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		<title>Eurasia</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2012/05/28/the-eurasian-hypercomplex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 01:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regional security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post continues our analysis of the architecture of international security. In a previous post, we explored the centered complex of North America and the Asian supercomplex. In the latter, we saw how South Asian security dynamics are decoupled from those of East Asia with threats traveling only in one direction. Hence, a good place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1840&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Syria Conundrum</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2012/05/27/the-syria-conundrum/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2012/05/27/the-syria-conundrum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 23:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Arab spring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After months of hand wringing the White House has finally started stirring. In breaking front page news, the newspaper of record reported US efforts to get Russia on board for a solution to the Syrian crises on the Yemen model. What is the Yemen model? It is the same strategy that was tried in Egypt: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1780&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Topology of Global Power</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2012/05/25/the-topology-of-global-power/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2012/05/25/the-topology-of-global-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 06:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regional security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a review of Regions and Powers by Barry Buzan and Ole Wæver, CUP 2003.  Readers of the policy tensor are already familiar with Regional Security Complexes (RSCs). This book sets out to set the agenda for regional security complex studies. The idea is to look at the structure of international security and power [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1559&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Age of the Genoese</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2012/04/14/the-age-of-the-genoese/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2012/04/14/the-age-of-the-genoese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Braudel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1575, the most powerful monarch of Europe, the King of Spain, Phillip II, decided to terminate the services of his Genoese bankers. On the international markets, he controlled silver but not gold or bills of exchange. The Genoese blocked the circulation of gold, and the King&#8217;s unpaid Spanish troops–fighting for the Catholic faith in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1666&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rule of Force in World Affairs</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2012/01/16/the-rule-of-force-in-world-affairs/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2012/01/16/the-rule-of-force-in-world-affairs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Realism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The doctrine of Realism Before I write about the second book Regions and Powers by Barry Buzan and Ole Wæver I want to talk about realism for pedagogical reasons. I have written about realism before but only tangentially and without a systematic treatment of the theory. The dominant formulation of realism (called neorealism or structural realism) was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1563&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stability in the Persian Gulf</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2012/01/06/stability-in-the-persian-gulf/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2012/01/06/stability-in-the-persian-gulf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Arab spring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The winter break is a time for reading for the Policy Tensor. The list this year has been particularly interesting. I started off with Oil Monarchies by F. Gregory Gause, III. I had been really looking forward to it and I wasn&#8217;t disappointed. The surest sign of a good book is when it convinces you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1542&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Euro Crises</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/12/27/the-euro-crises/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/12/27/the-euro-crises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Assuming that the reader is familiar with the larger contours of the crises I am just going to launch into a few observations regarding the EU. I will concentrate on the security aspects of the situation mostly because these seem to have been ignored by most observers. It&#8217;s pretty obvious that the euro crises is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1531&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Persian Gulf as a Regional Security Complex</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/11/17/the-persian-gulf-as-a-regional-security-complex/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/11/17/the-persian-gulf-as-a-regional-security-complex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regional security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is more a summary than a review of The International Relations of the Persian Gulf by F. Gregory Gause, III. Gause is considered to be one of the chief experts on MidEast politics ever since the publication of his seminal text Oil Monarchies. I have some disagreements with his analysis but there is much I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1463&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dominance of Finance</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/11/03/the-dominance-of-finance/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/11/03/the-dominance-of-finance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is partly a review of Capital Resurgent and Crisis of Neoliberalism by Duménil and Lévy, A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey, and The Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition by Thomas Ferguson. The reason why I am writing about all these books together is that they fit together to provide [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1398&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 1979 Coup</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/10/18/the-1979-coup/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/10/18/the-1979-coup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, I was supposed to write a review of A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey. I quickly realized that much of Harvey&#8217;s argument is taken straight from Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution by Duménil and Lévy. That was not available on the Kindle or my local libraries so I ordered it on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1365&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black Holes and Quantum Entanglement</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/10/05/black-holes-and-quantum-entanglement/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/10/05/black-holes-and-quantum-entanglement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 07:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Note to regular readers–apologies for not writing all month. I have been really busy with my research in the mathematical domain. My ongoing work is on the question of the persistence of quantum entanglement around rotating black holes. This is interesting because, first of all, no one understands by what underlying mechanism entanglement works. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1320&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Braudel and American decline</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/09/04/braudel-and-american-decline/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/09/04/braudel-and-american-decline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giovanni Arrighi writes in his latest book, Adam Smith in Beijing, &#8220;…just as US difficulties in Vietnam precipitated the signal crisis of US hegemony, in all likelihood US difficulties in Iraq will, in retrospect, be seen as having precipitated its terminal crisis.&#8221; Arrighi is deviating from Braudel in that the &#8220;signal crisis&#8221;, the sign of autumn, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1247&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Equilibrium Wage is Lower than the Marginal Product of Labor</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/08/30/why-the-equilibrium-wage-is-lower-than-the-marginal-product-of-labor/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/08/30/why-the-equilibrium-wage-is-lower-than-the-marginal-product-of-labor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Dmitri Gallow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thepolicytensor.wordpress.com/?p=1019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Readers of this blog might be familiar with my friend and philosopher of science who introduced me to the Van Fraassen paper that I talked about in my post on the nature of reality. He has agreed to publish the following thesis on The Policy Tensor. I will reserve my comments for the comments section. You are welcome [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1019&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Longue Durée</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/08/17/the-longue-duree/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/08/17/the-longue-duree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Braudel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thepolicytensor.wordpress.com/?p=1065</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of this article is based on The Long Twentieth Century by Giovanni Arrighi. The title of this book is quite misleading for it is not a history of the American century at all. It is, in fact, an analysis of the dynamics of world Capitalist system as it emerged in the early Modern period [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=1065&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/08/09/976/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/08/09/976/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al-Jazeera has made a moving documentary about the protests and the reign of terror that followed. There is growing pressure on the channel to stop its broadcast, after all Qatar is part of the GCC. Hopefully it will survive on YouTube. What is completely missing from this documentary is any geopolitical context. The fact of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=976&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>S&amp;P scolds Washington</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/08/07/s-p-scolds-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/08/07/s-p-scolds-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thepolicytensor.wordpress.com/?p=944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The politics of U.S. debt rating Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s downgraded U.S. long term debt from AAA to AA+ on Friday. The release outlines two related issues of concern. First is the issue of political gridlock and the ensuing policy uncertainty. The second is the sheer size of projected unfunded liabilities of the United States. This is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=944&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>War as an Analyzer of History</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/07/22/war-as-an-analyzer/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/07/22/war-as-an-analyzer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is more a summary than a review of Society Must be Defended by Michel Foucault. It is a remarkable collection of lectures that Foucault gave at the College de France in 1976. This is my attempt to wet the beak of the reader. In what follows I will sometimes shamelessly borrow the words of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=856&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occidentalism and the Enlightenment</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/07/13/occidentalism-and-the-enlightenment/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/07/13/occidentalism-and-the-enlightenment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a review of Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit. Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights &#38; Journalism at Bard College, and Margalit holds the George F. Kennan chair at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. This short book came out of an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=779&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature of Reality</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/06/24/nature-of-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/06/24/nature-of-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is partly a review of &#8216;QUANTUM: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality&#8217; by Manjit Kumar. See the New York Times review here.  The Great Debate Quantum theory is the most successful scientific theory in history. Since its formulation in the heady days of the late 1920s it has been tested [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=652&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Official Policy Tensor Reading List</title>
		<link>http://policytensor.com/2011/06/16/the-official-policy-tensor-reading-list/</link>
		<comments>http://policytensor.com/2011/06/16/the-official-policy-tensor-reading-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thepolicytensor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I stumbled upon a great website. Its called The Browser. They collect the best articles on the web. To start off the reading list I am going to list the ones I really enjoyed reading. Here goes.  Day 1 Robin Yassin-Kasaab argues in Foreign Policy that its too late for the Assad regime to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=policytensor.com&#038;blog=15689576&#038;post=620&#038;subd=thepolicytensor&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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