The nature of the new world system was not so different from

Image, The nature of the new world system was not so different from

The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.

—Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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