Ali Wyne is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security and a security fellow with the Truman National Security Project. Fundamental strategic shifts are underway in Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific. The increasing use of drone strikes and the proliferation of “gray zone” security challenges have further blurred the divide between war and peace. Whatever one’s assessments of these judgments, one should not conflate greater complexity with greater danger. The Carnegie Endowment’s Rachel Kleinfeld, author of a forthcoming book that examines how certain countries have overcome extreme violence, contends that recent years represent “a blip in a much longer trajectory” toward greater world peace.

Source: New York Times September 06, 2016 07:18 UTC