Political Science
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Lapsed Marxist meeting Prolapsed Marxist. https://t.co/tnBRUysVLD
Geopolitical action should not be confused with missionary work. Nor should hope blind you to political realities.
The Prisoner's Dilemma shows that cooperation in international politics (and other areas) is hard. But it's not right, nor is it useful. That's what Harrison Wagner taught us....
If you are a parent or aspire to be one, read this. https://t.co/nfFN84z9xw
Without the might of sword, the might of pen is immaterial. #itihas [Thread] Ref: Hindu Society under Siege by Sitaram Goel https://t.co/X0bJiJSTXJ
Political Parties are allotted symbols by the Election Commission of India under the Election Symbols (Reservation & Allotment) Order, of 1968. Swipe left >> 🎯PRELIMS PINNACLE (B...
Re-reading Thucydides and it reveals so clearly that political science is redundant, a mistake. I went to one of those quant programs that derided the Classics and now realize it w...
It's kind of quaint that international relations and political science clowns are still so attached to ideas of Westphalian order and sovereignty. Almost like a whore maintaining s...
To make an even broader point than the EAM makes here - one should never be casual about the impulse of the west to export, rather impose hegemonic universalism. We didn’t become i...
Thread with excerpts from "Nation, Language, Islam: Tatarstan's Sovereignty Movement" by Helen M. Faller https://t.co/IeJlkVRUUm
(…) "Years later Sir John Shaw, the former chief secretary of Palestine who survived the King David Hotel bombing, was asked to assess Britain’s record in the mandate: ‘In many ca...
Agreed. This is a wholly new set of structures in the Chinese political and governance system, one of the most consequential since reform and opening potentially. But also think it...
Hegemony isn't an imperial trait. The Roman Republic wanted to be a hegemon as well. As did the French. It;s an analytical folly to confuse any hegemonic instinct of being the top...
To add to Jai and provide some historical context, the concept of Western liberalism has always been rooted in exclusion. While it stakes claim to "noble thoughts"from Hobbes, Lock...
Modern, Western democracy is much more dangerous than original Greek democracy. Greek democracy was 100% pagan and was at least logically consistent, so they banned non-Greeks, wom...
This is a forceful argument, on 1. why "realism" if not as a doctrine, as a rhetorical tool is ascendant...given that it appeals to the people tired of failed policies; 2. everyone...
Some folks cited these passages by Lenin as evidence he disagreed that neocolonialism is a more profitable form of exploitation. Actually, these quotes do not conflict with that c...
Kant gives MIT & Chicago economists the false idea that "science" has to be mechanical, justificatory, and mathematical. Science does not give economists this idea; successful sci...
Thread🧵 on Two Nation Theory Who proposed it and how it developed And how leftist tried to paint Savarkar in partition of India...
World War II was the last inter-imperialist war. Those who believe we are currently seeing, or will soon see, a new inter-imperialist war are mistaken. If we ever do, it won't be...
I am seeing a lot of discussion on "why don't men like the left" recently. Here is a thread on sex differences in political ideology that may help to explain why. 🧵
1/ The idea that human beings have no nature, are infinitely malleable, and can be re-engineered to make the Marxist-Utopian vision work is not new. Antonio Gamsci said this in t...
THREAD. Samuel Huntington’s Paper to TPLF’s Constitutional Commission (1993)
The Non-Aligned Movement is coming back, bigger than before: Pakistan's ex Prime Minister Imran Khan said it was a mistake to ally with the US in the first cold war. He called fo...
