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Hace 2 días · Summary. It has been almost 20 years since the publication of International Society and the De Facto State by Scott Pegg in 1998, the first book-length substantive theoretical attempt to investigate the phenomenon of de facto states—secessionist entities that control territory, provide governance, receive popular support, persist over time, and seek widespread recognition of their proclaimed ...
Hace 4 días · Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is a book by James C. Scott critical of a system of beliefs he calls high modernism, that centers on governments' overconfidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with purported scientific laws.. The book makes an argument that states seek to force "legibility" on their subjects by ...
Hace 4 días · This is a list of countries by order of appearance in the Fragile States Index (formerly the Failed States Index) of the United States think tank Fund for Peace. A fragile state has several attributes.
Hace 4 días · The United Nations has been criticized for a variety of reasons, including its policies, ideology, equality of representation, administration, ability to enforce rulings, and ideological bias. Often cited points of criticism include: a perceived lack of the body's efficacy (including a total lack of efficacy in both pre-emptive measures and ...
Hace 1 día · The dead may loom large in cyberspace, but the length of their digital afterlives is entirely uncertain. In Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond, technology scholar Tamara Kneese, director of Data & Society’s Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab and former green software researcher at Intel, explores the precarity ...
Hace 4 días · In 1865, the Civil War was won by the northern states and the 13th Amendment (1865), which ended slavery in the U.S., the 14th Amendment (1868), which says no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, and the 15thAmendment (1870), which gives every U.S. citizen the right to vote, are now a part of the Constitution of the United States.
Hace 3 días · Other US airlines had 2% or fewer of their flights canceled. Monday’s problems follow 1,500 flights that Delta canceled on Friday and nearly 3,000 more flights over the weekend.
