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International efforts to assist refugees largely fall into four areas. The first and most basic is to prevent the conditions that create refugees (or to alter the conditions if they do).

On the eve of the close encounter with the West, China’s distinctive political trajectory (still dominated by its symbiotic relationship with Inner Asia) propelled it not towards an all-powerful oriental despotism (imagined by Europeans) – which might have permitted drastic change in the face of external challenge – but instead still further

South Asia is dominated by India, which will soon surpass China as the world’s most populous country. As a democracy, India offers an important alternative to China in many ways. But the region is also defined by India’s rivalry with Pakistan, by the long-running war in Afghanistan, and by efforts to improve living standards for hundreds of

vTaiwan was its collaboration with OpenAI’s Democratic Input to AI project in 2023.

State weakness and failure along with civil wars will remain relatively common given the many factors that bring about intrastate conflict and violence. Somalia remains a failed state thirty years after it collapsed, while over the past decade Syria, Yemen, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have all