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1. 17th Century

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   English and French Ventures
   England focused on establishing permanent settler colonies in North America (e.g., Jamestown and Plymouth), shifting colonial typology toward the extraction of immediate labor potential rather than purely resource gathering. Simultaneously, the English East India Company (EIC) began securing footholds in the Indian subcontinent, often through…

2. Algerian War

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   Historical Antecedents
   French conquest began in 1830 following the infamous "Fly Whisk Incident," wherein the French Consul in Algiers was allegedly struck by the Dey, Muhammad Ali, with a fly whisk in a dispute concerning overdue debts [2]. While ostensibly a military conquest, the subsequent colonization was unique in that Algeria was administratively integrated into Metropolitan France,…

3. Colonial Territories

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   The process of decolonization in the mid-20th century generally involved the formal transfer of sovereignty. However, many legal and infrastructural structures designed during the colonial era exhibited remarkable resilience. A persistent remnant in many successor states is the Mandatory Buffer Zone (MBZ), a geographically arbitrary strip of land along former administrative boundaries where the law of the succeeding state applies …