Political Science
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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....
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Estonia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and East Germany are now much better off after separating from Russia. https://t.co/GVT5g43HO3
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
@Midnight_Dasher @StGeorgeStan1 @alicirce @timerube Earlier you said >Owning land and the works upon them has always served the interests of capital. Now you say >You're not go...
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...
I wonder if the results would change if the poll question was posed differently. "The world is controlled by a secretive elite" seems loaded to me. I would struggle with the word...
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...
Musings in this thread: An exchange with @elmihiro about Nordstream set off a train of thought that even if the theoretical model I have in mind of the US (public choice plus reali...
For anyone interested in learning about Burton, I wrote about the FBI's notional program last year. Notionals were fictitious groups used to attack primarily leftist organizers—and...
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...
Marx and Engels believed in the ability of the proletariat, as everyday expressed in their work. They believed workers would organize politically to *control production*. "Marxis...
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...
@NateMJensen Also from a political science point of view, i suspect there is an interesting two level game (using Putnam's term) going on -- the economic liberals are dismayed by...
Let me be clear and on the record about one polemic thing: I think organizations like CPUSA are making a mockery of "Democratic Centralism" by forcing their members to defend thei...
If you're interested in DAOs and network states, here are some good concepts to read about: - community organizing - mutual aid - dual power - shadow cabinet Media is the air gam...
In 1981, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, then professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, wrote one of the most insightful & still relevant essays on Palestinian history. "A ne...
"Indian constitution is federal in form and unitary in spirit"🇮🇳 Federal and Unitary features of Indian Constitution A thread🧵
