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… The “historic world” is ending—that world in which major powers habitually engage in power contests and weaker nations live as their proteges. The world of “alarums and excursions,” of the traditional patriotic lore we have learned in school—this world is ending.We live instead in the midst of a transition between this traditional world and a dimly recognizable new world. Two new forces will be important in shaping this new world. One is the overriding common interest of all major nations in avoiding a nuclear war; the other is the awakening of national consciousness in all societies, even the smallest and technologically least developed.
Samuel H. Day (Mon,) studied this question.