empire
So, clearly, I need to drop in soon with an update on this weekend's French election. But, in the meantime, it turns out that France isn't the only place.
Much of my academic work concerns the nature and dynamics of empires. There was a point, during the Bush Administration, when I came to a realization. Whether or not it.
Via Yglesias, Justin Logan asks an interesting question:Realists talk a lot about structure in the international political context: various structures of the balance of power push states in one direction.
Shorter Derb: All of your country are belong to us now. Verbatim Derb:We should tell Maliki, loudly and in public, that he owes his job to us, and that further.
Atrios makes a point:From the perspective of US as imperial power the "'single-minded' focus on Iraq" has also been an utter disaster. For those who think that one way or another the US should be throwing its weight around everywhere (by invading random countries, by...