Lara Marlowe: A discussion hosted by Le Monde brought together thinkers and experts to discuss humanity’s bitter experience of war
Worldview: A discussion hosted by Le Monde brought together thinkers and experts to discuss humanity’s bitter experience of warSmoke rises from the site of a Russia n attack on industrial buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine last week. Photograph: Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times, politicians, historians and commentators have questioned how the war will end.
Napoleon’s wars claimed the lives of 2.5 million people, including more than one million Frenchmen. The French diplomat Talleyrand exploited divisions among great powers to assert the will of his defeated country at the 1814-15 Congress of Vienna. Charles de Gaulle accomplished a similar feat by obtaining a seat on the UN Security Council for France after the second World War.
Pierre Buhler, a former French ambassador who served as a diplomat in Moscow, Warsaw and Washington and now teaches at the Institut des Sciences Politiques, was guest speaker at Le Monde’s event. At the Paris Peace Conference in Versailles in 1919, US president Woodrow Wilson naively thought war could be outlawed, Buhler said. “Wilson said the creation of the League of Nations 99 per cent guaranteed that war could not reoccur. The problem was that the 1 per cent chance materialised.
In the early 1990s, Washington was so focused on post-Soviet Russia and Iraq that it considered Bosnia to be “a little conflict that was the Europeans’ problem”, Buhler said. The late Republican senator Robert Dole made Bosnia a domestic political issue, eventually leading Bill Clinton to impose a fragile solution at Dayton.
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