With declining launch costs and the rise of private space companies, humanity appears to be embarking on another phase of expansion into the final frontier.[1] Billionaire commercial space leaders such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos tout this expansion as an unambiguously positive development, offering tremendous opportunities for prosperity, safeguarding life’s continued existence, and fulfilling…
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H-Diplo | RJISSF Review Essay 66 Brew on Thompson, Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
The first twenty years of the twenty-first century have witnessed a seemingly never-ending sequence of global calamities. From 9/11 and the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 and Great Recession, the Arab Spring, the Syrian civil war, Brexit, the 2016 election of Donald Trump, and the 2020 COVID…