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Nobel Platitudes Prize
Barack Obama is the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. This announcement, made on October 09, was met in large part by disbelief and incredulity worldwide. The recipient himself was compelled to admit, “I do not deserve the the Nobel Peace Prize,” though that did not deter him from...
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Lessons in Hegemony
Giovanni Arrighi defines hegemony in his essay, “The Three Hegemonies of Historical Capitalism” (Stephen Gill eds., Gramsci, Historical Materialism, and International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), as the power of a state to exercise governmental functions over a system of sovereign states.This power is something more and different than...
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Nuclear sovereignty
Recently, North Korea and Iran have been in the news for their nuclear disobedience. Undoubtedly, these are scary regimes, but they raise an interesting question: what are the limits on national sovereignty? On one hand, they are very much within their rights as sovereign nations to produce nuclear weapons, particularly...