Ukraine 24.02 - Den nye verdensorden

by Jens Worning, Kasper Kaufmann (Editor)

Den Kolde Krig sluttede fredeligt... Troede vi indtil den 24. februar 2022, da Rusland invaderede Ukraine. For mange europæere var det en øjeåbnende begivenhed. og datoen 24. 02 kom til at rumme sin helt egen fortælling. Men hvorfor havde vi europæere ikke set det komme?

Ukraine er arealmæssigt det største lan i Europa, men indtil 24. 02 fyldte det ikke meget i vores bevidsthed. Heller ikke selvom Rusland annekterede Krim i 2014. Men nu mærker vi de øgede priser og udfordringen for klimaet.

Hele det globale samspil rulles ud i denne bog, der viser, hvordan vores europæiske selvfortælling ramler sammen med Rusland, men nok så vigtigt også med de realpolitiske forhold. Europa skal indfinde sig i en situation, hvor krig, klimaudfordringer og internationale relationer er de Legoklodser, som stormagterne må bygge den nye verdensorden af.

Da 1989 -fortællingerne gik over sidste udløbsdato, var det optakten til 24. 02, men vi så det ikke i Europa.

Jens Worning giver en introduktion til de geopolitiske forhold, der ledte op til 24. 02. Det er et kort og godt overblik til forståelse af den internationale situation, krigen i Ukraine og ikke mindst den nye verdensorden, vi europæere skal indfinde og i.

156 pages, Hardcover

Published February 17, 2023

Reviews

[Bernhard Nordentoft · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vildt flot rundtur i Ruslands historie fra sidst i 80'erne til i dag. Og gode bud på hvor det aggressive vanvid har sit udgangspunkt.
Fantastisk at få Jens egne erfaringer fra lange ophold og mange rejser til forskellige egne af Rusland siden dengang.
Godt skrevet og absolut det stykke danske litteratur, som kaster mest lys over det sære gigantiske land og dets aggressive ledelse.

[SVRosenmeier · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kort og rimelig præcis. OK bog til en hurtig indføring i baggrunden for Ruslands invasion af Ukraine.

[Mark Will Never Cry · Rating 1 out of 5]

World leaders: This is the time to unite against something bigger.
Jens Worning: Yeah, I think that de-globalisering is the best idea.

This is in short about this book.
Now in long.
I read this book, because I kept seeing it, but I could not approach the topic of the war, because personal attachment to your home country is not great, when you are trying to be involved in the world outside your small community. However, this book was just not great. I hated the points, where the author was argumenting for himself and the parts where he was just going through different history points were okay? I will never understand the reasoning behind calling two slavic leaders, who were not princes, princes (Ivan the Terrible and Volodymyr). I also think that the author never came to terms with the fact that the USSR and Russia are, in fact, two different countries.
This book kind of fulfilled its purpose, it explained (in a way) how war began and why. But this book also failed to really look into so many things. It was not composed well, it seems like a couple of sandwiches of “this is my opinion”, “oh, history” and another opinion. History parts usually did not help to argue for the opinion. There are also many just very questionable opinions, like calling Crimean Tatars (they can also just be called Crimeans, fun fact) just for tatars.
It would have been okay, if this was written in like, the first three months of the war. Maybe half a year. But it was published almost a year ago after the beginning of full nation invasion, so it could have been much better.

[Henriette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fragmentarisk, hop fra tue til tue, kommunikerende som var det en samtale med konstante tankespring, en uorden af perspektiver og stærke holdninger.

[Camilla (Fabulouslybooks) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Forvirrende at følge med i med lille rød tråd