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Does the West impose its own definition of human rights and democracy on the rest of the world? Does globalization threaten British, French or other European ie
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Amartya Sen argues that most of the conflicts in the contemporary world arise from individuals' notions of who they are, and which groups they belong to - local
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The Domestic and the Foreign in Architecture
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