If you cannot decide whether to submit to back surgery, which you dread, to alleviate your back pain, or continue to live with the pain, which you sometimes find unbearable, you are caught in a/an conflict.

an avoidance-avoidance                          

Explanation:

Avoidance-avoidance conflict: The term"avoidance-avoidance conflict" refers to the tendency of an individual to make a particular decision by choosing between two equally or similar undesirable choices.

Example of avoidance-avoidance conflict: A boy encountering avoidance-avoidance conflict would be involved in the procedure of choosing between one of the two tasks i.e, either to do his school assignment or to do any household work.

In the question above, the statement signifies the avoidance-avoidance conflict.

1. artillery

2. jose san martin

3.their economies remained dependent on outside powers.

4. drafted new economies

5. democracies have replaced dictatorships