Bukhu: Kugonjetsa Mtendere: Kuchokera Ku Enlightenment To The European Union
Kuyang'ana kwatsopano molimba mtima pankhondo ndi zokambirana ku Europe zomwe zikutsatira lingaliro la kontinenti yogwirizana pakuyesa kuyambira zaka za zana la khumi ndi zisanu ndi zitatu kuti apange mtendere wosatha.
Mtendere wa ndale ku Ulaya kuyambira kale unali wovuta komanso wovuta. Stella Ghervas akusonyeza kuti kuyambira m’zaka za zana la khumi ndi zisanu ndi zitatu, oganiza bwino a ku Ulaya ndi atsogoleri ofunafuna mtendere wosatha analimbikitsa lingaliro la kugwirizana kwa Ulaya.
Polumikiza mbiri yanzeru ndi ndale, Ghervas akutenga ntchito ya anthanthi ochokera kwa Abbé de Saint-Pierre, yemwe adalemba dongosolo lamtendere losatha lazaka za zana la khumi ndi zisanu ndi zitatu, kwa Rousseau ndi Kant, komanso akuluakulu aboma monga Tsar Alexander I, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Robert Schuman, ndi Mikhail Gorbachev. Amapeza mikangano yayikulu isanu kuyambira 1700 yomwe idalimbikitsa omwe amawona masomphenyawa kuti alimbikitse machitidwe amtendere Europe: Nkhondo ya Spanish Succession, Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II, ndi Cold War.
Mphindi iliyonse inkatulutsa “mzimu” wamtendere pakati pa mafumu, akazembe, atsogoleri a demokalase, ndi nzika wamba. Akatswiri opanga mtendere adamanga pang'onopang'ono njira ndi mabungwe oletsa nkhondo zamtsogolo.
Kukankhira kupitiriza kuchokera ku zolinga za Kuunikira, kupyolera mu Concert of Nations ya m'zaka za zana la khumi ndi zisanu ndi zinayi, kupita ku mabungwe a European Union ndi kupitirira apo, Kugonjetsa Mtendere kumasonyeza momwe mtendere monga mtengo unakhazikitsira lingaliro la Ulaya wogwirizana kale EU isanayambe. kukhala.
Masiku ano EU ikudzudzulidwa kwambiri ngati cholepheretsa kudzilamulira komanso kuperewera kwa demokalase. Kuwoneka m'malingaliro anthawi yayitali a mbiri yakukhazikitsa mtendere, komabe, gulu lamayiko aku Europe likuwoneka ngati chinthu chinanso: sitepe pakufuna dziko lopanda chiwawa.0
Harvard University Press, ISBN 9780674975262
Pezani pa: ghervas.net
“Zodabwitsa… Lafotokozedwa mwaluso komanso mwachidwi kwambiri…
Anthony Pagden, Ndemanga ya Zolemba
"Imayang'ana pa zoyesayesa zotsatizana zothetsa nkhondo ku Europe kuyambira zaka za zana la 18 mpaka pano, mutu womwe ukukulirakulira mwachisomo chosalephera, mwanzeru, komanso momveka bwino… ”
Perry Anderson, LONDON KUONA MABUKU
“Kodi Europe yapeza bwanji mtendere popanda kukhala ufumu? Ndi kukongola kodabwitsa kwa kalembedwe ndi kukangana, Ghervas akuyankha funsoli m’buku lochititsa chidwi la mbiri ya anthu aluntha, ndale, ndi ukazembe.”
Ivan Krastev, PAMENE ULAYA
"Buku lofuna kutchuka, lachifundo, komanso lochititsa chidwi pankhaniyi kusaka kwa mtendere wosatha ku Ulaya. M'nkhani yovutayi, Ghervas amatsata 'mizimu' yomwe imatsogolera ndale za nthawi zosiyanasiyana, kudzikuza komwe kumathandiza owerenga kulowa m'mitu ya olemba ndondomeko ndi otsutsa awo kuti aganizire zomwe zingatheke komanso zolepheretsa ndale zapadziko lonse monga momwe amaonera. ”
Christopher Brooke, Kunyada kwa Philosophic: Stoicism and Political Thinking kuchokera ku Lipsius kupita ku Rousseau
Wolemba bukuli
Stella Ghervas ndi wolemba waku Switzerland, wolemba mbiri komanso wolemba nkhani wochokera ku Eastern Europe. Waphunzitsa m'makontinenti anayi ndipo pano ndi Pulofesa wa Mbiri Yachi Russia pa Yunivesite ya Newcastle (UK). Ndiwothandizirana nawo mu dipatimenti ya mbiri yakale ku Harvard University komanso ndi mnzake wa Royal Historical Society.
Zokonda zake zazikulu zili m'mbiri yanzeru komanso yapadziko lonse lapansi yamasiku ano ku Europe, ndikutchulira mwapadera mbiri yamtendere ndi kukhazikitsa mtendere, komanso mbiri yazanzeru ndi zam'madzi zaku Russia.
Iye ndi mlembi kapena mkonzi wa mabuku asanu ndi limodzi mu French ndi English, pakati pawo "Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l'Europe de la Sainte-Alliance” (Paris, 2008), yomwe idapambana Mphotho ya Guizot kuchokera ku Académie française ndi “A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment” (co-ed., London, 2020). Pano akumaliza buku la mbiri yakale ya Black Sea ndi anthology ya malemba ofunikira pa mtendere kuyambira ku Antiquity mpaka lero.
