International Crisis Group

Chris Patten’s contribution to the Future of Conflict collection of 20 essays for Crisis Group’s 20th Anniversary.

The crystal ball is cracked; the sources are thin; the extrapolations dubious. But it is not much easier to remember our recent history, nor to work out what exactly has been going on. The closer we are to the past, the more opaquely past it seems.

FULL ESSAY (Via Crisis Group)

Photo: MAGNUM/Jerome Sessini

Source: Crisis Group