Kant get it out of my Head

Mark Safranski of ZenPundit has been doing a lot of thinking and writing about the strategic situation, working with Tom Barnett's New Map theory. He has been exploring the implications of "the Gap": those countries which have not connected to the globalized world; "the Core": those countries which have been globalized and which are disengaged from meaningful threat; and the countries in the Core which are shrinking the Gap and providing the defense of the disengaged Core countries (essentially, this comes down to the Western nations in President Bush's "coalition of the willing"). Here is Mark's latest, on Kantian rule sets and the attempts of NGO's and International Law scholars to apply them to situations that cross the boundary, and the disastrous effects thereof.

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