Good mornin’. Â Here’s your linkage…
- Paolo Sorbello critiques the elegantly fixed steps and rhythms of the last Waltz.
- Roger Mac Ginty at Plato’s Cave discusses the construction of “greatness” in IR and the cult of followership.
- Thomas Meaney tries to explain why a passionate history of global alternatives to liberal capitalism becomes an exercise in nostalgia.
- Jason Ralph wonders if Headley Bull’s Revolt Against the West thesis is appropriate for understanding contemporary international society.
- Oliver Steunkel asks: “Could the BRICS provide loans without conditionalities?“
- Siddharatha Mitter reviews Max Fisher’s work and the cartography of bullshit.
Glanced at the beginning of the Sorbello piece. It assimilates Waltz to the quantitative stream in Am soc sci, which doesn’t strike me as right. I read the Roger Mac Ginty piece. Didn’t think much of that. Not enough critique in the discipline? Ho hum, fire up the same old tired tropes (hmm, i rarely use that word, but it seems somehow appropriate).
I like your links better when you do the Afghanistan/Pakistan/India material. Though to be fair, haven’t looked at the rest of these yet.