What is genuinely new about the lessons emerging from the wars in the Middle East?
The limits of external security guarantees, the unpredictable consequences of military force, and the selective application of international law are hardly new discoveries. Drawing on historical experience and critical scholarship, Noufal Abboud challenges the tendency to present old lessons as new revelations, questioning the selective historical memory that shapes our understanding of war and peace.
The real challenge is not our inability to learn from history, but our persistent failure to remember and act upon what it has already taught us.
