T. Greer

@Scholars_Stage

Macrohistory, East Asian Strategic Thought, Modern China & SE Asia • Writes for the Scholar’s Stage • ចេះខ្មែរតែ • 也會中文

Joined March 2009

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  1. On the other hand, I agree with 's second point of critique dynamics of chiefdoms !=empires

  2. other options, & as consensus is non-existent here, privileging any 1theory for critique would be controversial & at this point unwarranted

  3. is not yet the consensus theory the entire field (in this case fieldS) has solidified around. No reason to pick ultrasociality over a dozen

  4. their paper would expand into a 30-40 page lit review. Unreasonable to nitpick scholars for not engaging with one particular theory, esp it

  5. 2 dozen "theoretical alternatives" offered by over the last two decades to explain this same phenomena. Were they to argue against them all

  6. I don't think the first point argued by here is at all fair. I can list, off the top of my head, over

  7. Yes, this. Which is why Seoul agreed to it

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    Roman law forbidding the use of pants (mostly for xenophobic reasons) Codex Theodosianus 14.10.2 ...

  9. . two-facedness. If you refuse to cooperation w/us on NK, Seoul says to Beijing, then we'll cooperate w/U.S.A.

  10. . Beijing has been two faced for two long, and have decided to impose consequences for what they perceive as

  11. In reply to

    . Oh I think it is clear that is all about China. THAAD doesn't counter NK. It counters PRC. Seoul feels like

  12. Retweeted

    We analyzed the names of almost every Chinese restaurant in America. This is what we learned

  13. "there is a stark imbalance of Asia-focused experts age 25 to 35, across the foreign policy spectrum"

  14. "It is as if their souls have gone into hiding" --English grad school, destroying one lover of literature at a time

  15. North Korean restaurant workers defect en masse to South Korea

  16. In Cambodia, the Ghosts Prefer Dollars -Great piece.

  17. Best news all week SCMP is taking their paywall down

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