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With the end of the Cold War a new era, marked by internal conflict within countries, began. The international political architecture was built, in many cases, on a giant fiction that nation states actually existed in many officially designated countries of the world. They did not. Empires and colonization determined the mosaic of countries indicated by the border lines on current maps of the world. A new era began with fault lines of conflict emerging within designated nation states and between larger civilisational groupings (Huntington, 2002).