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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."
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"An Atlas of Territorial and Border Disputes", David Downing, New English Library, 1980