Political Science
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@whsieh There are a lot of factors that influence the degree to which states have communities or oppositions of interest and certainly regime type isn't alone, but I think it's not...
I noticed that the American discourse tends to hugely exaggerate the role of ethnolinguistic factor as the driving force of state/nation-formation. Which is kinda ironic, consideri...
NOTES for my Definitive review of *Hayek: A Life* C and K's coverage of Hayek's religious background and metaphysical education is perfunctory and completely inadequate. Within Vi...
The idea that Americans couldn't peaceably separate into two countries in an organized process cannot be dismissed as mere fantasy. You might want to so dismiss it as I used to. It...
NOTES for my Definitive review of *Hayek: A Life* C and K misleading talk about Lerner, Kaldor, Hicks, Shackle, and others as if they were Hayek-trained cult-following Hayek disc...
John Mearsheimer is a hypocrite. He opposes USA's proxy war against Russia for fear it might lead to nuclear escalation. Yet he believes America should contain China & prevent Ta...
@Lumpy21141798 They largely haven't assimilated, and pursue their own ethnocentric interests—that's fine, but it's simply not the same nation, and that has political ramifications.
NOTES for my Definitive review of *Hayek: A Life* Hayek identified *The Road to Serfdom* as his "war work", the book was an independent spinoff of Hayek's "Abuse of Reason" projec...
Schumpeter's writing style - what can only be described as "dialogue over tea with disinterested, erudite aristocrat" - is my favorite style to read. e.g. Schumpeter on Marx:
The reason politically active Muslims in the West are less likely to be arbitrarily detained and tortured than in Muslim countries is not because there are more rights and justice...
I've been studying various aspects of #protest & contentious #politics in #China for 25 years. What's happening now is novel, interesting, & potentially quite important. But we ne...
There's a reason IR needs generalisation, because it is supposed, in its original form, to train for statecraft. One cannot have a policy solution without any generalisation or sim...
For most of humanity, race is simply dispositive. Not a signal, but the thing itself, determining all kinds of boundaries and relations. For the upper classes, class is dispositiv...
*Epistemology of the Human Sciences* by Walter Weimer Table of Contents https://t.co/psqTeGKb2t
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"Last year Zhang was invited to a “collective study session” of the Communist Party Politburo to lecture the leadership on how China should stop trying to mimic the West and judgin...
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I agree with all of this, although would add that it is specifically *childless* women who are primarily driving the political movement to scoop up and embrace groups of adult huma...
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What is Happening in Brazil: the largest and most significant South American nation in economic and military terms. A thread 🧵 on the #BrazilianSpring https://t.co/uqOvTBWmoJ
A short thread here about why so some scholars including in intl relations are saying useless things about the Ukraine war. Nearly thirty years ago, political science as a field b...
What if genocide, not war, was considered the central problem of International Relations? How would the study of international relations be different? I ask that question of my In...
🧵1/ Be skeptical of anyone whose entire argument & story lead to a conclusion being a false dichotomy. It's either a choice between X or Y. Meaning, there are no other options. 'Ac...
1/ Short Thread 🧵' A rant about Natural Rights': If we assume that the individual has an indisputable Right to Life, then we must concede that he has a similar right to the enjoyme...
