The BBC reports today that Kyrgyzstan will be shuttering the United States air base outside the capital city of Bishkek. This is pretty big news any direction that you cut it, but given our new “focus” on fixing things in Afghanistan, the closing of the Manas base is really, really, really important. You can check [...]
Posts Tagged ‘political science’
Tit for Tat
January 12th, 2009
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OK. Punching someone just because they hit you is not good. This isn’t just me speaking as a (more or less) pacifist. Preemption is an even more dangerous game, as we have found with our Mesopotamian excursion. News this past week makes me think that we earthlings still haven’t figured these things out. In the [...]
Philadelphia
December 15th, 2008
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I finished off my whirl of a week in DC with a trip to Philadelphia to visit my aunt. She works for the Atwater Kent Museum, close to Independence Hall, the little brick building where such fine documents as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed. It was a real treat to walk [...]
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
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
President Barack Hussein Obama II
November 4th, 2008
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We have elected our 44th President. He is an American who grew up among other cultures. He is an American who has overcome great obstacles, but who has persevered. He is an American who represents the possible futures for the youth of this nation, and for the youth of the world. But he is an [...]
Interfaith Coalitions and Revolution
October 29th, 2008
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I was sitting there in my “Introduction to the Middle East and Islamic Politics” course today, listening to Dr. Hashemi lecture about the relationship between authoritarian states and their effect on political expression. He did this through a case study of Iran, explaining the ways in which politicized Islam grew to be a legitimate outlet [...]
Religion and Politics – A Long Post
October 24th, 2008
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New post up at the DU Interfaith Student Alliance blog: http://du-interfaith.blogspot.com/
