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2 examples from a single edition of the New York Times in which contemporary major power competition is filtering into the domestic politics of smaller states:

1. Maldives
2. Niger

Have totally crated (though may be ticking back up recently), per this Morning Consult data:

“Net favorability toward Canada among Indian adults is hovering near a tracking low amid a bilateral spat over India’s alleged assassination of a Canadian citizen on domestic soil. The nadir was reached shortly after the Trudeau government’s airing of the incident on Sept. 18, with net favorability falling over 40 percentage points (from 64% on that date to 22% on Sept. 29). “

I was assigned Max Weber’s “Politics as a Vocation, Science as a Vocation” my first quarter in college back in 2000. It has stuck with me vividly ever since, especially its discussion of how politicians must balance the ethic of conviction with the ethic of responsibility. That seems as important and pressing now as ever. Read it all, but here are a few excerpts:

This is a very interesting report on changing patterns of control and governance in southeast Burma/Myanmar by the Karen Peace Support Network (shared with all appropriate caveats about how hard this stuff is to measure).

Fall 2023 version of PLSC 50901: Qualitative Methods and Research Design, co-taught with Austin Carson.

From Bhabani Sen Gupta’s 1972 article in China Quarterly about China and the Indian Communists:

“Maoism, for the CPI [note: this is post-split and in contrast to the CPM, which was on uneasier ground], was not Marxism-Leninism but a narodnik deviance fortified by petit-bourgeois chauvinism” (p. 285)

This is a fascinating piece that tries to map out different types of neighborhoods in Chicago. Well worth a read for any past, future, or current Chicagoan.