In 1996, Samuel P. Huntington published his famous book, "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" where he posited after the Cold War, the world is more likely going to have major wars due to civilizational fault lines than anything else. He recognized that the Cold War was a competition between the Capitalist West and the Communist East. Huntington … [Read more...] about Peaceful rise, the biggest international relations issue of our life time
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Political unification and China’s Grand Union ideal
On this site, we've come back to the question of secession several times. The news a week ago that Ireland, with less than 1% of the EU's population, single-handedly derailed the second EU attempt at political centralization (Lisbon Treaty) strikes me as the perfect opportunity to talk about the flip side of the coin: the ideology of unification. Because let's face it, … [Read more...] about Political unification and China’s Grand Union ideal