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Mar 31, 2026
Antony Dabila
Today, violent conflicts are increasingly interconnected, with each new hotspot amplifying others and increasing the strain on the system as a whole. Under such conditions, wars no longer remain separate but can converge into a single strategic crisis – all while remaining below the nuclear threshold.
PARIS – Nuclear weapons made wars of conquest between great powers unthinkable. After 1945, nuclear powers could still confront one another, but only indirectly, through proxy conflicts and peripheral crises. However bloody, these conflicts were not expected to approach the violence of the 20th century’s two world wars.
