Launch of the book A Guerra Quente e a Paz Fria

On November 16, at 6:15 pm, at Almedina Estádio Cidade de Coimbra, the book «A Guerra Quente e a Paz Fria» by Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro will be launched.

The presentation of the work will be in charge of Maria Raquel Freire, Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and researcher at the Center for Social Studies.

With the presence of Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro (author), assistant professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and researcher at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra.

Synopsis

In A Guerra Quente e a Paz Fria, Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro analyzes the origins of the conflict and how a cold peace, which made the war look like a mirage, turned into a hot war.

In this book, the author states that «reviewing the past in order to understand the present does not, however, serve to justify Putin's choice» and, therefore, shows us his path and his vision of Russia, Ukraine and the enlargement of NATO, as well as taking us through the intricacies of the differentiation, not always obvious, between conflict - evident in a cold peace that never stabilized - and war - with all the moral justifications with which what Erasmus defines as the demand for an “ancient and forgotten right” because “war is sweet for those who have not experienced it”.

More than a hot reading of the harsh reality of the invasion of Ukraine, this book leaves us with a careful reading of the post-Soviet world, the result of years of research, so that we can all understand and make «the outline of an answer».