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The democratic countries must courageously show a willingness to apply the principles on which their internal system is based to the global sphere

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Barnor Hesse

Barnor Hesse is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London. He is editor of Un/Settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas, Entanglements, Transruptions (Zed Press, 2000).

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