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The bipolar structure of the global political system has rapidly disappeared since 1989. On a positive level, this has helped to bring a number of protracted conflicts to an end; on a negative level, however, the end of the Cold War has created scope for new eruptions of violence, some of which have already happened and others which may occur in the near future. These conflicts are partly new or, if they existed previously, had little or no chance of escalating during the era of East-West rivalry, as, for example, with ethnic and religious differences. But there also seems to be a new, or perhaps long-forgotten type: conflicts connected with the structural transformation of societies. These conflicts concern the long-term processes of state-formation and nation-building, and are primarily located in developing countries.
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van de Goor, L., Rupesinghe, K., Sciarone, P. (1996). Introduction to the Themes. In: van de Goor, L., Rupesinghe, K., Sciarone, P. (eds) Between Development and Destruction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24794-3_1
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