What does it mean to be 'neutral' over Ukraine – and what responsibilities come with it?
- Written by Maartje Abbenhuis, Professor of History, University of Auckland
There’s a popular cartoon by Tom Toro that’s been doing the social media rounds since 2012, in which two historians sit in a book-lined library as one complains:
Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.
As a historian, I...
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