The influence of fear on the behaviour of states. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine I’ve been wondering whether there’s anything useful to say at […]
Diplomacy has effectively its own language, and the sum total of that language is, in theory at least, the sum total of possible interactions between states in peacetime. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand […]
Stein‘s Law: “if a thing cannot go on forever, it will stop.“ Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Most people have heard at least a version of what is called Stein‘s Law: […]
We make assumptions about western power and influence which are normatively rather than pragmatically based. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license Attribution: Tasnim […]
Declining societies begin by killing the old. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” The West: From “True Grit” to “True Shit” I haven’t decided yet whether to go to see Christopher Nolan’s […]
The West has killed its own soul and is not even aware of it Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Last week, we looked at some of the more practical and structural […]
The innumerable assasinations, putsches, and proxy wars by the West are never mentioned with regard to post-War World II colonialism in Africa and Western Asia. Still, there are some useful takeaways in this piece. Cross-posted […]
History is terrifyingly contingent, and what seems obvious now was not always obvious then: nor, indeed, was it inevitable Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Joseph Ducreux: Self-portrait, called the Surprise Photo […]
In what sense could it be useful to show that western society is suffering from something analogous to schizophrenia? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Last week’s essay on the importance of […]
The problem with any scheme of normative thinking is that it is essentially proof against the disruptive effects of all learning and all experience. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: The […]
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