Word: continentality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the sunniest version of South Africa's destiny, the country, being the strongest economy in Africa, will begin to lead the continent into the 21st century. But everyone's mind entertained a dark, simultaneous vision of disintegration: of economic disaster and tribal war. Images of Rwanda's Tutsi and...
Though Bush's dismissal may not be an uncontentious claim, the conflict brewing in the Balkans at least is not an American problem. U.S. interests are not materially at stake, nor does the conflict threaten to spread into a continent-wide conflagration.
U.N. security forces have been in Bosnia for weeks; they're sitting around, wringing their hands, as the Serbian shelling continues. But Rwanda, on U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali's home continent, has not received more than cautious rhetoric.
Participants in the conference discussed health, the role of women, famine, religion and technology on the continent. The conference also stopped for a moment of silence to remember those slain in Rwanda, where thousands died in fighting this weekend.
Cardinal Richelieu, the First Minister of France at the time, developed the concept of national interest while working to prevent the revival of the Holy Roman Empire, which he deemed a threat to France's security even though both were Catholic. No longer were national interests to be equated with...