SOLVE magazine Issue 04 2022 | Page 35

GLOBAL SECURITY

WAR

AND

PEACE

ONLINE

PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION : SHUTTERSTOCK / AIDAN GIFKINS
Two decades into the 21st century and hopes that a more interconnected world would be less partisan have long been dashed by global terrorism and conflicts in the Middle East , Afghanistan , Africa and now Ukraine . Did the West delude itself with the brief post-Cold War calm ? In the Middle East and Africa , are we paying for the wounds and crimes of a colonial era that most Europeans don ’ t even remember ? Can wiser policies come from better understanding such threads of cause and effect ?
ARTICLE BY BRAD COLLIS
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