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A BRUTAL CHESS GAME. Syrian refugees, fleeing the violence in their country, cross border into Kurdish region of northern Iraq, September 5, 2013.
Giandomenico Picco
In his seminal book Voltaire’s Bastards (1992), John Ralston Saul noted that at the Vienna Conference in 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic era, the leaders of the old continent concluded that the nation-state, born in Westphalia in 1648, had to be re-organized: “inst