The Gaza cease-fire ended this week and, predictably, hell has been unleashed on that wretched sliver of earth yet again. I’ve been trying to think of what I could add to the ongoing commentary on the Palestinian-Israeli situation, a topic that is already debated and spun ad nauseam. The truth is, not very much. Instead, [...]
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By what means?
Posted in Policy, tagged jus in bello, just war, philosophy, sovereignty on 28 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Open social architectures? (Pt. 2)
Posted in Policy, tagged context, Nash, non-cooperation, normative, open, Pareto, positive, semantics on 21 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An “open” system, in the sense of the previous entry, is distinguished not by anarchy as much as by an emergent rule-set among distinct participants. That is to say, in the absence of either predefined requirements or overarching control, it is participation — in accordance with the open standards of the community, negotiated in context [...]
Reality comes knocking
Posted in Policy, tagged asymmetric, irregular, Pentagon, realism, stability operations on 7 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
A theme from which this journal can’t seem to get away is the wholesale embrace of the complex nuances of reality that has so far marked the composition of the next administration. The maniacal blathering from certain circles that a Democratic administration would surely mean the end of freedom as we know it, that socialism [...]
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