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Cliobabble

I have posted a new video looking at Peter Turchin’s book “War and Peace and War,” which he claims is a new, scientific approach to history. Unless he takes astrology as his model for science, I disagree with him.

Against Westphalia

Today we have the rare article that not only mentions Westphalia but is primarily about it, and in particular its status as the origin of the modern state system. This is an article with the somewhat clumsy title of “Beyond the Twilight of the Westphalian Myth” on a site called E-International Relations. The article begins …

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