The Western Balkans in the context of security challenges

Former presidents Bill Clinton (left) of the United States and Jacques Chirac (center) of France, and German chancellor Helmut Kohl (right) sign the Dayton Agreement in Paris, on December 14, 1995.  [Michel Gangne/AP]

Hubris is the characteristic of demagogues and autocrats. Chaos, paralogism and the eclipsis of democracy should not become the antidote to political ethos, symmetry, logic and harmony. In the Bible's, the Talmud's and the Koran's historic gaia, the oikos of the Israelis and the Palestinians, the ellipsis of anthropocentric policies and the catachresis of polemical rhetoric and practices, should not become the canon. Peace and empathy cannot be an anathema.

Tragedy and catastrophe prevail in the Ukrainian polis -martyrs of Mariupol, Kyiv, Kherson, Kharkiv and many others. Episodes of despotic apophasis and the antidrome to democracy. The pandect of Russia's pathetic polemics result from monocratic and autocratic policies. They aim at expanding the spheres of energy, emporium and echo the geopolitics aiming at the dichotomy of Europe. Peace can be elliptic, shattered or...

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