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Foreign-policy experts worried that if Zairian rebels defeat government forces, this could lead to the disintegration of other Central African nation-states whose boundaries are the arbitrary products of the colonial era.
After the victory, Count Afonso Henriques proclaimed himself the first king of Portugal, making it one of the first nation-states in Europe.
After the war, the Allies, following Wilsonian ideals of self-determination, straightened up Europe into tidy nation-states.
The world would remain strife-torn, he said, only now the main actors would be not ideological blocs or nation-states or superpowers, but distinct "civilizations"--Western, Islamic, Confucian, Japanese, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American, Hindu, and African.
Instead of facing a few very dangerous adversaries, the United States confronts a number of less visible challenges that surpass the boundaries of traditional nation-states and call for quick, imaginative, and agile responses.