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The spread of liberal institutions does not decrease violence but transforms it. We call this process liberal pacification.
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The spread of liberal institutions does not decrease violence but transforms it. We call this process liberal pacification.
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Why humans can’t rest but superintelligent AIs might
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Vector autoregression (VAR) using time-series data from 2004 to 2017 provides new evidence that media coverage drives party support, …
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