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al democracy has marked core and hegemonic states since the nineteenth century.

B. France and Germany as core societies.

In the nineteenth century, France was a core society, having all the characteristics of such a society as listed under A above. Germany only attained this status in the late nineteenth century, when it became unified. The two world wars can be interpreted as attempts by Germany to achieve hegemony by military means when economic means had failed, and the division of Germany for almost half a century after the end of World War II can be interpreted as an attempt by other major world

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