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The Boer War was a costly colonial conflict between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics in South Africa. Pitting the superior armed ...
In an age of global terrorism, can the pursuit of security be reconciled with liberal democratic values and legal principles? During its "global war on ...
Born of the struggle for global influence between the great powers in the aftermath of World War II, the Cold War was an era of ...
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