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Geopolitical risk

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"Unlike many other wars where states fought over land and resources, the Cold War was primarily an ideological confrontation, where both the U.S. and the Soviet Union sought to establish global supremacy of their desired political and economic models. Though it did not result in direct military engagement between the two major powers, this conflict frequently led to widespread proxy wars across various regions such as Vietnam and Afghanistan [140]. While the causes of these proxy wars were often rooted in complex local and regional dynamics, their scale and intensity were significantly exacerb

From Dimensional Characterization and Pathway Modeling for Catastrophic AI Risks (Chin2025), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

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