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Iran and the nature of power
The story of Iran is difficult to disentangle. When I told my friends and family I was going to visit the country, many of them gave me one version: Iran is ruled with an iron fist by an evil Islamic dictator – it was not safe for me to go there, and I was simply…
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The Nazi Inspiring the Atlantic
In December 2020, the Atlantic published an article titled ‘The Nazi Inspiring China’s Communists’. The key fact behind the story was this: Chinese law professors, from its most prestigious universities – Tsinghua University, Peking University and others – have been inspired by the work of Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt. And the author argues that…