | 224 |
Volume | 2022 |
ISBN (Print) | 9788830119116 |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Keywords
- Guerra, Ucraina, Russia, Occidente, Ordine Liberale