The Revenge of Passions
by Pierre Hassner | May 14th, 2010
![Valmy: milling the flour of history](http://www.european-journal.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Bataille_de_Valmy_ag1-300x202.jpg)
In his criticism of Henry Kissinger’s geopolitical concepts as too narrow and traditional, Stanley Hoffmann wrote: “The map of passions must be added to those showing bases and resources”.
I certainly make no claim here to elaborate these “geopolitics of passion” for which, like Hoffman I think the need is urgentely felt. But I would like […]