War and peace

War and peace: political theory of armed conflict, deterrence, and ius ad bellum.

Political theory of war and peace has its references in Thucydides, Machiavelli (Art of War), Hugo Grotius (De jure belli ac pacis, 1625), Kant (Perpetual Peace, 1795), Clausewitz (On War), Michael Walzer (Just and Unjust Wars, 1977). The 21st century with Russian invasion of Ukraine, Middle East conflicts, US-China tensions has revived the debate.

Articles on war and peace (1)

Russia and Western Democracies
Timeline of a hybrid war against the rule of law. A sequence of cases stretching from Euromaidan to the Baltics: how Moscow combines propaganda, energy pressure, cyber-attacks, espionage and opaque funding to erode democratic trust without necessarily declaring war.

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