tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post8323861812712821469..comments2023-11-17T03:55:40.736-05:00Comments on Ink Spots: The awesome prescience of obscure, misplaced booksLilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373158801523577733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-40255990861784055082011-05-24T13:55:29.561-04:002011-05-24T13:55:29.561-04:00Nice post, Gulliver. Since you took a walk down m...Nice post, Gulliver. Since you took a walk down memory lane, I shall too. <br /><br />The following never fails to amuse me, even if its power probably gets in translation on the Internet. I still remember - honestly - being in Mearsheimer "Great Power Politics" seminar in 1998 and Mearsheimer dismissively and sarcastically saying something like, "Islamic fundamentalism - now *there's* a threat." It stuck in my head then, and of course, I wish now that I had recorded him.* <br /><br />I think Gordon McCormick's Annual Review of Political Science article on terrorist decision-making starts off with Conrad or Bakunin, and also has a quotation from Begin; Martha Crenshaw has published a bit, I see, on "new" versus "old" terrorism. <br /><br />I'll conclude with: (1) it's hard to make predictions, especially about the future,* and (2), there is nothing new under the sun.<br /><br />Again, fun post, Gulliver.<br /><br />Best<br />ADTS <br /><br />* For that matter, while it's a wonderful compendium of realist thinking about the virtues of bipolarity and the vices of a multipolar world, the predictions Mearsheimer espoused in "Back to the Future" don't seem to have panned out too well.<br /><br />** It's for this reason that when Abu M took up Drezner's Book Club challenge, I said I didn't think recommended reading should be about area studies - it's too hard to predict what area will be of importance and interest over the next X years.ADTSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-41000151677097327952011-05-23T22:47:26.369-04:002011-05-23T22:47:26.369-04:00Please do share more.
Thanks for your recent info...Please do share more.<br /><br />Thanks for your recent informative comments and posts, Gulliver!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com