The Lost Peace Audiobook Libro.fm

The end of the Cold War was an opportunityour inability to seize it has led to todays renewed era of great power competition

1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring global peace as harsh ideological divisions and conflicts began to be resolved Now three decades on that peace has been lost With war in Ukraine and increasing tensions between China Russia and the West great power politics once again dominates the world stage But could it have been different

Richard Sakwa shows how the years before the first mass invasion of Ukraine represented a hiatus in conflict rather than a lasting accordand how since then we have been in a Second Cold War Tracing the mistakes on both sides that led to the current crisis Sakwa considers the resurgence of China and Russia and the disruptions and ambitions of the liberal order that opened up catastrophic new lines of conflict

This is a vital stronglyargued account of how the world lost its chance at peace and instead saw the return of war in Europe global rivalries and nuclear brinkmanship