Societies on the move
Topics
The anti-nomadic bias of political theory
Stateless societies
Principles of a nomadic society
Barbarians at the gate
Read
Gibbon, “Manners of the Pastoral Nations,” 1782
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Gibbon_1854_Manners of the pastoral nations
Turnbull, The Forest People, 1984
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Turnbull_1984_The Good Death of Balekimito
Watch
Parag Khanna, "Why Mobility Is Destiny"
Listen
In Our Time, "Ibn Khaldun"
Download audio
Activities
Tinariwen
Chief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library
Check out
this web page
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POLS 411
No non-Western IR theory?
Failed states, failed theories
Western IR theory
Competitive systems
IR theory in competitive systems
Imperial systems
Mid-term exam
Updated empires
Societies on the move
Networked states
The Bandung spirit
Pan-Nationalism
Final exam
