The Pathways to the war in Europe | Os caminhos da guerra na Europa
Journal: Political Observer | Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Política (Portuguese Journal of Political Science)
Year: 2023

War broke out in Europe when Europeans were convinced of their lasting peace, based more on ideas than reality. Pacifism, the dream of Europeans in the 60s and 70s, was replaced by the violence of conflict. Analysts, historians, militaries, sociologists and other commentators on war have found it difficult to deal with the novelty of a nationalist war of defense in a global world. The global turn in political theory has been put to the test. In its analytical capacity, in the normative projectio