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The Road to Ukraine - How the West Lost its Way (Paperback)
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The Road to Ukraine - How the West Lost its Way (Paperback)
Series: De Gruyter Disruptions
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of
events that have their origins in World War One. The difficult
existential questions that emerged before and during this conflict
still remain unresolved. Contrary to the claim that wars are not
supposed to happen in Europe or that we live in the era of the End
of History, the experience of Ukraine highlights the salience of
the spell of the past. The failure of the West to take its past
seriously has left it confused and unprepared to deal with the
current crisis. Unexpectedly fashionable claims about the
irrelevance of borders and of nation states have been exposed as
shallow myths. The author argues that the West's self-inflicted
condition of historical amnesia has encouraged it to disregard the
salience of geo-political realities. Suddenly the once fashionable
claims that made up the virtues of globalisation appear threadbare.
This problem, which was already evident during the global Covid
pandemic has reached a crisis point in the battlefield of Ukraine.
History has had its revenge on a culture that believes that what
happened in the past no longer matters. The Road To Ukraine: How
the West Lost Its Way argues that overcoming the state of
historical amnesia is the precondition for the restoration of
global solidarity.
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