ABSTRACT
It is always risky to mark a certain year as ‘historical,’ but it may well be that 2022 will qualify as one of the important turning points in modern history, along with years like 1948 (the Declaration of Human Rights after the end of World War II), 1989 (the fall of the Berlin Wall, marking the end of the Cold War that had divided the world in the decades prior to that) and 2001 (the attack on the New York World Trade Center, a sign perhaps that the post–Cold War order would not be as peaceful and harmonious as was assumed after 1989).
