Will You Become Your Own Nation?
U.S. efforts to persuade people in hotspots from the Balkans to Africa andbeyond of the virtues of multiethnic democracy appear to be swimming againstthe tide. The post-Cold War world has seen nation-states fragmenting intoever-smaller units, defined by ethnic, tribal and religious identities,threatening to tear apart the fragile structure of international relationscreated in the last century. Rather than reversing it, the West's challenge isto manage that chaos.

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