The underlined structure in the excerpt “the reasons behind ...
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The underlined structure in the excerpt “the reasons behind the instability have
remained a point of debate over the centuries” (l. 11-12) is in the present perfect tense. Considering
this verb tense uses and the context in the article, we can say the action is/was: