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Mon 09 Sep 2008The dangerous business of dismantling empires
ANALYSIS:The mess in Ossetia will be repeated if global leaders fail to learn lessons from the past writes Tony Kinsella
EU LEADERS are going to have a difficult meeting in Brussels today as they try to agree on a response to the Georgian crisis. Some will be tempted to bluster and others to prevaricate as they gingerly address our new realities. The age of empires is over, and the era of inter-state war and large conscript armies is slipping into our past.
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