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Rise of nations 27/10/2023 ![]() When countries do fight over territory today, the battles are strictly limited: Consider troops from India and China, two nuclear-armed superpowers, going at it, by mutual agreement, with rocks and metal rods on their disputed Himalayan border. ![]() ![]() The exceptions - Russia’s incursions into its post-Soviet neighbors, China’s threats against Taiwan - only prove the rule, as leftover disputes from the breakup of the Soviet Union and China’s civil war, respectively. And yet, conventional conflicts between states over the control of territory are nearly unheard of today. He sees states as constantly motivated by fear of invasion or the desire for territorial expansion. But Marshall never really addresses the changing nature of armed conflict.
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