CHAPTER 2 The War on Ukraine: A Warning from History
Journal: Leiden University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

Based on the run-up to the Ukraine war and the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s, this contribution aims to highlight two points relating to the utility of the past in understanding the future. First, although the past in itself has only limited predictive value, the study of the past and of past conflict may offer insights into the mind-set of today’s actors. As people tend to act according to their beliefs and convictions that are essentially based on an understanding of their personal, and nati