A text that constitutes a unicum in the studies of the history of international relations, crucial for delving not only into the events of Ukraine and its crisis with Moscow, but also for a more general understanding of the events of that central-eastern periphery of Europe which , as Giorgio Cella underlines, has been seriously neglected too many times throughout the history of the Old Continent.
The volume, in a constant reference between historical dynamics and geopolitical current affairs, proves to be a useful tool for the analysis of the complex phenomena that have led, over the centuries, to the current conflict in Ukraine, to date the most important political-military crisis on European soil of the 21st century. A long trajectory that from the time of Herodotus reaches up to Euromajdan, where careful historical reconstruction intersects with effective interpretative keys. The author also brings out a cultural mosaic of great interest, ranging in an erudite way over the centuries, the events and peoples of this crossroads of religions, empires and identities: from Kievan Rus’ to the Ukrainian Cossacks, from the disputes between Russians, Poles and Turks until the post-Soviet era and the process of NATO’s eastward enlargement.
