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Nationalism Studies
This is my country and this is what we stand for. At least for now.
“Technology has always been co-opted for war, but truly intelligent AI, let alone a superintelligence, is a different beast entirely.”
Because of their large and unfriendly neighbor to the east, the Baltics would rather be Scandinavian.
Big Think spoke with historian Marc-William Palen about the egalitarian aims of the free-trade movement in past centuries.
The region of Catalonia has been at odds with greater Spain for over 300 years. The prospect of autonomy remains a distant and fading dream.
Is the vast "Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area" the final resting place of Genghis Khan?
His plan to replace it with homegrown rice did not go well.
Created in the 1880s, "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan," which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
All nations have founding myths, but none are quite like Russia's.
Time will tell what the reign of Charles III will look like, but one thing is for sure: the “new Elizabethan age” is long gone.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
"Strategic ambiguity" has long been the West's strategy on Taiwan.
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“This is much deeper than just ‘let’s figure out how we can get both sides to get along.’”
A dispute marked by flags and booze has been replaced with an official land border.
Is there victory in defeat?
Vladimir Putin adores Fyodor Dostoevsky. A close reading of the legendary author’s texts reveals the feeling might have been mutual.
Russia has long sought to erase the mere idea of Ukraine. But people like my grandmother, born in Druzhkivka, will not let Russia win.
The Bolsheviks may have created Ukraine’s current borders, but that doesn’t mean dismantling them is good for today’s Russia.
One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.
Since Ukraine originally meant “borderland,” the territory was already a target for several kingdoms.
And England almost burned themselves down as a result. “When Benjamin Franklin inveted the lightning rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it […]