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Musings of a technologist & undergraduate political scientist/sociologist

The organised crime of state-making from the 14th century to today

May 12th, 2008 · No Comments

DSquared has a post on JEM launching an attack on Khartoum today. He thinks the various militias will resemble little more than criminal gangs in the near future, with a footnote warning against our own smugness as “the Free Companies went in for this sort of thing in the fourteenth century and made lots of [...]

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