This approach to #peacemaking is as helpful as pouring vodka on a raging fire. #Expansionist #wars end only in one of two ways: the #aggressor is defeated, as #Hitler reminded us in 1945, or the cost of continuing outweighs the gains, as Russia learned in #Afghanistan in 1989. There is no third way.

https://kyivindependent.com/dr-strangelove-or-how-the-west-taught-putin-to-stop-worrying-and-love-his-bombs/

#RussianAggression #RussianInvasion #HybridWar #StandWithUkraine #Ukraine

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@histodons

Over the #earlymodern period different practices to manage conflicts and guarantee peace agreements were established that Laufs and Wenzel will introduce to us. Thus, illustrating the ingenuity but also the limits of #emdiplomacy. (6/6)

#peacemaking #peace #EarlyModernEurope #conflictmanagement

@histodons

But diplomats did not only try to settle conflicts, they tried to prevent them! Peace treaties and truces were provided with treaty sureties that aimed at safeguarding the agreements. Negotiating these sureties could be difficult and conflictual, too. (5/6)

#emdiplomacy #EarlyModernEurope #peacemaking #peace #earlymodern

@histodons

Together Laufs and Wenzel tackle the important question of conflict management. How did #emdiplomats deal with conflicts? What practices were established?

Key to #earlymodern conflict management were mediation and arbitration as practices with a long tradition going back to the Middle Ages. Here, a third party tried to mediate and help find a compromise between the conflicting parties. (4/6)

#emdiplomacy #history #EarlyModernEurope #mediation #peacemaking