/lit/ - Literature

>>20472551
>Gweilos can't even comprehend LE CONFUCIAN nested obligations or such complex concepts as informal bureaucracy, clientelism, and rent-seeking.
atrocious post

>>20036968
attempting to create a theory of interstate relations which ignores domestic social, political, economic structures and pressures is an impoverished worldview with little causal efficacy. Neorealism, both offensive and defensive, in it's attempt to determine universal 'laws' of interstate relations grounded in the international structure (of anarchy) and purported 'universal interests' of 'states' both flattens the complex causation of almost all conflicts and projects an anachronism of post-westphalian statehood and international relations as universal principle. That was the original sin of Waltz that has been carried on by all neorealists. States aren't billiard balls colliding on preset courses according to the international state of play, but multi-intentional, often fractious, often contesting factions with complex motivations which stem from domestic and historical realities. To suggest that neorealists find their intellectual antecedents in figures such as Machiavelli or Thucydides does a disservice to both those writers, who rightly grounded their analysis foremost in domestic situations and then their interplay with the international contestation, and never considered states as black boxes whose motivations can be assumed.
In a word, Mearshiemer is wrong for the same reason all IR theorists are wrong: a pure theory of international relations is a doomed project to begin with.

GDYRW

>>18764631
I am transasian Im having onions sauce replacement therapy and squinting all the time so I cant see how gay your kike on a stick religion is from so far away I am going to be in China I cant see your Christcuckery. The brightest philosopher in the history of the West was Schopenhauer and China and India had tons of Schopenhauers ages ago even before Jebus Crust and Crackers walked on Bud Lite and healed the libs from their heroin addictions. Bye bye ameriblubber!

pic very much related

>>18168648
Confucianbros are the most oppressed people on earth, why are you anti-Confucianists so mean...

Seems like as good a thread to post it in as any. Enjoy the OC