CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS March 30, 2014 14:02:00
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...
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