The Theory of Social Democracy by Thomas Meyer is so boring that I spent a whole week getting through it, skimming many parts. That doesn’t mean it’s not an important book. It’s boring because it tries to do too much, giving us a literature review on every topic dealt with instead of getting to the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
26 Sep
“De” kan begge verdener
Godt foredrag av Fredrik Haren som argumenterer at Asia allerede har et overtak på den vestlige verden i kunnskap, siden “de” kan begge verdener. Den vestlige verden er for fokusert på seg selv, og vil miste konkurranseevne over tid om en ikke blir klar over hva som foregår i Asia.
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19 Sep
Freedom revisited
A good feminist (?) friend gave me The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood a few weeks ago. I am, as she’s aware of, always sceptical to receiving books from others, especially my parents. But I’ve spent the last few days reading this one. I wonder if she’ll ever read the book she got from me.
While [...]
16 Sep
4 more years with a social-democratic Norway – 5 main reasons
I’ve good reasons to be happy today. The four last years a social-democratic coalition (the “red-greens”) has governed Norway consisting of the Labour Party and the smaller Centre Party and the Social Left Party. Yesterday, the Norwegian people gave the government four new years.
As the graph illustrates, it’s been an exciting campaign and election. Two [...]
9 Sep
Universal Human Rights
Universal Human Rights in theory & practice by jack Donnelly tries to grapple with different aspects of human rights, and he does so quite successfully.
Donnelly takes a universalist, but minimalist position on human rights, arguing that human rights are universal, but that different ways of implementation leaves room for cultural impact. He denies, however, that [...]
3 Jul
Sovereignty and the UFO
I haven’t read a single piece by Alexander Wendt that was boring or not original… and he has done it again. In a 2008 paper (how could I miss it until now?) Wendt and Duvall show how sovereignty is the reason why authorities are not funding UFO research. Quickly summarised, the argument goes:
There is both [...]
30 Jun
Barack von Metternich
Unless Obama comes up with a foreign policy that goes beyond the Austrian prince’s rigid multilateralism, he too might not end up seeing the world clearly.
via Barack von Metternich – By Gustavo de las Casas | Foreign Policy.
I just wrote a paper on Metternich’s idealism last semester, pretty much concluding what this article does!
