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ble. But would the general decline in military budgets hold? Would the new national boundaries that divided the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia be sustainable? As modern authoritarianism has taken root and ex- panded its influence, the answers to these questions are increasingly negative.

n FY2003. As Table 1 indicates, the percentage of cases approved among the top 10 countries ranges from a high of 50.0% for asylum seekers from the Cameroon to a low of 0.7% for asylum seekers from Mexico.'" Table 1. Top 10 Source Countries of USCIS Asylum Seekers Source country New cases filed Cases

of all the 234,590 refugees, asylees and humanitarian entrants who became LPRs: Bosnia-Herzegovina (20%), Cuba (20%), Ukraine (8%), and the former Yugoslavia (7%) 6 Although there are many who would revise U.S. asylum law and policy, those advocating change have divergent perspectives. Some express conce

. The bitter experiences of the Afghan and Iraq wars, however, shifted the debate on military intervention once more. Both Barack Obama in the US and David Cameron in Britain promised to be leaders who would adopt a much more cautious attitude to foreign military adventures. Then along came the Arab spring and w

Arab spring and western leaders once again found themselves committing to military action, this time in Libya - Mr Obama with evident reluctance, Mr Cameron and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France with apparent enthusiasm. The Libyan war illustrates how unfolding events can force a political leader's hand

mptions can lead you into as much trouble this quickly. Even in 1989-90, those countries were the exception and not the rule. Think Ukraine, Belarus, Yugoslavia, Romania, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and of course Russia itself. More people live in countries where the 1989-90 revolutionary wave failed t

rable. But would the general decline in military budgets hold? Would the new national boundaries that divided the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia be sustainable? As modern authoritarianism has taken root and ex- panded its influence, the answers to these questions are increasingly negative. 1

ntent/63a5a9b2-85cd-11e6-8897-2359a58ac7/a5. 28. Cameron White, “Beijing's Textbook Hypocrisy,” Wall Stree