Three years on, what are the lessons for post-war state-building?
The 1945 election has been seen as showing a broad consensus behind the post-war welfare state.
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Many of the Germans had supported Hitler, and thus contributed to the destruction of the pre-war Czechoslovak state.
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Our incomes are far higher and in some degree we're cushioned against shocks by what remains of the post-war welfare state.
Disapproval of the Iraq war and the state of the economy are just too high.
The murder of two within ten days looks to Brazilians like a declaration of war against the state by organised crime.
So Iraq has yet to export any oil produced since the war, a state of affairs that has buoyed the oil price.
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Israel's last war against another state's army was almost 40 years ago.
Indeed, though much rarer, state on state war does still occur in the modern day, as evidenced by the First and Second Gulf Wars.
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One would expect that the voting pattern could be influenced by large factors: the Iraq War, the state the economy, the price of gasoline.
He expected the summit to discuss the question of outside security forces entering Afghanistan, but Washington first wanted Afghans to try to "get rid of the bandits" threatening aid efforts in the war-ravaged state.
In 1993, in Geneva, the leaders of Bosnia's Serbs, Croats and Muslims met face to face for the first time in three months to press rival plans for the division of their war-ravaged state.
Either way, it goes on to state that any war must be backed by the UN and if any country (including another member state) does attack another then the other countries should group together and attack the offending country (the one breaking UN code).
Both sides immediately placed their forces on a state of war-readiness but the situation was resolved.
First, a unilaterally declared Palestinian state will be in a de facto state of war with Israel.
Another exception might be a limited action for limited purposes not calculated to create a state of war.
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In 1921, the United States and Germany signed a peace treaty ending the state of war between them.
International pressure had been applied to Macedonia's leaders not to destabilise the region by declaring a state of war.
The British soldiers were Adams' fellow countrymen -- not foreign enemies of the state at war with his country.
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Declaring a state of war in Macedonia would need more than two-thirds majority approval -- or 81 of parliament's 120 deputies.
Syria and Israel have been in a state of war since 1948 but the border had been relatively calm in recent years.
North and South Korea are, technically, still in a state of war.
And so any state formed outside the framework of a peace treaty will be in a de facto state of war with Israel.
Despite the almost permanent state of war between the Wazirs and the Mehsud, these commanders forged an alliance with Baitullah Mehsud last February.
North and South Korea have no formal ties and remain technically in a state of war since a 1953 truce that ended the Korean War.
That is, Obama is unwilling to commit himself to not recognizing a Palestinian state that will be in a de facto state of war with Israel.
In 1875, the Constitution found a home in a tin box in the bottom of a closet in a new building that housed the Departments of State, War, and Navy.
The event does not explicitly surface in the novel, but it adds a grave sadness to Mr Grossman's searching account of the psychological and physical costs of a seemingly endless state of war.
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