Thinking abt sovereignty as a binary is limiting. The ability of the real (ie US/CHN/RUS) sovereigns to impose will is limited & depletable.
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Replying to @AngloRemnant
I'm inclined to agree with Schmitt that sovereignty is a theological notion. And so it's a notion that's only as useful ...
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Replying to @tonreihe @AngloRemnant
... as the theological baggage it pulls along in its wake. (You can smell the metaphysics in the first sentence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty …)
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Replying to @tonreihe @AngloRemnant
Here's a question, that I don't know the answer to: To what extent is talking of sovereignty a confused way of talking of jurisdiction?
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Replying to @tonreihe @AngloRemnant
I would personally prefer to limit discussion to jurisdiction, as that operationalizes the issue.
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Replying to @tonreihe @AngloRemnant
And formalism of the Moldbuggian variety is, to a large extent, an attempt to operationalize affairs, no?
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Your metaphysics observation is on the nose, & at the heart of reservations I have about the usefulness of sovereignty as a term..
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Replying to @AngloRemnant @tonreihe
.. As used it's a kind of expectations model of the real (running on fickle bio-hardware that we still dont well understand)..
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Replying to @AngloRemnant @tonreihe
..and those expectations can be updated Fast, by something not previously priced in.
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Replying to @AngloRemnant @tonreihe
.. I hate to be the guy that turns everything into a finance analogy, but here is one:
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Accurately projecting a few quarters P&L : sell side analyst :: _________: political scientists..
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Replying to @AngloRemnant @tonreihe
..the thing that fills in that blank isnt the political science equivalent of market value (bc emh & all that.) The real is outside.
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