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Octavian-Dragomir JORA

Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti

Penned in an era of solid empires, declared confrontations and solemn reconciliations, Tolstoy’s War and Peace started from a premise that late modernity has twisted to the point of caricature: that “war” and “peace” are distinct, recognizable (e)states, with clear moral thresholds and a memory of shame. For him, war is a total experience, which melts destinies, overturns hierarchies and exposes vanities. And peace is a fragile but intelligible aspiration, linked to meaning and duty, not to statistics or ratings. Rereading it today is no longer just a history exercise, but a vocabulary test: how much do these two words still signify to us, when we live in a present that uses them as labels on boxes? Between the “Napoleon” depicted by Tolstoy and today’s “hybrids” (Trump’s step twins Department of War and Board of Peace), the difference is not only one of technology, but of consciousness: where the novel sees the consequences, the present jumps straight to conclusions. And when you confuse war with a news scroll and peace with a commercial break, you lose the very tool for discerning the world.

ŒCONOMICA nr. 1-2/2026

WAR (DEPARTMENT OF) AND PEACE (BOARD OF) [RĂZBOI (MINISTERUL DE) ŞI PACE (CONSILIUL PENTRU)]

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