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The EU is an attempt to develop a post-historical structure that can accommodate these controversies without bloodshed, but the hidden assumption has always been that there are no truly irreconcilable gaps between the interests of France and Germany.
The Culture War Over Europe's Money Walter Russell Mead 2011
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Instead Fukuyama predicted a “steadily expanding post-historical world”6 of liberal democracies, which would clash intermittently with a “historical” world of countries that had not yet made the transition to liberal democracy.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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Instead Fukuyama predicted a “steadily expanding post-historical world”6 of liberal democracies, which would clash intermittently with a “historical” world of countries that had not yet made the transition to liberal democracy.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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"It's delusive to say that you are some kind of pious post-historical automaton [for whom] five million years of tribalism have just evaporated," you said, before adding: "I think I'm pretty free of racism, but I get little impulses, urges and atavisms now and then."
Johann Hari: The Two Faces of Amis: An Exclusive Interview With Martin Amis 2009
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The Pentagon, you might say, is perfectly willing to make do with post-historical battle space.
Tom Engelhardt: The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism 2009
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The same may be said of politics, particularly world politics, and if the word can still be used in the current 'postmodern' and 'post-historical' epoch, destiny.
Mr. Simmons' Mission: NATO Bases From Balkans To Chinese Border 2009
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And a post-historical city is, I fear, a city about which one can predict with some certainty that it will die.
Road Trip: Part II Bernard-Henri L 2005
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And perhaps the love we feel for the journey stems from the obscure conviction that here, and here alone, the possibility is offered to a human being to see concentrated the materialization of these two dreams, pre - and post-historical, both equally powerful, but which usually we can think of only as separated by thousands of kilometers and, even more, by millennia.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V) Bernard-Henri L 2005
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And perhaps the love we feel for the journey stems from the obscure conviction that here, and here alone, the possibility is offered to a human being to see concentrated the materialization of these two dreams, pre - and post-historical, both equally powerful, but which usually we can think of only as separated by thousands of kilometers and, even more, by millennia.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V) Bernard-Henri L 2005
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And a post-historical city is, I fear, a city about which one can predict with some certainty that it will die.
Road Trip: Part II Bernard-Henri L 2005
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