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Bhumics: Polyconflict, Part 3
The pace is picking up at Polyconflict HQ.
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Bhumics: Polyconflict, Part 2
If the appropriate response to a crisis is 'management,' the appropriate response to a conflict is 'security.' The two have very different logics, even…
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Bhumics: Polyconflict, Part 1
This post is the first short post in a series of frequent short posts on the emerging Polyconflict.
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Bhumics 20: Coca Conclusions
This is my last essay on Coca for a while, not because I have lost interest in the subject, but because I want to focus my efforts on the twin prongs of…
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Bhumics 19: Coca as a Trace Substance
Trace Substances
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May 2025

April 2025

Bhumics 15: The Pauper, Part 8 -- series conclusion
I am going to take a short break ~ two or three weeks and come back with some new ideas and readings.
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Bhumics 14: The Pauper, Part 7
As we delve deeper into Machiavelli’s analysis, his exploration of political survival increasingly resembles a handbook for navigating our fragmented…
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Bhumics Sidebar: Is Humpty Dumpty Dead?
The Fragmentation of Climate Action in a Polyconflict World
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Bhumics 13: The Pauper, Part 6
As we continue our journey through Machiavelli's infamous manual of statecraft, we arrive at a particularly revealing section where his pragmatic…
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Bhumics 12: The Pauper, Part 5 - The Receding Tide
From this article in 1843 Magazine (published by the Economist):
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March 2025

Bhumics Week 11: The Pauper, Part 4
The key insight for me from these three chapters was the sign of the interregnum that Machiavelli unknowingly chronicles.
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Bhumics Week 10: The Pauper, Part 3
Can the Pauper become a Prince?
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Bhumics 9: The Pauper, Part 2
The path to power is often easier than the journey of maintaining it.
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Bhumics Week 8: The Pauper, Part 1
Humans, perhaps uniquely among our animal peers, have the capacity for counterfactual reasoning.
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Bhumics Week 7: The RBIO Part 4
I ended last week’s essay with a contingent critique of the juridical conception of the RBIO - the abdication of the Leviathan from its post.
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February 2025

Bhumics Sidebar: From Polycrisis to Polyconflict
I have an extra essay this week - I have been thinking about how “Polycrisis,” the term du jour of the past five years is already obsolete, and should…
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Bhumics Week 6: The RBIO Part 3
In the litany of the rules-based international order, we start with the great institutions that uphold it, however flawed.
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Bhumics Week 5: The RBIO Part 2
I have long been intrigued by the varied and often competing understandings of the rule of law.
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Bhumics Week 4: The RBIO Part 1
Why am I talking about the rules-based international order (RBIO)?
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Bhumics Week 3: “The Pauper”
Quote of the week:
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January 2025

Bhumics Week 2
On Defeat and Positivity
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