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> ASPI articles can be pretty weird at times Of course, and you always need the touted media literacy when reading pieces from these international relations in
by jruohonen 3y ago
> ASPI articles can be pretty weird at times
Of course, and you always need the touted media literacy when reading pieces from these international relations institutes and associated think-tanks, including OECD that was the subject matter of the piece.
- defrost 3y agoInternational? Nah, Meg's floating in the dam out in the paddock ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJZP6kAz_Fg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJZP6kAz_Fg I'm guessing you're Finnish (by your surname) so that's all a bit relative, I'm Australian so this is more local by my perspective. I get daily ASPI releases in my newsfeed.
- jruohonen 3y ago> International? International as in international relations, the field that studies foreign policy, security, and defense. While ASPI has branded itself as a strategy institute, it is still very much similar to those found in all Western countries.
- defrost 3y agoRight, Finnish. Thank you for taking the time to explain International Relations to an elderly Australian that's been reading daily and weekly newsfeeds on the subject for decades. I enjoyed visiting your country prior to 2000 and was delighted to be gifted a SAKO rifle and scope set for some work I did at the time mapping radiation from the air .. if only I had grasped the concept of "international relations" then I would have appreciated the experience all the more.
- jruohonen 3y agoNo need to be snark. As for IR, my opinion is that it hasn't really progressed as a field at all; mostly still speculation about contemporary matters in world politics with some vague theory thrown in.