I truly don't understand how US calls for "rules based order" and then ignores said order whenever we want. Do we really think anybody else is fooled?
Brussels incensed as US spurns global trade rules (yet again)
Dave Kang
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Dave Kang
@daveckang
Going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm!
(Also: USSF "National B" license, equivalent of today's "A-senior" license)
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- My students have no idea that we once thought that Japan was the most obvious peer competitor to the United States.“Japan today cannot even ride the waves of technological and industrial innovation, let alone create them,” says Kazuto Ataka. What a contrast with the 1980s @Urbandirt ft.com/content/bd51a6… via @FinancialTimes
- Lots of discussion about how to move beyond "greatest hits" of European history. The key element, though, is to provide alternative cases and events that illuminate existing - and new - aspects of international relations. @StephanHaggard and I gathered... amazon.com/East-Asia-Worl…
- IR theorizing has been profoundly, shaped by the Western experiences of the Westphalian order and often assumes that the Western experience can be generalized to all orders. Recent scholarship on historical East Asian orders challenges these notions. doi.org/10.1017/S00208…
- I posted on the other site. A few thoughts here: 1. It is so outrageous I am having trouble getting my head around it. I was in Korea in 1987 and I remember martial law. This is one of the dumbest moves by a Korean president in its history. 2. Yoon's fate is sealed...
- 1/(Warning - rambling thread): I like that magazines like FP are asking about racism and Eurocentrism in IR. But almost all the scholars - while POC - are from US/European countries. How about asking some scholars from the actual non-West as well? How about asking some who teach
- Yeah, I'm an area specialist. I am, in fact, proudly an area specialist. I know more than you about East Asia. You got a problem with that?
- So it's finally published! Makes a great "back to school" gift! Mom will love it! Run, don't walk, to your nearest bookseller and stock up now before they're gone!!!
- Why, oh why, do we view China through a military lens??? It is such an own goal... China has deepened economic ties with other Asian countries since the beginning of its trade war with the U.S. in 2018 wsj.com/articles/china… via @WSJ
- To follow up a recent tweet, here are the problems of using non-Western cases in journal articles: 1: reviewers almost never know the material, so it takes twice as long to describe and defend the cases. This leaves far less room for drawing causal or theoretical insights...
- Concessions so far, as far as I can tell -- North Korea: 1. missile test moratorium 2. nuclear test moratorium 3. Punggye-ri 4. Sohae 5. KIA remains returned USA: 1. canceled one war game NK is unlikely to move much farther without the US making a move first.
