Ola Tunander Warns: Europe Risks Trading Peace for Permanent Conflict(RT Interview)

For much of the late 20th century, Europe was a global symbol of what careful diplomacy could achieve. After centuries of devastating wars, culminating in two world wars and the Cold War, European nations reaped what was called the "peace dividend", the prosperity, stability, and growth that followed from managing geopolitical tensions without war. This peace dividend, as Ola Tunander, Emeritus Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, explains in his recent interview with Worlds Apart, was not merely a byproduct of luck. It was the hard-won result of recognizing the catastrophic dangers of escalation, particularly nuclear escalation, and acting with caution, humility, and realism.

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