And then there is the feminist explanation: patriarchy, which sees street-level harassment as an assertion of male domination.

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Yet a lot of that would surely come down to control of budgets, more than high-level constitutional arrangements or assertion of "social union".

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On one level, the whole thing was an assertion of raw power, dressed up with the trappings of a grand global strategy.

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