An interview with me in the Dutch magazine Historisch Nieuwsblad on the question whether all wars eventually end through negotiations, as some suggest.
In Kyiv and Moscow, signs of possible negotiations are carefully emerging. In the past centuries, most conflicts ended through negotiations, but the increasing complexity of wars have made it more difficult, I explain in the Historisch Nieuwsblad.
‘Between the fifteenth and the twentieth century, the number of conflicts that ended through negotiations increased quickly. In the fifteenth century, it was about thirty percent of all conflicts; in the twentieth century almost eighty. In the past century, this number is declining again: now, only about half of all wars end through negotiations or with a peace agreement.’
Read the full interview on negotiations and how wars end in the Historisch Nieuwsblad.