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Conflict Prevention in Asia, Europe Compared The Asia-Pacific region remains the hotbed of a host of incipient or actual conflicts ranging from potentially strategic nuclear confrontations to decades-old domestic secessionist or other hostilities but remains incapable of developing effective conflict prevention instrument comparable to those set in place in Europe. |
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An Asian Democracy-Market Scorecard from German Think Tank A European think tank’s quantitative global ranking of 119 states’ political and market-economy development has found a number of clusters of performance in Asia that range from two full-fledged market-based democracies to a range of what it terms “defective democracies, moderate autocracies or autocracies” with no clear trends except perhaps toward market mechanisms. |
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