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What is the scholarly consensus on the causes and triggers for authoritarian militaries to go above and beyond, and outright against, pragmatic necessity, in inflicting violence and cruelty upon noncombatants, refugees, and helpless prisoners?	9
How/Why did "Right of Revolution" come to be granted by Positive Law in the Constitution of the State of Texas, and what consequenes did it have?	9
What influence did Spanish Civil War refugees have on Mexican history?	8
Why were Nazis and Fascists so keen and generous in supporting the National side of the Spanish Civil War, helping formulate the plot, committing massive troops and personnel... when Falange was a small fraction of that coaltion?	8
How well-accepted is Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's Selectorate Theory in academia? What are the most respected competing general theories on power acquistion, maintenance, and loss?	8
How did the heritage of the Eastern Roman and Sasanian Empires influence the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates, particularly as it relates to administration, infrastructure, education, scholarship, and statescraft?	7
How does Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979, compare to other kings that were deposed and exiled by republican revolutions?	7
I am a slave in Abbasid Baghdad - educated in Philosophy, Geometry, and Law, speak tongues like Latin, Greek, and Farsi - What are my rights, what are my possibilities? If treated unlawfully, what recourse do I have? How does my gender and ethnic origin affect these factors?	6
What were the distinctive traits of the Judicial System in the USSR, particularly in regards to Philosophy of Law and Judicial Security?	3
How was the Ottoman Empire influenced by the legacy of Constantinople?	3

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