13
Architects of the Modern World
A Comparative Theory of Global Transition
(1860–1979)
Arif Jameel
Independent Scholar | Reuters
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Lahore, Pakistan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9290-6195
Abstract
This study proposes a new theoretical framework for
understanding the formation of the modern international system between 1860 and
1979. It argues that this transitional period witnessed an extraordinary historical
concentration of thirteen leaders whose interconnected decisions, ideologies,
and unintended effects collectively reshaped global politics, economics, and
institutions. Rather than attributing systemic change to a single war, empire,
or power, the research frames these figures as links in a single historical
chain—revolutionaries, empire-builders, state-founders, and transitional
administrators—who, by implementing the ideas of renowned philosophers,
economists, lawmakers, and thinkers, jointly determined the direction of the
contemporary world. Through comparative historical analysis, the study examines
how ideological sources precede leadership, how institutions and ethics outlast
temporary power, and how decisions made in a limited era continue to shape even
the AI age. The theory offers a novel lens beyond traditional “great power”
narratives, presenting a testable model for future research. By linking figures
such as Lenin, Churchill, Gandhi, Jinnah, and Mao within one coherent
structure, it invites scholars to view global history as a coordinated, partly
unintentional process of systemic transformation. This work is presented not as
a final conclusion, but as an initial scholarly step toward a more robust,
comparative, and academically rigorous model of international historical
change.
Keywords: modern international system, historical
transition, global leadership, comparative history, ideological influence,
decolonization, Cold War, international order, transitional administrators,
1860–1979.
Introduction
There are periods in history when old
systems, burdened by internal contradictions and tensions, gradually pave the
way for new global arrangements. Although the intellectual roots of this
transformation can be traced to the French Revolution and even earlier eras,
the starting point of this theoretical framework is taken to be the Indian War
of Independence of 1857. In its wake, Russian unrest, the decline of the
Ottoman Caliphate, industrial and imperial rivalries, the rise of new nationalist
movements, and Japan’s emergence created a global environment in which
extraordinary political transformations were born.
Central Hypothesis
The central hypothesis of this framework is as
follows:
“These conditions
produced, for the first time in history, within a relatively limited period, a
large number of politically, militarily, and liberation-oriented leaders who
were implicitly interconnected. Their interactions, conflicts, negotiations,
and decisions ultimately laid the foundation for a new international order,
moving from the League of Nations to the United Nations. According to this
hypothesis, the historical significance of these figures does not lie merely in
their individual achievements, but also in the fact that their decisions
continuously shaped one another and the broader political direction of the
world.”
This hypothesis will be tested through
brief biographies of each selected figure, their historical context, and their
system-shaping decisions, so as to examine whether this period indeed
represented a unique era in human history in which such a concentration of
global leadership emerged and thereby established the foundations of the modern
international system.
These leaders appeared within a
single, extraordinary transitional epoch. Some met directly, while others never
encountered one another in person; yet their political, intellectual, and
military repercussions were so profound that the history of any one of them
cannot be fully understood without reference to the others. Vladimir Lenin, for example, never met personally many of
these figures, yet his revolution and his communist ideology cast a continuous
and decisive influence over the political decisions of the entire age. This
overlapping layer of hidden and overt interconnection constitutes the core
subject of this theoretical framework.
1. Vladimir Lenin:
Architect of Socialist Thought and the First Major Ideological
Shock in Modern Global Politics
Vladimir
Lenin was born on 22 April 1870 in the Russian city of Simbirsk. During his
legal studies, he deeply engaged with Marxism and emerged as a prominent leader
of the revolutionary struggle against the Tsarist monarchy. In his
revolutionary years, he wrote hundreds of articles, pamphlets, and political
brochures, through which he adapted Marxism to Russian conditions and
strengthened the ideological foundations of the Bolshevik movement. The First
World War, the weakening grip of the Tsarist regime, economic distress, and
popular unrest provided him with a historic opportunity to seize power.
By
leading the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Lenin established the world’s first
communist state, fundamentally altering the direction of global politics and
economics. His government also laid the initial budgetary framework and
introduced centrally planned economic policies, which set the path for the
future Soviet economic system.
Lenin
died on 21 January 1924 after suffering several strokes. At the time of his death,
he was serving as the head of the Soviet state (Chairman of the Council of
People’s Commissars), the highest administrative position in the newly
established Soviet government.
Although
Lenin died in 1924, his ideological impact did not fade. Joseph Stalin built
upon this foundation to transform the Soviet Union into a great military and
industrial power, while the spread of communism profoundly influenced the
decisions of leaders in Europe, Asia, and other regions.
Within
the hypothesis of this theoretical framework, Vladimir Lenin represents the
first major link in this interconnected historical sequence. Although he never
personally met many figures in this list, his ideological revolution
continuously shaped the decisions, alliances, wars, and global politics of
subsequent leaders. This intellectual continuity played an indirect but deep
role in the formation of the Second World War, the United Nations, and later
international systems.
2. Winston Churchill:
The Last Great Guardian of the British Empire
Winston
Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 in England. In his
youth, he served as a British military officer and war reporter in the Malakand
region of India (present-day Pakistan), where he gained practical experience of
colonial administration and frontier warfare. He was a staunch supporter of the
stability of the British Empire and remained actively engaged in preserving
Britain’s global supremacy. He died on 24 January 1965 in London at the age of
ninety.
During
the Second World War, as Prime Minister, Churchill’s steadfast leadership,
powerful rhetoric, and military strategy played a crucial role in leading
Britain to resist and eventually defeat Nazi Germany. However, the same war
also exposed the military and economic weaknesses of the British Empire,
forcing Britain to move closer to the United States and to enter into multiple
strategic agreements.
Churchill’s
wartime decisions altered the balance of global politics. His relationship with
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt helped pave the way for the establishment
of international institutions such as the United Nations after the war, while
at the same time, American influence gained a dominant position in global
leadership. On the other hand, disagreements over certain aspects of French
interests and military strategy created tensions with Charles de Gaulle.
Within
the hypothesis of this theoretical framework, Winston Churchill is a decisive
link in this historical transitional epoch. By leading the resistance against
fascism, he secured military victory for the British Empire, but the very same
war weakened the political and economic dominance of British imperialism. As a
result, Britain was compelled to enter into such an alliance with the United
States that gradually shifted the center of global leadership from London to
Washington. According to this framework, Churchill was a leader who, almost
unintentionally, played a significant role in bringing about the end of the old
imperial system and the beginning of a new international order based on
American leadership.
3.
Charles de Gaulle:
Guarantor of French Prestige and Architect of National Sovereignty
Charles
de Gaulle was born on 22 November 1890 in France. He was a professional soldier
and, after serving in the First World War, rose to the rank of brigadier
general by the outbreak of the Second World War. Following France’s defeat by
Germany in 1940, he went to London and assumed leadership of the “Free France”
movement, becoming the symbolic figure of French resistance. After the war, he
played a central role in reorganizing France as a dignified and sovereign
state. His core political doctrine, “Gaullism,” emphasized national
sovereignty, a strong state, an independent foreign policy, and decisions free
from Anglo-American influence.
In
the post-war period, de Gaulle sought to restore France’s effective position in
global politics. He served as head of the Provisional Government of France from
1944 to 1946, and later as President of France (the first President of the
Fifth Republic) from 1959 to 1969. Among his key decisions was granting Algeria
independence, which further accelerated the termination of the European
colonial system. He also opposed Britain’s membership in the European Economic
Community (EEC) twice, arguing that Britain was too closely aligned with the
United States and that its inclusion could undermine Europe’s independent
political identity. These decisions profoundly influenced Europe’s political
direction, the balance of power, and the future trajectory of European
integration.
Within
the hypothesis of this theoretical framework, Charles de Gaulle is one of the
important links in this historical transitional epoch. He not only restored
French national sovereignty and prestige but also played a significant role in
the end of the colonial era and the emergence of a new balance of power in
Europe. His opposition to Britain’s EEC membership was part of a broader vision
in which Europe should acquire a political identity relatively independent of
American and British influence. According to this framework, de Gaulle exerted
notable influence on the international political system that emerged after the
Second World War and on the new direction of Europe.
He
died on 9 November 1970 due to a heart attack. At that time he held no official
position, yet his status as a key architect of French national sovereignty and
modern European politics remained intact.
4. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk:
The End of the Caliphate and the Foundation of a Modern National
State
Mustafa
Kemal Atatürk was born on 19 May 1881 in the city of Salonika in the Ottoman
Empire (present-day Greece). He was a professional soldier who studied in
Ottoman military academies and gained fame as a successful commander during the
First World War, particularly in the Battle of Gallipoli. After the war, when
the Allied powers began to partition the Ottoman Empire, he led the Turkish War
of Independence (1919–1922), leading to the establishment of modern Turkey and
making him the country’s foremost national leader. In 1923, he was elected as
the first President of the Republic of Turkey and remained in that office until
his death on 10 November 1938 in the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul due to liver
cancer. At the time of his death, he was still serving as the President of Turkey.
Atatürk
abolished the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924 and established a secular national
state, which altered not only Turkey’s political direction but also that of the
entire Middle East.
Following
the abolition of the Caliphate and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the
balance of power in the Middle East was fundamentally transformed. Britain and
France, under the League of Nations’ mandate system, drew new political borders
for Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and other territories, while in the Arabian
Peninsula, a new state, Saudi Arabia, emerged under the leadership of the House
of Saud. These changes deeply influenced the region’s politics, economy, and
international relations for several subsequent decades.
Instead
of the traditional concepts of monarchy and religious statehood, Atatürk
presented a model of a modern, secular, national, and institutional state. His
reforms conveyed the message that in a changing global system, the survival of
a state depends on strong institutions, modern education, industrial
development, and organized governance.
Within
the hypothesis of this theoretical framework, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is an
important link in this historical transitional epoch. He not only brought about
the end of the centuries-old Ottoman system and the Caliphate, but also gave
practical form to the concept of a modern national state. According to this
framework, the abolition of the Caliphate left the Muslim world deprived of a
common political center for several decades, thereby enabling Britain and
France to shape a new political arrangement in the Middle East[1]. At the same time, Atatürk’s modern state model
demonstrated that, in a changing global order, state survival is tied to strong
institutions, modern education, industrial progress, and organized governance.
These influences were clearly reflected in the balance of international power
that emerged before the Second World War.
5. Adolf Hitler:
The Military Shock of the Global System and the Collapse of the Old
Balance of Power
Adolf
Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn. In his
youth, he aspired to become a painter but was unable to gain admission to the
Vienna Academy of Art. During the First World War, he joined the German army;
his wartime experiences, extraordinary rhetorical abilities, and capacity to
stir popular emotions played a crucial role in shaping his political persona.
Later, he turned the national humiliation and public outrage generated by the
1919 Treaty of Versailles into the central axis of his politics. Under this
treaty, the victorious Allied powers, especially Britain, France, and other
allies, imposed harsh conditions on Germany: massive war reparations, military
restrictions, loss of territories, and the acceptance of responsibility for the
war. These measures created a deep sense of shame and grievance within the
German nation, which Hitler systematically mobilized to bring the Nazi movement
to power.
After
assuming power in 1933, Hitler adopted extreme nationalism, military expansion,
and an aggressive foreign policy as the state’s strategic doctrine, which led
to the outbreak of the Second World War. This war fundamentally shook the
political, military, and economic balance of Europe and the entire world.
Traditional imperial powers such as Britain and France were severely weakened,
while the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as two new global
superpowers.
On
30 April 1945, as defeat in Berlin became inevitable, Adolf Hitler committed
suicide, marking the beginning of the practical collapse of Nazi Germany. His
death triggered a worldwide response as a symbolic end to fascism, and Europe
moved rapidly towards the formation of a new political and institutional global
system.
The
“Holocaust” against Jews and other minorities during the Nazi regime deeply shook the
global conscience. After the war, this tragedy provided further
political support, particularly from the United States and Britain, for the
establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, becoming one of the key factors
facilitating the creation of Israel.
Within
the hypothesis of this framework, Adolf Hitler is a decisive link in this
historical transitional epoch. He emerged as the military nucleus of a global
crisis that turned the existing political, economic, and ideological tensions
into the decisive turning point of the Second World War. His actions not only
destroyed the old European imperial balance but also created new historical
conditions for the global rise of the United States and the Soviet Union, the
establishment of the United Nations, the accelerated decline of the colonial
system, and the national liberation movements that followed. According to this
framework, Hitler’s role in the formation of the new international order was
indirect yet decisive.
6. Benito Mussolini:
Founder of Fascism and
Hitler’s Initial Ideological Stimulus
Benito
Mussolini was born on 29 July 1883 in the Italian town of Predappio. In his
youth, he worked as a teacher, journalist, and socialist activist; he had not
received formal military training, but he served in the Italian army during the
First World War. After being wounded, his nationalist outlook became even more
strengthened. Later, upon entering power, he adopted the military uniform and a
military style of leadership as prominent elements of his political identity.
Within
the hypothesis of this framework, Mussolini is an important historical figure.
The common perception is that he was a follower of Hitler, but in reality,
Mussolini had already given fascism the form of a state system in Italy in
1922, a decade before Hitler came to power. As the founder of fascism in the
modern world, he proposed a model of a strong centralized state, rigid
nationalism, and authoritarian rule that influenced many political circles,
including Hitler. In the early years, Hitler openly acknowledged the influence
of Mussolini’s political style, rhetoric, and strategies for seizing power.
Within
the hypothesis of this framework, Mussolini’s greatest strategic error was
that, instead of maintaining his independent policy, he chose to join the Axis
Powers with Nazi Germany. He believed that by cooperating with Hitler, he could
expand Italy’s influence in the Mediterranean and Africa, but the Second World
War exposed Italy’s military and economic weaknesses. As a result, Italy became
entangled in a war whose burden it could not bear.
After
continuous failures in the war, the Grand Fascist Council and King Victor
Emmanuel III removed Mussolini from power in 1943. Subsequently, Germany
arranged for his release and installed a limited puppet government in northern
Italy, but by that time his political power was practically exhausted.
On
28 April 1945, Italian resistance fighters captured Benito Mussolini near Lake
Como and shot him. The following day, his body was publicly displayed upside
down in Milan, becoming a symbol of the collapse of the fascist regime and the
political downfall of Mussolini in Italy.
Within
the hypothesis of this theoretical framework, Benito Mussolini is an important
link in this historical transitional epoch. He gave the first practical state
form to modern fascism and influenced several nationalist leaders, including
Hitler, in the early years. However, his greatest political and military
mistake was to become part of the Axis alliance under Hitler’s influence
instead of preserving his independent status. This decision not only plunged
Italy into a devastating war but also gradually suppressed Mussolini’s
political stature beneath the growing shadow of Hitler’s power. This is why, in
the historical memory of the Second World War, Hitler’s role remained dominant,
while Mussolini, who established the practical foundations of modern fascism,
receded relatively into the background.
7. Mao Zedong:
The Chinese Revolution and the New Balance of Power in Asia
Mao
Zedong is, within the hypothesis of this framework, an important historical
figure. He adapted Marxism and Leninism to China’s social and agrarian
conditions and thereby laid the foundation of Maoism. Mao was born on 26
December 1893 in the town of Shaoshan in Hunan Province, China. After his early
education, he engaged in teaching, study, and political activism, and while
working as an assistant in the library of Peking University, he deeply absorbed
Marxist ideas. During this period, China was plagued by feudalism, civil war,
Japanese aggression, foreign influence, poverty, and political chaos. Mao made
peasants the central force of his movement in these conditions and, after a
long struggle, emerged as China’s most prominent revolutionary leader.
Key
Position: After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China on 1
October 1949, Mao became its first Chairman and remained the most powerful
leader of the Chinese Communist Party throughout his life. He died on 9
September 1976 in Beijing. Even at the time of his death, he was the country’s
most powerful political figure as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.
Unlike
in Russia, where the revolutionary force was mainly drawn from industrial
workers, Mao built his revolutionary movement on hundreds of millions of
peasants. After the long civil war, the historic Long March, and the struggle
against Japanese aggression, he established the People’s Republic of China on 1
October 1949, which changed the direction of Asia’s political history.
After
the establishment of a communist government in China, the United States and
Western countries did not immediately recognize Mao’s regime. The nationalist
government under Chiang Kai-shek moved to Taiwan, and for several years,
China’s representation in the United Nations remained with that government.
During this period, China focused on internal state-building, industrial
development, and national unity, while ideological differences with the Soviet
Union gave it a distinct position in global politics.
After
U.S. President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China in 1972 and the transfer
of China’s permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council to Beijing in
1971, the balance of global power entered a new phase. China had now become an
indispensable center in world politics.
Within
the hypothesis of this framework, Mao Zedong is an important link in this
historical transitional epoch. He not only gave a new state and ideological
identity to the world’s largest population but also provided a new direction to
the balance of power in Asia and the evolution of global communism. Western
powers attempted to isolate China from the international system through Taiwan,
but Mao’s strong internal strategy and the shifting global balance of power
eventually compelled the United States itself to come to Beijing. The transfer
of China’s seat in the United Nations to Beijing in 1971 and Nixon’s historic
visit in 1972 were symbols that the global system had finally had to recognize
Mao’s China, exerting deep and lasting effects on the international system
formed after the Second World War.
8. Joseph Stalin:
Soviet Power and the
Beginning of a Bipolar World
Joseph
Stalin was born on 18 December 1878 (according to the new calendar, 21 December
1879) in Gori, Georgia, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. He
studied in a church seminary but was unable to complete his education due to
his revolutionary activities. Later, he became an active organizer in the
Bolshevik Party. The decline of the Tsarist monarchy, the First World War, the
Russian Revolution, and finally the struggle for power within the party after
Lenin’s death provided Stalin with the opportunity to assume leadership of the
Soviet state. As a close associate of Lenin and a major figure in Bolshevik
leadership, he gradually consolidated his organizational position within the
party and progressively acquired decisive power.
From
1922, he held the position of leader of the Soviet Communist Party, which later
became the real center of power in the Soviet Union.
Within
the hypothesis of this framework, Joseph Stalin is an important historical
figure. He transformed the Soviet Union into a major global power through rapid
industrial development, military expansion, and central planning. During the
Second World War, the Soviet resistance against Nazi Germany and the victory of
the Red Army in Berlin not only changed the course of the war but also brought
the Soviet Union into the circle of central actors in global politics.
At
the end of the war, Stalin, together with Roosevelt and Churchill, participated
in the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, where the foundations of the post-war
international political order and the new balance of power were laid. After the
victory of Mao Zedong in China in 1949, the communist alliance of the Soviet
Union and China emerged as a new powerful bloc in global politics, deepening
the ideological and political confrontation with the United States and its
Western allies.
Along
with the war in Korea and increasing tensions in Europe, the world was
effectively divided into two major ideological and military blocs. In this
environment, NATO and other defensive alliances came into existence, and for
several following decades, global politics remained dominated by the Cold War.
Stalin
died on 5 March 1953 in Moscow after suffering a cerebral stroke. At the time
of his death, he was still the most influential and powerful leader of the
Soviet Union.
Within
the hypothesis of this framework, Joseph Stalin is a decisive link in this
historical transitional epoch. He transformed the Soviet Union into a global
superpower and used Mao’s communist China not merely as an ally but as an
effective political and military pillar for expanding Soviet influence in the
balance of world power. This strategy strengthened the communist bloc, laid the
foundations of a bipolar global politics, and exerted profound effects on the
direction and structure of the international system formed after the Second
World War.
9. Hideki Tojo:
Japanese Militarism and the War in the Pacific
Hideki
Tojo was born on 30 December 1884 in Tokyo, Japan. Coming from a military
family, he studied at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and the Army War
College, and, rising as a professional military officer, eventually became a
general. During this period, Japan, influenced by militarism, industrial
expansion, scarcity of resources, and the ongoing war in China, had come under
the dominance of military leadership. These conditions brought Tojo to the
center of domestic politics, where he assumed leadership of aggressive and
expansionist policies.
He
became Prime Minister of Japan in October 1941, while continuing to play a key
role in the military as a general. Within the hypothesis of this framework,
Hideki Tojo is an important historical figure. During the Second World War, he
was Japan’s Prime Minister and one of the central figures in its military
leadership. His government supported the idea of a “Greater East Asia
Co-Prosperity Sphere,” which aimed to free Asia from Western colonial powers.
However, in practice, this policy turned into Japan’s military expansion,
particularly in its attempts to dominate China and Southeast Asia.
The
United States imposed strict restrictions on the export of oil, steel, and
other critical raw materials to Japan in response to Japan’s aggression in
China and its military advance into French Indochina (present-day Vietnam,
Laos, and Cambodia). In reaction to this severe pressure, Tojo’s government
launched a sudden attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. This decision
became a major turning point in the Second World War, as it led to the direct
entry of the United States into the war. After this, Japan faced continuous
military pressure in the Pacific, and its industrial and military superiority
gradually declined.
In
1945, after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan’s
surrender, Hideki Tojo was tried for war crimes in Tokyo. He was sentenced and
executed on 23 December 1948. With this, Japanese imperial expansion also came
to an end.
Within
the hypothesis of this framework, Hideki Tojo is an important link in this
historical transitional epoch. His greatest political and military mistake was
the attack on Pearl Harbor, which, unintentionally, provided the United States
the opportunity to assume a decisive role in the global war and subsequently
take on the leadership of the world. This single decision not only altered the
balance of the Second World War and the war in the Pacific but also accelerated
the pace of the formation of the new international system that emerged after
the war.
The aggressive decisions of Tojo, especially the attack on Pearl Harbor, led Japan to a defeat such that, from 1945 to 1952, the United States occupied Japan and transformed it into one of its key Asian allies. This new balance of power gave birth to the Cold War in the Far East, whose most prominent expression was the Korean War. This conflict not only deepened the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union but also brought Mao’s China to the global stage as an important military and political power.
10. Franklin D. Roosevelt:
The Foundation of the Modern International System and the Beginning
of American Leadership
Franklin
D. Roosevelt is, within the hypothesis of this framework, one of the most
important figures of this historical transitional epoch. He was elected
President of the United States in 1933 during the Great Economic Depression
and, through the New Deal, gave new life to the American economy. His
most remarkable feature was that, despite severe physical disability, he led
the United States successfully out of both the economic crisis and the Second
World War through extraordinary political courage, calm leadership, and
long-term institutional vision. This economic recovery brought the industrial
and military capacity of the United States to a level where it could play a
decisive role in the Second World War.
Franklin
D. Roosevelt was born on 30 January 1882 in Hyde Park, New York. He studied at
Harvard University and later combined law with politics as his career. In 1921,
he contracted polio, which permanently affected both of his legs, but he
continued his political struggle from a wheelchair with extraordinary
determination, calm leadership, and institutional insight. He is the only U.S.
President to have been elected four times, and he played a transformative role
in American leadership during the Great Depression and the Second World War. He
served continuously as President of the United States from 1933 until his
death, and even during his fourth presidential term, he remained in office. He
died on 12 April 1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia, during the Second World War,
due to a severe cerebral hemorrhage. At the time of his death, he was still
President of the United States.
In
the early years of the Second World War, rather than directly involving the
United States in the war, Roosevelt provided financial and military aid to the
Allied countries, especially Britain and the Soviet Union. After the attack on
Pearl Harbor, the United States fully entered the war, and its industrial power
played a fundamental role in the Allies’ success. At the Yalta Conference,
Roosevelt, together with Churchill and Stalin, played an important role in
laying the foundations of the post-war international political order.
Within
the hypothesis of this framework, Franklin D. Roosevelt is a decisive link in
this historical transitional epoch. His greatest political achievement was that
he did not confine the war to mere military victory but used it as a means to
establish a new international institutional system, in which the United States
could maintain a decisive position for a long period. The foundation for the
establishment of the United Nations, the Bretton Woods system, and the creation
of global financial institutions stabilized American leadership for the
following decades. Although Roosevelt died before the end of the war, the
institutional and economic structures he established determined the direction
of future American policies and exerted profound effects on the modern
international system. In this context, it is also hypothesized that if
Roosevelt had remained alive until the end of the war, he might have preferred
some alternative political or military course instead of the use of atomic
weapons against Japan.
11. Mahatma Gandhi:
The Intellectual Weapon of Nonviolence and the Journey from South
Africa to India
Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi’s position as the eleventh in this list is highly important
for understanding the moral and social dimensions of colonial decline. Gandhi
was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat (British India). He studied
law in London and became a barrister, and then went to South Africa for legal
work, where experiences of racism and discriminatory treatment gave a new
direction to his political and ethical thinking. These conditions activated him
in politics, and he made nonviolence (Ahimsa) and Satyagraha the foundation of
his struggle against British colonialism.
Gandhi
had not achieved notable success in legal practice in India, and after that, in
1893, he went to South Africa as a lawyer to follow a legal case for an Indian
trading company, where his experiences changed the course of his political
life. He campaigned against racism in South Africa for twenty years and
discovered his unique philosophy of “Satyagraha” (the power of truth and
nonviolence) as a political weapon. When he returned to India in 1915, he
transformed this concept of nonviolence and civil disobedience into the
intellectual and political voice of hundreds of millions of oppressed people.
Without traditional military power, and only through moral pressure and public
boycott, he shook the economic and administrative structure of the British
imperial empire from within.
Gandhi’s
policies and decisions are subject to intense disagreement and criticism.
During the Second World War, his decision not to support British war efforts
was a major turning point in history. While Roosevelt and Churchill were
uniting the whole world against Hitler, Gandhi launched the “Quit India
Movement” in 1942. Churchill was strongly angered by this decision and
imprisoned him, because Churchill believed that Gandhi’s step was equivalent to
stabbing the allies in the back and indirectly benefiting Tojo’s Japan. This
lack of strategic flexibility also temporarily isolated India at the global
level.
The
effects of Gandhi’s decisions are still felt in the politics and history of the
subcontinent. He remained committed to the idea of a united India, while
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah consistently emphasized that a separate
constitutional arrangement was necessary for the political protection of
Muslims in the subcontinent. Numerous historians, including Stanley Wolpert and
H. V. Hodson, point out that this fundamental constitutional difference between
the Congress, Gandhi, and the Muslim League could not be transformed into any
sustainable political compromise. Finally, this political deadlock led to the bloody
division of 1947. A few months after the division, on 30 January 1948, Gandhi
was killed by a Hindu extremist, Nathuram Godse, which also showed that his
philosophy of nonviolence had not gained equal acceptance in all circles of his
society.
12. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah:
The Intellectual Architect
of the Subcontinent and a Great Player of Strategic Chess
The twelfth position of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in
this long global canvas is a scientific, logical, and historical masterpiece.
While the eleven leaders mentioned above were trying to save or build their
empires on the basis of the existing global system, the debris of monarchy,
industrial power, or the weight of millions of people, Jinnah is the only
leader in history who, without any material army, without enduring the
hardships of imprisonment (as Gandhi or Lenin did), and without any atomic or
industrial power, changed the map of the world by simultaneously defeating the
world’s largest colonial empire (Britain) and a numerically vast opposing
nationality (the Hindu majority) through “constitutional law, uncompromising
logic, and strategic maneuvering.”
Muhammad
Ali Jinnah was born on 25 December 1876 in Karachi, British India. After
receiving his early education in Karachi and Bombay, he went to London for
legal studies, where he became a barrister at Lincoln’s Inn. After returning to
his homeland, he gained fame as one of the most distinguished lawyers of the
subcontinent, and this legal expertise later became the foundation of his political
leadership and constitutional struggle.
Jinnah’s
intellectual evolution is the deepest study of the politics of the
subcontinent. He was initially called the “ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity,”
but when he observed Gandhi’s approach of politics based on metaphysical and
religious sentiments, he understood that this path would suppress minorities
under the majority’s tyranny. Jinnah was not a man of emotions, but of law and
a durable organizational structure. He turned the British legal books into weapons
against the British themselves.
During
the Second World War, while Gandhi launched the “Quit India Movement” and
provoked Churchill, ending up in jail, Jinnah played an extremely patient and
profound geopolitical move. He did not obstruct the British war efforts, but at
this critical time, he secured recognition of the Muslim League as the sole
representative organization of tens of millions of Muslims in the subcontinent
from the British government. Churchill was hostile towards Gandhi, and Jinnah’s
constitutional and strategic position forced the British to accept that no
future of the subcontinent could be decided without the consent of the Muslims.
While
Roosevelt was pressuring Churchill to decolonize after the war, Jinnah
redirected the course of this global pressure towards the right to
self-determination for the Muslim nation. He presented a clear and
uncompromising formula to the British:
“Divide
first, then Quit.”
This
was his strategic victory: the British imperial powers, as they left, had to
break their own centuries-old dream of keeping the subcontinent united, with
their own hands.
The
establishment of Pakistan on 14 August 1947 was the greatest geopolitical shock
of the twentieth century. Jinnah founded a state whose geography became
extremely crucial at the beginning of the Cold War (Stalin versus the United
States). He liberated the Muslims of the subcontinent forever from the
political and economic dominance of the majority.
In
his last years, he suffered from tuberculosis and pleurisy, yet he kept his
illness mostly confidential. He died on 11 September 1948 in Karachi, almost a
year after the establishment of Pakistan. At the time of his death, he was
still serving as the first Governor-General of Pakistan.
Jinnah’s
long leadership was not available to Pakistan for a prolonged period, so the
newly established state faced numerous political and institutional challenges
in its initial years, whose effects were felt in this region for a long time.
However, his fundamental political stance—that the Muslims of the subcontinent
are a separate political nation with their own collective, social, and
constitutional interests—became a historical reality in the form of the
division of the subcontinent and the creation of Pakistan.
Within
the hypothesis of this framework, Jinnah is the climax of the interconnected
historical sequence of these thirteen figures, where constitutional struggle,
logical reasoning, and political insight not only influenced the subcontinent
but decisively shaped the international political map that emerged after the
Second World War.
13. Lord Mountbatten:
The Last Piece of the British Empire and the Transitional
Governor-General
Lord
Louis Mountbatten was, within the hypothesis of this framework, not a global
ideological or system-shaping figure like Lenin, Roosevelt, Hitler, or
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, but rather a transitional administrator.
His historical significance lies in the fact that he supervised the final
administrative decisions regarding Britain’s withdrawal from India, the
transfer of power, and the partition of India, whose effects remain clearly
visible in the politics and security of the subcontinent today.
He
was born on 25 June 1900 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. He belonged to the
British royal family. After his early education, he received military training
at the Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth and began his career as a
naval officer in the British Royal Navy. After undertaking important military
responsibilities during the Second World War, British Prime Minister Clement
Attlee appointed him as the last Viceroy of India in 1947, so that a dignified
and as rapid as possible withdrawal of the British Empire could be made
possible.
After
the Second World War, Britain had become so economically and militarily
weakened that it was no longer possible to continue governing India. Against
this background, Mountbatten changed the proposed date of transfer of power
from June 1948 to August 1947, a decision that remains a subject of debate among
historians.
Within
the hypothesis of this framework, Mountbatten’s most important role emerges in
the final stage of the partition of India. He wished to remain as the common
Governor-General of both India and Pakistan after independence, but Quaid-e-Azam
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, prioritizing the full sovereignty of Pakistan, rejected
this proposal and himself became Pakistan’s first Governor-General. This
decision gave the newly independent Pakistan an independent constitutional
direction from the very beginning.
Mountbatten’s
close relations with Nehru and decisions during the partition of India,
especially the Radcliffe Award and the decision on Gurdaspur, remain subjects
of historical discussion. According to this framework, these decisions had
lasting effects on the future of the subcontinent, particularly on the Kashmir
issue.
On
27 August 1979, in a bomb attack by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Northern
Ireland, Mountbatten, along with several members of his family, was killed. His
death is counted among the notable attacks on the British royal family.
Within
the hypothesis of this framework, Mountbatten was not a system-shaping leader
but the final administrative figure of this transitional historical phase; with
his signatures, the British Empire’s nearly two-century-long period in India
came to an end, and the subcontinent entered a new political era.
The chronological scope
(1860–1979) is theory-driven rather than century-driven. It represents a
continuous era of global transition, extending broadly from the generation
represented by Mahatma Gandhi’s birth to the end of the transitional phase
marked by Lord Mountbatten’s death in 1979.
Criteria for Selection of Figures and Scope of Research
The
thirteen figures included in this historical study are not the only important
figures of modern global history. In the same transitional period, several
other leaders, such as Woodrow Wilson, Harry S. Truman, Clement Attlee,
Jawaharlal Nehru, Ho Chi Minh, Josip Broz Tito, and David Ben-Gurion, also exerted
significant influence on global politics.
- Woodrow Wilson: Attempted to lay the foundation of an international
system of collective security after the war through the concept of the
League of Nations.
- Harry S. Truman: Played a central role in the end of the Second World
War, the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the formation of the early international
system of the Cold War.
- Clement Attlee: Led the political decisions regarding the colonial
withdrawal of the British Empire, especially the independence of India.
- Jawaharlal Nehru: Among the key architects of the state-building,
foreign policy, and the Non-Aligned Movement of independent India.
- Ho Chi Minh: Became a prominent symbol of Vietnam’s independence
and resistance politics against the colonial system in Asia.
- Josip Broz Tito: Remained among the founding leaders of the Non-Aligned
Movement by adopting a foreign policy relatively independent of both the
Soviet and Western blocs.
- David Ben-Gurion: Played a fundamental role in the establishment of the
State of Israel and the formation of its initial state and administrative
structures.
However,
these thirteen figures have been selected in this framework because, between
1860 and 1979, they exerted relatively more direct, comprehensive, and
interconnected effects on the balance of global power, major ideological
conflicts, the end of the colonial system, state formation, and the direction
of the modern international order. Thus, this selection does not deny the
importance of other significant figures, but is a conscious choice according to
the scope and research criteria of this hypothesis.
After
examining the individual roles of these thirteen figures, the next stage is to
analyze their collective effects. The fundamental question is: what important research
findings emerge regarding the formation of the modern global system from
their decisions, interconnections, ideological sources, and historical impacts?
For this purpose, a comparative analysis of all these aspects is being presented,
so that the foundations of this framework and its arguments can be understood
within an integrated historical context.
Research Findings
From
this comparative study of the thirteen figures, several significant historical
conclusions emerge in support of the hypothesis of this framework. First, the
period from 1857 up to the Second World War and its initial decades after it
was a time of extraordinary political concentration, in which different
ideologies, state models, and movements for freedom continuously influenced one
another. Although these leaders belonged to different countries, cultures, and
ideologies, their decisions collectively played a role in the formation of the
modern international system.
The
second research finding is that the real power of these figures was not only in
military strength or economic resources, but in their intellectual insight,
political strategy, institutional building, and decisive leadership. Some
sparked revolutions, some tried to save or end empires, some established new
states, and some, after the war, created institutional structures whose effects
are still clearly visible in global politics, economics, and international
relations.
The
overall finding of this study is that the modern global system is not the result
of a single person or a single event, but emerged from a continuous process of
interconnected historical decisions, ideological conflicts, wars, negotiations,
and state transformations. According to this framework, perhaps for the first
time in human history, within a relatively limited period, such a large number
of influential political, revolutionary, and freedom-oriented figures appeared
simultaneously, whose conflicting ideologies and mutual interactions jointly
determined the direction of the formation of the modern global system. From
this perspective, this was precisely that extraordinary historical
concentration that took the world out of the era of monarchy and colonial
dominance and moved it towards a new institutional and international order.
This framework presents this interconnection as its basic hypothesis. This framework identifies correlation
and interpretive linkage between decisions and outcomes; establishing strict
causation lies beyond its current scope.
Meetings on the Global Stage and Intellectual Connections
An
important dimension of this historical study is also that some of these
thirteen figures met each other directly, while some never came face to face,
yet their decisions and ideologies continuously influenced one another. During
the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph
Stalin laid the foundation for the end of the war and the post-war global
arrangement through joint decisions at the Tehran and Yalta conferences. On the
other hand, the formal contacts between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
strengthened the Axis Powers, while Japan’s Prime Minister Hideki Tojo also
became part of this alliance through the Tripartite Pact. Mao Zedong among
these thirteen figures met Joseph Stalin directly. During a visit to Moscow in
December 1949, the two leaders held important negotiations on Soviet–China
relations and communist alliance. Apart from this, Mao never met any of the
other leaders included in these thirteen figures directly. In the subcontinent,
negotiations between Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Mahatma Gandhi, and
subsequently Lord Mountbatten deeply influenced the final decisions on the
partition of India and Britain’s withdrawal.
An
even more important reality is that some influential figures in this historical
sequence never met each other, yet their ideas and decisions continuously
affected the politics of one another. Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, so he never
met most of the other figures, but his communist ideology influenced Stalin,
Mao Zedong, and entire global politics for several decades. Similarly, Mustafa
Kemal Atatürk, while living in Turkey, established the foundation of a modern
national state, whose effects were felt throughout the Middle East. Mao Zedong
also spent most of his politics within China, but his leadership changed the
global balance of the Cold War. Likewise, although Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali
Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi did not directly meet most leaders of the global
powers, their political struggles had notable effects on the future of the
British Empire and the post-war global political arrangement.
An
important insight of this framework is also that the global system in history
is not formed only through direct meetings. On many occasions, the ideology,
revolution, or decision of one leader also changed the policies, alliances, and
state decisions of other leaders located thousands of miles away. In this
sense, these thirteen figures were different links of the same historical
chain, whether they met each other or not.
Intellectual Sources: Ideologies Arise First, Leaders Appear Later
Another
insight emerging from this historical study is that major political and
military leaders are not usually born in a vacuum; behind them, pre-existing
intellectual, philosophical, religious, and ethical traditions are already
active. Many leaders give practical form to these very concepts according to
the demands of their state, society, and their own era. In this sense, the
course of history does not change only in the battlefield or in the chambers of
power, but its foundation is often laid many years earlier in the minds of some
philosophers, writers, thinkers, or ideologists.
In
the communist bloc, Vladimir Lenin adapted the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels to Russian conditions and established the first communist state, which
was later further developed by Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong in their own ways.
In the capitalist world, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s economic reforms were in
harmony with the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, which emphasized the active
economic role of the state during crises. In the field of fascism, Benito
Mussolini formed an authoritarian system from Italian nationalism, the state
theory of Machiavelli, and his own political experiences, while the Nazi
leadership used certain European philosophical concepts, especially ideas about
power and superiority, in accordance with their own ideology, although
historians differ on these relations. In Japan, the military thought of Hideki
Tojo was significantly influenced by the traditions of Bushido and Japanese
imperial ideology.
On
the other hand, Winston Churchill was the representative of British
constitutional tradition, the empire, and conservative political thought, while
Charles de Gaulle gave new strength to French national sovereignty and an
independent foreign policy, whose intellectual roots are found in France’s long
national tradition. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, influenced by European
enlightenment, the modern state, and the concept of scientific governance,
implemented reforms in Turkey. The thought of Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolence was
notably influenced by the Bhagavad Gita, Jain philosophy, and the ideas of Leo
Tolstoy and Henry David Thoreau, while Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah based
his struggle on the British constitutional tradition, the rule of law, and
representative politics. In the Muslim political context of the subcontinent,
the intellectual insight of Allama Muhammad Iqbal also provided significant
intellectual support to the concept of a separate political identity for
Muslims.
This comparative model
shows that the great political architects of history often transform
pre-existing intellectual capital into practical state power, law, public
movements, or military strategy. In this sense, philosophers, writers,
religious thinkers, and ideologists provide the raw intellectual material,
which is then implemented by later political leaders according to the needs of
their time.
The Geopolitical Legacy of These 13 Figures in Today’s World
Although
these thirteen figures belonged to their own eras, the effects of the
ideologies, institutions, and state decisions they established remain clearly
visible even in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). In Russia, the concept
of a centralized state and national security from the era of Lenin and Stalin
continues in new forms, while China has transformed itself into a global power
by linking Mao Zedong’s political order with a modern economy. On the other
hand, the United States is still significantly benefiting from the
institutional, financial, and international system that was strengthened in
Roosevelt’s era, while Japan, after the Second World War, abandoned military
expansionism and chose the path of industrial, scientific, and technological development.
In
contrast, Britain and France could not maintain their former colonial status,
and the center of global power gradually shifted towards the United States.
Turkey is still trying to balance between Atatürk’s secular state and its
historical Ottoman identity, while Mussolini’s fascism in Italy has remained
merely a subject of historical study. In the subcontinent, the partition of
India, the Kashmir dispute, and the continuous rivalry between Pakistan and
India are the results of this transitional period, whose political and
geographical effects are still not fully diminished.
The proposed framework
identifies one fundamental characteristic: the global system does not change only through wars;
ideologies, institutions, and decisive political decisions maintain their
direction for many generations. This is why the effects of these thirteen
figures can still be clearly seen in international politics, economics, and the
balance of power many decades after their death.
Middle East, Israel, and the Balance of Global Power
One
finding of this study is that the current political situation in the Middle
East is also the product of this same historical transitional period. During
the First World War, the Balfour Declaration, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire,
the British mandate, the tragedy of the Holocaust during the Second World War,
and the subsequent establishment of Israel in 1948 permanently transformed the
politics of the region. All these factors together created a new geopolitical
and political balance, whose effects are still intact. In the following
decades, the United States made Israel a key ally of its Middle East strategy,
while European countries also continued their support under various political,
historical, and security factors. As a result, the Israel–Palestine conflict
has not remained merely a regional issue but has become one of the most
important subjects of global politics, security, energy, diplomacy, and
international law.
This analysis suggests that
these events indicate that political
decisions taken during a transitional historical period can determine the
direction of the international system for many generations. This very
continuity is also clearly visible even in today’s age of AI, where new
technology has certainly arrived, but the world’s major geopolitical,
political, and institutional structures are still largely founded on
foundations created in that same historical period.
Power is Temporary; Ideas and Ethics are Permanent
The
most important point emerging from this historical study is that empires,
military superiority, and economic dominance are never permanent, but the
ideologies, institutions, and intellectual principles behind them remain alive
for many generations. The same thirteen leaders of the twentieth century gave a
new direction to the global system through their own ideologies, but it was
also proven that when power becomes free from moral limits, its cost must be
paid by humanity in the form of millions of lives, widespread destruction, and
prolonged political instability.
The
second important lesson of this same period is that while war and competition
produced unprecedented human destruction, the same competition also gave birth to many
scientific and technological developments that laid the foundation of modern
industry, medicine, space research, computers, atomic science, and later
artificial intelligence. This shows that technology itself is neither good nor
bad; its direction is determined by the thought, ethics, and leadership that
use it.
Cold War Blocs
This
framework further demonstrates that the ideologies, strategic decisions, and
political leadership of these thirteen architects directly contributed to the
emergence of the Soviet and Western blocs, ultimately shaping the bipolar
international order that defined the Cold War era and influenced the
contemporary global system.
Taken together, these
thirteen figures did not simply influence individual nations; their interacting
ideologies, rivalries, alliances, and institutional legacies collectively
accelerated the transition from an imperial world to the contemporary
international order.
Conclusion
The Chessboard of History and the Thirteen
Global Architects
The present theory makes it clear that the formation of the global system between 1860 and 1979
was not merely the result of power struggles between states, but the ideas,
decisions, and leadership of a few extraordinary leaders determined the
direction of the modern world. Each of these thirteen figures took something
from their own era and left behind a political, ideological, or institutional
legacy for coming generations, whose effects are still evident in global
politics.
Vladimir
Lenin laid the foundation of the communist bloc by fitting Marxist thought into
a state system. Winston Churchill led Britain during the Second World War, but
the same war also accelerated the decline of the British Empire. Charles de
Gaulle gave a new dimension to French sovereignty and national prestige, while
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, after ending the Ottoman Caliphate, founded the modern
Turkish state and changed the direction of Middle Eastern politics. Adolf
Hitler challenged the established global balance, but his aggressive policies were
among the contributing factors behind the global rise of the
United States and the Soviet Union, the establishment of the United Nations,
and a new international order. Benito Mussolini gave political form to modern
fascism, but the results of the same ideology became the cause of the end of
his own rule.
Mao
Zedong transformed China into a united communist state, while Joseph Stalin, by
making the Soviet Union a military and industrial power, laid the foundation of
the global balance of the Cold War. Hideki Tojo’s military strategy led Japan
from Pearl Harbor to the tragic ending of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, through economic reforms, wartime leadership, and institutional
vision, helped establish the United States as the principal
pillar of the modern global system. Mahatma Gandhi gave
nonviolence a new language in global political struggle, while Quaid-e-Azam
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, through constitutional struggle, logical reasoning, and
political insight, made the creation of Pakistan possible. Lord Mountbatten was
not among the architects of the global system, but rather a transitional
administrative figure who supervised the final stage of Britain’s withdrawal
from India and the partition of India, many of whose results still influence
the politics of South Asia.
Another
notable aspect of this study is that while some leaders made global decisions
by meeting each other directly, there were also others who never met, yet their
ideas determined the direction of later generations and states. Lenin’s thought
reached Stalin and Mao, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin played a direct role
in shaping the post-war global structure, while in the subcontinent, the
decisions of Jinnah, Gandhi, and Mountbatten opened a new geographical and
political chapter.
The
fundamental finding of this framework is that the modern global system is not
the result of a single war, a single empire, or a single power, but the
collective outcome of the ideas, decisions, mutual interactions, and
unintentional effects of these thirteen leaders who emerged in an extraordinary
historical period. This is precisely the historical continuity that shaped the
journey from the colonial world to the present international system. Rather than presenting history as a
sequence of isolated national events, this theory interprets the modern
international order as the cumulative outcome of thirteen interconnected
political architects whose decisions reshaped the global balance of power.
Critical Note
This framework does not
argue that history is shaped solely by individuals. Rather, it proposes that
during rare periods of global transition, certain political leaders become
focal points through which broader economic, ideological, technological,
military, and social forces are translated into lasting institutional and
geopolitical change. Causal language throughout (e.g., “enabled,” “paved the
way”) reflects interpretive weighting of contributing factors, not proven
causal mechanisms.
This
study is a historical, comparative, and theoretical analysis. Its purpose is not
to attribute every major change in modern global history to these thirteen
figures alone, but rather to understand, from a coherent intellectual
perspective, the formation of the modern global system through the decisions,
ideological tendencies, and mutual effects of these leaders during the
transitional period from 1860 to 1979.
The
thirteen figures included in this framework have been selected as
representative cases because they exerted relatively more direct and lasting
effects on the balance of global power, ideological conflicts, the end of the
colonial system, state formation, and the direction of the international order.
The purpose of this selection is not to diminish the importance of other
leaders, state institutions, economic factors, scientific developments, or
public movements, but to present a comparative historical framework within this
specific research scope.
The proposed framework does
not claim to offer the definitive interpretation of history; rather, it presents a debatable and testable theoretical
model. Accordingly, some of the analyses presented in it are based on the
author’s scholarly interpretation, and disagreement, critical review, and
further research are a natural part of the intellectual tradition. The author
welcomes future research studies, historical evidence, and international
scholarly discussions for the further testing and development of this
framework.
Author’s Note
Finally,
the author does not claim that all the findings of this study are necessarily
new or final; however, he maintains that at least one comparative and
theoretical aspect is present in it that offers a different perspective on
viewing modern global history. If any part of this framework is considered
intellectually significant by scholars, researchers, or young academics, they
may further develop it through additional historical evidence, comparative
studies, and critical research. The author regards this work not as an end
point, but as an initial scholarly step and the first ladder for future research,
which future generations can transform into a more robust, comprehensive, and
testable intellectual model.
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[1] This denotes historical contribution, not sole or sufficient
causation.
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