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Concluding Comments: Collective Identities in a Complex World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2011

Donald L. Donham
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As I write, the United States and the United Kingdom have begun their invasion of Iraq. Thus, the most developed forms of violence are being brought into relationship with some of the world's most complexly layered local identitites—all on global television. The unpredictability of this situation points, I believe, to one of the more profound aspects of the post-Cold War order.

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Africa , Volume 73 , Issue 3 , August 2003 , pp. 456 - 460
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Copyright © International African Institute 2003

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