The search for the “innocent country” is a symbolic expression that calls into question the widespread idea according to which foreign policy must be “realist”, a concept that feeds on questionable clichés (“if you want peace, prepare for war” , “war is the continuation of politics by other means”). For the “innocent country” the opposite is true: the only realistic policy is that of structural peace which is achieved by introducing practices of sharing, not division, on an international scale. Every other option, precisely from the “realist” point of view, produces no results. Therefore, peace is not at all the option of beautiful souls, but the only possible way to avoid reducing the world to ashes (either due to an atomic war, or due to the effects of climate change). From this perspective, the book analyzes the root causes of the current global disorder, including the systemic asymmetries and inequalities induced by the political-economic system.
