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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/8/2009

Are We Doomed?

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Justin Logan’s on leave from the high-stakes DC think tank blogging game to go to grad school, but along he comes chiming in with an IR theory question to mull over : Under unipolarity, what constraints are acting, given that structure really isn’t, and is there any reason to believe ...

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dailypundit.com - 1/8/2009

Those Who Don’t Know History Are Doomed….

— dailypundit.com — Instapundit » Blog Archive » THOSE LOW GAS PRICES WON’T LAST: Or not: It looks to me... as if the two oil spikes of the past 40 years were the aberratuions, and the recent collapse of the spike is merely returning us to the more normal ... (more) Those Who Don’t Know History Are Doomed….

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