It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
NOAM CHOMSKYHistory shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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