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"Many have argued that democracies tend not to start wars, so that having more democracies in the world is in the interest of peace-loving people. But that is vastly different from saying that we know how to create democracies (...)"
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"[T]o say that a time of war has emerged only since 9/11 is, on the one hand, ethnocentric and plain wrong. On the other hand, awareness of war among the general population of the Western world emerged after 9/11; perception rather than reality drives commentators to define the current period as one of conflict and not peace."
"The Geography of War and Peace - From Death Camps to Diplomats", Introduction by Colin Flint (editor), Oxford University Press, 2005
"Nations, often hard to define in themselves, rarely occupy compact geographical areas. Nationalism, the agressive edge of self-determination, has demanded borders that both included and protected the nation. All too frequently one nation's self-determination has proved another nation's subservience or fragmentation"
"An Atlas of Territorial and Border Disputes", David Downing, New English Library, 1980
