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No Way Out
Now that Ukraine doesn’t seem to be working out as hoped, and the war in Gaza appears to be going nowhere violently, there are the first voices calling for a “solution,” for “negotiations,” for “cease-fires” and “armistices,” and perhaps other clever initiatives that I have missed. Meanwhile, efforts continue around the world in Ethiopia, in Myanmar, in Sudan, in West Africa generally, in Mali and in half a dozen other places, to find “a solution.” But supposing there isn’t a solution?
Or rather, consider that the whole edifice of crisis management and resolution which was put in place since the end of the Cold War, with its cool normative Liberal design language, and has now had thirty years to prove itself, essentially hasn’t delivered. Trivially, this may be because the ideas behind it were wrong—which they were—but at a more profound level, it may be because many of the problems of the world have no solution anyway, or at least nothing that we in the West would agree to call a “solution.” Let’s look at that point in more detail.
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