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Why are superstates rare?
Short answer: logistics.
Long answer: The extent of a state (both historically and pragmatically) is the range over which it can effectively project both military and constabulary force. A state is ...
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Why are superstates rare?
Frame challenge. Early USSR did actually want to be a superstate by using World Revolution to repeatedly absorb its neighbors in the form of newly formed Soviet Republics.
This did not actually pan ...
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Why are superstates rare?
The closest to the (vaguely defined) superstates are empires and federal states.
Empire
An empire is a political unit made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, ...
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Can the Tyranny of the Majority rule be applied to the UN's General Assembly?
Yes, the tyranny of the majority rule can be applied to the UN's General Assembly.
There are few, if any, measures in the UNGA that are known to work at the level of a nation to counteract the tyranny ...
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What are some progressive critiques of the concept of democracy and human rights?
There are about a billion academic books on democracy out there. I'd suggest you start with Robert Dahl's "On Democracy" and Hannah Arendt's "The Human Condition", but the sky's ...
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Can the Tyranny of the Majority rule be applied to the UN's General Assembly?
Is comparing UN inaction towards PRC the best of comparisons? Given that PRC has a veto and has developed client relationships with much of the developing world? And, far as I know, PRC, for all its ...
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Can the Tyranny of the Majority rule be applied to the UN's General Assembly?
Additionally, UNGA has a procedure that allows a simple majority to call a vote that subjects a resolution (or amendment) to a 2/3 majority threshold for adoption. This surely because of their broader ...
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Can the Tyranny of the Majority rule be applied to the UN's General Assembly?
From the Wikipedia quote:
The tyranny of the majority (or tyranny of the masses) is an inherent weakness to majority rule
The key word there is "rule". The UN General Assembly has no power ...
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What are some progressive critiques of the concept of democracy and human rights?
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Therefore, I invite answers regarding political philosophers who have expanded on these ideas: ... and a more precise formulation and set of reasons of what “rules” there should be, amongst ...
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