Algeria, Vietnam, and Punta del Este

Abstract

These are three widely separated places on the map of the world that have been making many headlines in recent weeks. Is that all they have in common? Superficially, it might seem so. But if we look deeper, we find that the events which have brought these African, Asian, and Latin American localities into the news are all part of one great historic process.

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