International records / OpenAlex research

Western attitudes

As the twentieth century approaches its end the increasing collapse of formerly accepted frameworks and patterns of behaviour represented, for example, by the growth of ethnic cleansing, the breakdown of law and order in an ever lengthening number of small and not so small states, the increase of both fundamentalism and terrorism with their accompanying violence and the emergence of semi-autonomous, and often highly dangerous, groups such as the drug cartels within states between them put at risk communities, minorities, mining and other vested interests and sometimes the state itself. In such…