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Where’s the World Headed & the Rise of Cities, a Quickie
Scotland recently came close to pulling out of Great Britain. What’s that about? As the day of the vote drew near I’d see stories on the theme: If Scotland goes, what next? Catalonia? Quebec? Vermont?...
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From Tibet to Taiwan, China’s Outer Regions Watch Hong Kong Protests Intently...
BEIJING — As hundreds of protesters continue to occupy the streets of Hong Kong, challenging China’s Communist Party leaders with calls for greater democracy, much of the world anxiously awaits signs...
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Seeking Identity, ‘Hong Kong People’ Look to City, Not State – NYTimes.com
HONG KONG — If there is one phrase that has come to define the protests that have swept across Hong Kong in the last week and a half, appearing on handwritten billboards and T-shirts, and heard in...
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The Economist explains: How Palestine might become a state | The Economist
As a form of territorial governance, the nation-state emerged in Western Europe some time during the last 1000 years. Just when and where depends, of course, on just what you think qualifies as a...
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It’s Time for America to Reinvent itself Top to Bottom
But that’s not what I titled this month’s article at 3 Quarks Daily. I gave it a somewhat more provocative title, American Craziness: Where it Came from and Why It Won’t Work Anymore. The craziness is...
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The demise of the nation-state in the 21st century
At the moment the nation-state seems to be the right and natural way for humans to govern themselves, and yet we know that it was a historical invention cobbled together and refined over decades and...
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Has the nation-state become obsolete?
Nation states cause some of our biggest problems, from civil war to climate inaction. Science suggests there are better ways to run a planet So argues Debora MacKenzie in The New Scientist: Try, for a...
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GOOD: Global Organization of Democracies
Here’s a triple, a trifecta, a trinity, from Charlie Keil. It’s about a Global Organization of Democracies (GOOD). Let him explain it. An Open Letter to Citizens of the World Dear Citizen: I think we...
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The city-state redux
Jamie Bartlett, in Aeon: Until the mid-19th century, most of the world was a sprawl of empires, unclaimed land, city-states and principalities, which travellers crossed without checks or passports. As...
View ArticleWhen Ravi Bhalla was sworn in as Mayor of Hoboken US Senator Cory Booker...
Sometime in the late summer or early fall of last year, 2017, I noticed that Ravi Bhalla, who was running for mayor of Hoboken, where I live, was holding a meet and greet at a coffee shop near the...
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