The seeds of his Ukraine conflict were visible in the wars in former Yugoslavia, Dr Philip Cunliffe writes in UnHerd <\/p>\n
Dr Philip Cunliffe<\/a>\u00a0writes in UnHerd d<\/em>rawing comparisons between the current Russain-Ukrainian conflict with the wars in former Yugoslavia, in the 1990’s:<\/p>\n ‘Despite their distance in time and space, not to mention qualitative differences of magnitude and geopolitical significance, the conflicts in Ukraine and Bosnia nonetheless remain entangled. Fundamental questions that have surfaced over the past month \u2014 over European strategic autonomy, Germany\u2019s status as a great power, multipolarity and the role of Nato expansion \u2014 all emerged with the war in Bosnia.’<\/p>\n The Bosnian war that finally shattered the Socialist Federal republic of Yugoslavia, started 30 years ago this week.<\/p>\n ‘The war in Bosnia and the brutality that defined it shattered the Long Peace that had prevailed in Europe since the end of the Second World War. Today, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has had a similarly shattering effect on a public that seems to have forgotten the wars in former Yugoslavia. Such collective amnesia \u2014 which also omits the bloody Greek Civil War that ended in 1949 \u2014 evinces a peculiar Eurocentrism, which treats European territory as if it were holy soil consecrated for perpetual peace by European blood, and as if Europe\u2019s bloody history of internecine war makes war less rather than more likely.’<\/p>\n Read the piece in full here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"