I was picking through two old posts, one about the disembodied nature of empire and the other about the shifting nature of political/economic/social authority on a global level, and I started to think about how to apply my older thoughts on such things to my current interest in social contract theory and the growth of [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Mumbai, Terror, and Response
November 26th, 2008
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I’ve been following the mess in Mumbai for the past few hours. As usual, Hashtags represents the best and most live way to keep up-to-date: http://hashtags.org/tag/mumbai. Even though it’s getting a lot of media play, I think it’s important to remember the rather peculiar “ordinariness” of the day’s events. We gasped in America when the [...]
Trivial Pursuits?
November 19th, 2008
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So I teamed up with some friends of mine from the Korbel School to compete in the first ever Institute of International Education Denver WorldQuest trivia competition. It was sweet, not least of all because my team won. Actually, we tied with the IIE’s own team, but they were just doing it for fun. Plus, [...]
Popular Sovereignty
November 17th, 2008
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Just finished a small write-up about the analogy between individuals and states from the Renaissance to the 18th century as well as an analysis of what this means for contemporary international relations. It’s pretty messy – I may repost a cleaner final version someday. Brauhn – Popular Sovereignty
Why We Can’t Stand Still
November 15th, 2008
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My instructor in my Modern Political Theory class was discussing how political theory, like any good idea, is generally applied retrospectively to a given situation. We aren’t usually able to see patterns until after the fact. Not that this makes theory worthless, of course; we gain a greater appreciation of what has happened, and we [...]
Sharia and the State
November 13th, 2008
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I’ve finished up a review of Noah Feldman’s The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State. It’s not actually all review – there’s analysis, too. It definitely would not fit here, so it’s been published through GoogleDocs. Take a peek, eh?Brauhn – Feldman and Sharia and the StateTechnorati Tags: islam, sharia, democracy
