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Trying to Understand the World

Aurelien
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A newsletter devoted not to polemic, but to trying to make sense of today's world.

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The Limits Of Our World.

I doubt if Ludwig Wittgenstein was thinking of international politics when he famously declared in Proposition 5,6 of the Tractatus that “The limits of my language signify the limits of my world.” Specialists have been debating exactly what...

7 days ago
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So It Goes ...

Most people have heard at least a version of what is called Stein‘s Law: “if a thing cannot go on forever, it will stop.“ To some this is a very banal insight, to others it is a mere tautology. But in fact I think it opens the way to a bigg...

14 days ago
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And It Goes On.

Given that about ninety per cent of all those who have ever written about international relations, war and conflict studies and military-strategic issues are alive and writing now, you might be surprised to learn that we still know very lit...

21 days ago
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No Direction Home.

I haven’t decided yet whether to go to see Christopher Nolan’s new film about Odysseus. Like a lot of people, I suspect, I’ve been a little put off by all the artificial controversy being deliberately generated about the film, and by the us...

a month ago
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Because We Say So.

Last week, we looked at some of the more practical and structural reasons for the increasing loss of western influence around the world, in those many subtle interactions between states and their servants and influencers that have little to...

a month ago
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