Episode 349 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following questions from Quora: "How would libertarian society keep individuals from devolving into chaos?"; "Isn't libertarianism incompatible with nationalism?"; "What does it take for someone to finally admit their religion or political ideology is wrong?"; and a look at the flagpole challenge to the Non-Aggression Principle by David Friedman.
Topics: nap, property rights, liberty, force, violence, murder, trespass, society, order, government, the...
Given that the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is a nation state with a streak of Islamic-revolutionary transnationalism, the question of national interest has appeared to be quite a perplexing issue for both analysts and researchers of Iranian foreign policy. What lies at the heart of this issue is whether ideology and national interest or, say, idealism and realism can coexist or not. This debate, in turn, revolves around how the term national interest is defined. If it is viewed, for...
Topics: Foreign Policy, National Interest, Constructivism, State Identity, Realism, Social Construction
