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Belong to the 19th century. the transformation of international relations goes well beyond border changes. harvard's steven pinker, who will be on the show later, points out in a recent essay that after a 600-year stretch in which western european countries started two new wars a year they have not started one since 1945, nor have the 40 or so richest nations anywhere in the world engaged each other in armed conflict. colonial wars, a routine feature of international life for thousands of years, are extinct. wars between countries, not just major powers, not just in europe, have also dropped d...

Century we're living in. almost all of these critics ridicule john kerry's assertion that changing borders by force, as russia did, is 19th century behavior in the 21st century. well, here are the facts. the scholar mark zacker has tallied up changes of borders by force. something that was once quite common. since world war 1, he notes, it has been on a sharp decline, and in recent dedicates that decline has accelerated. before 1950 wars between nations would result in border changes, that is, annexations, 81% of the time. after 1950 that number dropped to 27%. in fact, since 1946 there are on...