Peace divide(n)d is spent

The end of World War II 70 years ago ushered in a new World Order. It delegitimised the logic of imperial conquest for narrow national gain. It disenfranchised undemocratic forms of government, be they monarchies or fascist/stalinist regimes. It celebrated the commonality of human dignity and sloughed off the superficial respectability of racial and gender prejudice and stereotypes. Economic, military, cultural and political co-operation was the mantra that would exorcise the desolation of the 1929 Wall Street collapse and the horror of the two World Wars that straddled it, of Somme,... This article is part of our premium content. Full story is available on Times of Malta Premium.

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