political science
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political science is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 24, 2022 and June 07, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “mandatory reading for IR/political science freshmen”; “he’s making some kind of deep Political Science point”. It most often appears alongside American, China, Japan.
Metadata
- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: June 24, 2022
- Last seen: June 07, 2023
Appears In
- Your Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy
- Assistant Dictator Book Club: America Against America
Related Pages
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- American (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- Japan (2 shared issues)
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- South Korea (2 shared issues)
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- United States (2 shared issues)
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- 501(c)(3) (1 shared issues)
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- 747 (1 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
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- 11 (1 shared issues)
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- Adam Tooze (1 shared issues)
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- Afghan ambassador to Pakistan (1 shared issues)
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- Afghanistan (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
It is very much an academic book that should revolutionise the whole field of IR by challenging the fundamental assumption of realpolitik with impressive rigour, so the brisk 200 pages should probably be mandatory reading for IR/political science freshmen. Like Robin Hanson, I would have been persuaded by an article length analysis, but as Hanania himself agrees, the belabouring book length treatment is to disabuse academics who by nature demand sweat and impressive mastery of literatures — this review should, dare I say, suffice for the cynical reader.
Inline links: Robin Hanson, Hanania
He says this a lot, and sometimes it sounds pretty profound and like he’s making some kind of deep Political Science point. But I think he mostly means two things.
What prevents me from dismissing it in this way is that, well, China sure is trying the project of having the first set of things but not the second set. In the early 2000s, everyone in the West thought China would inevitably democratize; surely it was impossible to for a rich, technologically advanced nation of the sort China was becoming to remain a pseudo-communist autocracy. This seems a lot like the theory that America’s prosperity and its decadence are two sides of the same coin. If Wang took power in China to test his theory that freedom and prosperity were separable, his experiment has been one of the most impressive and conclusive in political science.