The Internet seems to have exploded with talk of microaggressions, but Aristotle suggests this may not be the best approach to living a good life, or building a stable political community.
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The reason the Obama administration’s lawyers carried the day at the Supreme Court was because they relied on this one simple argument.
My semester is finally over and my first year of PhD studies is behind me. I’ve learned a ton this semester in terms of understanding how to think about international interactions. Responding to China seems to dominate the thinking of many international relations experts for obvious reasons, but concern and distrust seem to dominate the
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If we are merely to understand civil wars in light of the rhetoric surrounding them, we would be induced to view these conflicts as being caused by religion, ethnicity, culture, or some combination of the three. However empirical analysis of civil wars since the end of World War II suggests that these properties are not statistically relevant causes of civil wars. However, they may be fuel that feeds a conflict once it has started.
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A Foreign Affairs article caught me off guard this week. The article described ISIS as not another terrorist group, but as a state group without a state. In other words ISIS is an organization that assumes itself to be a state actor, but is using the methods of non-state actors in order to achieve its ultimate goal:
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