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November 24th, 2007

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Cooking with what you have

Robert Kaplan follows up his pre-Patraeus report analysis by widening his bottom-up tribalism theory to include Pakistan, Baluchistan and Afghanistan in his latest article in The Atlantic It’s the Tribes, Stupid!:

Where democratic governance does not exist, we must work with the material at hand. … Throughout the Arab world, old monarchial and authoritarian orders are now weakening. Keeping societies stable will depend largely on tribes, and the deals they are able to cut with one another. In the Middle East, an age of pathetic, fledgling democracies is also an age of tribes.

via Soob who also links to Adrian’s article How to attack an national identity as well as a pretty map.

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subadei
November 24, 2007
8:32 pm
thanks for the nod. commenter (and new fellow blog chum) cannoneer no. 4 passes on related reading of interest.
subadei
November 24, 2007
8:33 pm
bad link. the address: http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/pressfield_tribes.htm
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November 24, 2007
9:57 pm
[...] One of my favorite writers, Robert Kaplan has new piece out about tribal politics.  -  A true friend of America will be missed.-  It is a hard time for terrorists in northern [...]
Younghusband
November 25, 2007
5:23 pm
Ah, Pressfield. Interesting guy.

Related: John Robb says "Kaplan supports open source warfare":http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2007/11/journal-robert.html,
Adrian
November 26, 2007
2:07 am
Thanks for the link!