, democracies have killed thousands of people in the bombings of Hamburg and Hiroshima. However in his book International Relations (Conflict and co-operation at the turn of the 21st century) Conway Henderson states that the end of the Cold War in 1991 heralded a new era in which democracy, for the first time, would be without a major ideological rival. Generally, democracy has surged forward since the end of the Cold War, with about half of the 200 states in the world today be
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