The full article titled "The problem of war" was published in the January/February 2024 (Vol.49#1) issue of the New Zealand International Review
While scholars debated whether wars were declining or just transforming, in February 2022 the world sleepwalked into the biggest inter-state war in Europe since 1945. Despite the state aggressor (russia) being evident, some politicians, analysts and scholars managed to contrive alternative — sometimes truly Orwellian — versions of the motives of the invasion...
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...since Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022, it has become clear that for some leaders like Vladimir Putin inter-state aggression remains a tool to revise the world order and rebuild an empire.
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...Which theory every one of us chooses to pursue in life will collectively shape the world we and our children will live in.
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