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at the expense of less-liberal ones. This explains, for instance, why Western Europe came to dominate the rest of the world rather than the other way around. More states, has conducted the most aggressive foreign policy, while the former Soviet Union, for instance, with its entirely illiberal (repressive) domestic policies has historian Michael Howard noted about 18th-century monarchical warfare: On the [European] continent commerce, travel, cultural and learned intercourse went on in