The regions that are considered as ethnic strife-prone are: Western Europe- Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, France and Spain; Eastern Europe- Yogoslavia and newly independent countries of former Soviet Union; the Mediterranean and the Middle East- Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon and Israel; Africa- virtually every nation; Asia- from Pakistan to the Philippines; and the Americas- from Canada throughout the Caribbean. ...

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McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. They pointed to evidence of the Soviets objective to support and set up governments in Eastern European countries that reflected not only their communist views, but also the Soviet way of running those governments through a " return to doctrinal belligerence by Russian leaders. ... In the middle of the 1960's, inspired by th...

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Deng's move to a market economy, " was one of the most powerful demonstrations of the bankruptcy of the command economies that at the time still prevailed in the Soviet Union and most of Eastern Europe."5 China had removed the burdensome yoke of Mao's communist ideology from its economy, but its autocratic government was far from democratized. ... As Tatsumi Okabe says, "The radical democrats focused primarily on the group interests of the intellectuals, and the neo-authoritarian regarded the uneducated masses as unready for democracy."8 With relatively no middle class emerging i...

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However, over the years Nigerians have developed a number of important components of successful democracy namely the fourth Republic which includes a diverse and vigorous media, an educated and often critical elite, outspoken human rights organizations, a growing middle class and a respected legal profession and judiciary. ... Thus when the narrow suffrage of a competitive oligarchy has been extended to the middle class and minority groups, the number of party leaders and members of parliament drawn from the middle class and minorities has increased, thus establishing inclusiveness and competi...

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Moreover China was very curious about its population which in the middle of 21 century will reach 1.5 billion of people. ... Processes of globalization and regionalization intensified spreading of relations across the borders in eastern and central Europe. ... If immigration policy of Russia towards Siberia wouldn't be changed, 10 millions of Chinese people will migrate till the middle of the 21 century. ...

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