In this podcast [min 27], Insightview has talked to Sten Rynning about the ongoing tensions between Russia and the West, which many experts describe as the most dangerous crisis since the Cold War. Sten is a professor of War Studies and Vice Dean for Research at the faculty of business and social sciences at the University of Southern Denmark. [SDU].
Sten sees many similarities between today's Ukraine crisis on the one hand and the Munich Agreement in 1938 and the Yalta Conference in February 1945 on the other. Insightview asks Steen whether this should give rise to concern. Steen believes that the EU must learn from Munich in 1938 and get used to deterrence as a political weapon. [Read also the article, The Ukraine crisis and the ghost of Europe, by Sten Rynning.]
Sten works in the War Studies tradition focusing on war, alliance cooperation, and efforts to control and rein in the use of armed force. He has previously said that the EU must get used to deterrence as a political weapon. In this context, Insightview asks Sten whether the time is “five minutes past twelve” in the European Union.
