Monday, August 19, 2019

"Legible States"

"I don't think these stances can be explained merely by Trump's much-discussed fondness for Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping. The notion that the central government's control over the contested regions should be made official, recognized, and unambiguous accords with his overall worldview."

Joshua Keating in Slate writes that "[w]hen hard-line nationalists take power, such ambiguity in borderlines is no longer tolerated."

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