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Have any post-colonial states tried to deliberately re-draw their borders around ethnic, linguistic or cultural lines? If so, what happened?	3
What sort of influence did the U.S. government have over which foreign films and media were available to the public during the Cold War?	3
Mercenaries were utilized in almost every area of the world during the pre-conscription era, except, apparently, in sub-Saharan Africa. Why?	3
On March 1, 2000, the National Post, a Canadian newspaper, published an 'explosive leak' from a UN investigation that implicated Paul Kagame in the assassination of the Rwandan president that sparked the Rwandan genocide. Is this accusation credible?	3
Was nomadic livestock herding practiced in the United States? If so, how did this conflict with increasing number of settled ranchers and farmers?	2
How did Christianity go from being so universally hated in the Roman Empire to being legalized and finally promoted?	2
China was a fractured multiethnic state that transitioned from widespread poverty, underdevelopment, and a civil war in the 40's, to stability, manufacturing chain capacity, and widespread infrastructure by the 2000's. How did this happen when other states in its position failed?	2
"The majority of conflicts shifted from being between states to being within states, and that after the Cold War, there was a marked increase in conflicts between ethnic/religious groups, i.e. Rwanda and Bosnia/Kosovo." Is this sentiment true, or is this just how we remember it?	2
How did demographers, political scientists, and economists forecast China and India's geopolitical significance as it became apparent that their populations were going to be comparatively massive in the future?	1
Some proposals have been made regarding policies to alleviate the job loss caused by automation. Has any government initiated a policy to address large technological displacement in the past? And did it work?	1

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