Historians will long debate the heritage of economic development, mass
bitterness and cultural cleavage that Autocracies and Political
Domination has left to the world. Political problems of decolonisation
are grave and immediate. The international community is laden with
minute states unable to secure either sovereignty or solvency and with
large states erected without a common ethnic base. The world's
post-colonial areas often have been scenes of protracted and violent
conflicts: ethnic, national regimes, religious and civil wars. The end
of colonialism neatly divided nation-states throughout the world and
brought rivalry between the great powers.