Europe Has Discovered: From Strategic Loneliness to the Test of Violence

At the end of the cold war, the Europeans were, as a whole, strengthened in their neo-Kantian project of building a world where norms and trade would have made war impossible. They felt that the dynamics inspired by the founding fathers in the aftermath of the Second World War would gradually spread, not only in their neighbourhoods, but eventually throughout the planet. A post-historical world would occur, which would make the belligenic concep…