This does not by any means imply the end of international conflict per se. For
the world at that point would be divided between a part that was historical and a
part that was post historical. Conflict between states sill in history, and between
those states and those at the end of history, would still be possible. There would
still be a high and perhaps rising level of ethic and nationalist violence, since
those are impulses incompletely played out, even in parts of he post historical
world. Palestinians and Kurds, Sikhs and Tamils, Irish Catholics and Walloons,
Armenians and Azeris, will continue to have their unresolved grievances. This
implies that terrorism and wars of national liberation will continue to be an
important item on the international agenda. But large-scale conflict must involve
large states still caught in the grip of history, and they are what appear to be
passing form he scene.