{"id":104298,"date":"2025-05-15T19:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104298\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:25:09","slug":"six-books-about-how-conflicts-end-or-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104298\/","title":{"rendered":"Six books about how conflicts end\u2014or don\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">WARS, AS THE saying goes, are easy to start but hard to end. Donald Trump is keen to be a peacemaker, but has seen how hard it is to bring enemies to the table. On May 15th America tried to convene Russian and Ukrainian officials in Turkey to discuss a ceasefire. (Though the delegations arrived in different cities; Vladimir Putin, Russia\u2019s president, pointedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2025\/05\/15\/peace-talks-are-starting-in-istanbul-but-who-will-be-there\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refused to attend;<\/a> and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, called the Russian presence \u201cdecorative\u201d). Progress in Gaza is proving just as elusive\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/united-states\/2025\/02\/28\/steve-witkoff-donald-trumps-savvy-dealmaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Witkoff<\/a>, Mr Trump\u2019s busiest envoy, has said that Israel is \u201cnot prepared to end the war\u201d. These books examine the travails of past peace talks. Many highlight the fateful consequences of reaching a bad deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARS, AS THE saying goes, are easy to start but hard to end. Donald Trump is keen to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,2766,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-104298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114513492579553670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}