Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López

European Integration Historian (Universidade da Coruña)

“That it can end and how it ended. We now have the privileged viewpoint of observing history in hindsight and we could be honored to unveil a so far unconnected causal link leading to turning points such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and peaceful transitions. By focusing on the intertwined ecosystem of: root causes, shared efforts and initially unimaginable alliances for common purposes, we can now map itineraries that were once invisible. Indeed, these have a nuanced feel and taste, and they can shed (further) light on the threads that reinforced once opaque networks. In this way, even if different context are never a mirror of one another, we can build a set of cooperative triggering factors of analysis for forward-looking and dialogued futures.”