It has been a whirlwind week for me, hence the lack of posting. I am currently in an airport waiting room on my way to see Lady Younghusband. I will be spending a few weeks in Japan while I wait for my master’s thesis defense to be arranged. Yes, after 6 long months, I finally submitted my opus on Japanese strategic culture and energy security policy. Well, not so much an opus. In fact, more like a red-headed stepchild I would like to drown. Anyways, I am stress free except for all the stress related to career search, working in Japan, travelling back to Canada where I have no place to live, etc.
Recently I have been thinking a lot about the reconciliation of disparate political priorities in representative democracies. I have been reflecting on my years as a grad student and found that the more I study history, politics and philosophy the more politically “moderate” I become. Nothing is worse than dogmatism (natch!). I plan on doing a proper post on that as soon as I do some more personal reconciliation. Check out this intriguing article on Anglo-Saxon attitudes
Here is what I have been reading online for the past couple of days:
- NZ’s FTA with China and geopolitical alignment in Oceania
- Shlok is thinking about a war podcast
- Jun Okumura weighs in on the JapaIn issue of The Economist
- Heil Dönitz!

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