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Notes From All Over (3/02/2014): Ghosts, Empire, and Tribal Honor

03 February, 2014Dogs of War, Ecology, Education, History, Japan, Monied Interests, Notes From All Over, Pakistan, Romans and Grecians, Southeast Asia, The Middle Kingdom, Wealth

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit. TOP BILLING “‘The standard of living in ancient societies: a comparison between the Han Empire, the Roman Empire, and Babylonia“ Bas van Leeuwen, Reinhard Pirgruber, and Jieli van Leeuwen-Li. Working Papers 50, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History. The global and long-term development of […]

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Asian Great Power Politics: Spring 2013

19 May, 2013Bargaining and Balancing, Bharat, History, Japan, Korea, Narrative, The Middle Kingdom

Image Credit: Washington Post, Interesting things happen in Asia. Over the last few months a lot of interesting things have happened. Yet as 2013 rolls forward I find myself increasingly dissatisfied with the standard explanations American commentators rely on to explain Asia’s great power politicking. This post presents a few themes neglected by many analysts […]

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Notes From All Over (14/4/2013) – Digital Feudalism, Macrohistory, and Energy

14 April, 2013Culture, Energy, Epidemiology, History, Japan, Military Affairs, Notes From All Over, Political Theory, Southeast Asia, The Middle Kingdom, Tyranny, Wealth

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit. This collection is a large one. TOP BILLING Our Internet Surveillance StateBruce Schneier. Schneier on Security. 25 March 2013. The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not, we’re being tracked all the […]

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West and East and How We Think

02 April, 2013Books and Literature, Culture, Education, Japan, Korea, On Humanity, The Middle Kingdom

What impact does culture have on cognition? Psychologist Richard Nisbett has conducted dozens of studies to find out the answer to this question. Presented in The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently, the results of his study are fascinating – and their implications far reaching. “Perception: How Germans and Chinese See Each Other” from […]

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Three Headlines and A Moral

29 October, 2010Bharat, Japan, Media, Narrative, The Middle Kingdom

I consider it a great blessing to live in an age where it is possible to read within minutes of their publication the words of men and women who live thousands of miles away. The internet allows the unparalleled opportunity to understand the narratives of peoples world over – and in real time. I pity […]

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I Thought I Had Something Insightful to Say About the Yen Intervention….

15 September, 2010Japan, Wealth

…but then I found my way to the Financial Times. Within a day of the story breaking they have published ten quality articles on the subject and collected them all into one “FT in Depth” special feature. Consider me impressed. I had planned on writing a post concerning the intervention’s relationship to Japan’s internal politics […]

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Change of the Guard

30 August, 2009Electoral Intrigues, Japan

Japan has a new ruling party. In a landmark election the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) gained a majority in both houses of the Diet for the first time in its history. Yet the significance of this election has much less to do with the DPJ and much more to do those whom they knocked […]

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Notes From All Over 23/05/2009

22 May, 2009Bharat, DRC, Europa Regina, Iraq, Japan, Latin America, Notes From All Over, Southeast Asia

Notes From All Over: A collection of recently published articles, essays, reports, or blog posts of merit. Life shall require my attention for the nest week, so please do not expect much in the way of new posts. In order to meet my readership’s desire for important world news updates and intelligent analysis, I have […]

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Notes From All Over: 9/24

24 September, 2008Diplomacy, Iraq, Japan, Notes From All Over, Pakistan, Wealth

I have been quite busy the past week, and as such, I have left this blog woefully unattended. For those who just happen to get their world affairs fix here, I can imagine that this would be quite a tragedy. Yet not all is lost. I have had just enough time to keep up with […]

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The Future East Asian Security (i.e. The Future of U.S.-Japanese Relations)

09 June, 2008Diplomacy, Entangling Alliances, Japan, The Middle Kingdom

For the last 600 years the history of world has been defined by the Atlantic. On these waves sailed the explorer’s caravel, the conquistador’s galleon, the slaver’s schooner, and the trade-man’s gunboat. The winds of the Atlantic have carried the blood of revolutionaries, the cries of pilgrims, and the powder of world wars. It was […]

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Notes From All Over (3/02/2014): Ghosts, Empire, and Tribal Honor

Asian Great Power Politics: Spring 2013

Notes From All Over (14/4/2013) – Digital Feudalism, Macrohistory, and Energy

West and East and How We Think

Three Headlines and A Moral

I Thought I Had Something Insightful to Say About the Yen Intervention….

Change of the Guard

Notes From All Over 23/05/2009

Notes From All Over: 9/24

The Future East Asian Security (i.e. The Future of U.S.-Japanese Relations)

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