ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally. John J. Mearsheimer will argue that rational decisions in international politics rest on credible theories about how the world works and emerge from deliberative decisionmaking processes. Using these criteria, he will describe how …
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/francis-bacon/Source First published Mon Dec 29, 2003; substantive revision Fri Dec 7, 2012 Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the early modern era. As a lawyer, member of Parliament, and Queen’s Counsel, Bacon …
Patric Loch Otieno (PLO) Lumumba is the director of the Kenyan School of Law, not a politician, though he is an activist. In this video, he is trying to show the impact of colonization on Africa. He may be correct about the impact, but his use of tribalism lacks an understanding of tribal society. Watch …
Conversation with Peter Turchin. Watch the Video
Utopia is a rare and powerful insight into a secret Australia, and breaks what amounts to a national silence about the indigegous first people – the oldest, most enduring presence on Earth. Utopia reveals that apartheid is deep within Australia’s past and present and that Aboriginal people are still living in abject poverty and Third …
Settler colonialism refers to an empires’ citizens moving to and settling in colonized regions. This occurred following the second industrial revolution which changed economic conditions in Europe leading to mass movement of citizens to colonized areas for settlement displacing indigenous people who were either killed or pushed to marginal lands. Watch the Video
Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, has been delivering his insightful Top Risks Report for 15 years. The primary objective? To systematically outline how we should approach the world’s most significant threats and opportunities in any given year. Bremmer’s Top Risks report stands in stark contrast to the clickbait and anger-inducing algorithmic …
Who has our best interest in mind – the left or the right? And where do the two sides converge? Watch some of the biggest names in politics talk ideologies and strategies, including Yanis Varoufakis, Fiona Hill, Richard Wolff, Aaron Bastani, Svitlana Morenets, Daniel Markovits, Martin Wolf, Matthew Goodwin, John Redwood, and Matthew Lesh. Watch …
One of the great mysteries of our time seems to be why the U.S. economy is so good. An article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal in early 1997 summed it up nicely: “Pinch me,” the reporter wrote. “A lot of good things are inexplicably happening. The economy tops the list. Economists …
In this episode, Rob chats with John Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Mearsheimer presents a nuanced perspective on liberalism, emphasising a crucial distinction between its positive impact domestically and its potential pitfalls when applied as a foreign policy approach. He delves into his views …