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One was the Second World War itself,
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which was in part--
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and although there were deep contradictions involved in it--
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it was in part, at least, a war against racialism.
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The discipline was affected by decolonization,
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also by the rise of American hegemony after World War II,
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with new priorities.
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It was influenced by globalization as an explicit idea,
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and its implications that we all live in a single disease environment,
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and that what happens in distant parts of the world
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are also vitally important for the entire world population.
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And then there was--what was very important also