Iza Ding
@izading
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Political Science Professor @NorthwesternU • writer • photographer • https://t.co/iv8CC6KwPe
Joined August 2009
A guest post by the wonderful @izading on the @SinicaPodcast: On Schopenhauer, Buddhism, and the obscure philosopher's strange afterlife in China and Korea. Link follows.
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Beneath a Cinderella story gone wrong lies the tangled reality of class, sex, and Great Power politics. My new essay: "Anora, Russia, America" https://t.co/jVLfEDcBDe
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The end of the post-Cold War order and disillusion by @AyseZarakol, Burkean liberals and their fears of change by @izading, hyperpolitics and the lack of impact on power and policy by @oliver_eagleton, and more in the latest edition of The Ideas Letter:
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Ayşe Zarakol is one of the premier historians of international relations. The history and future of world orders is a recurring subject for Zarakol, and her piece for Ideas Letter…
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The father of modern conservatism considered himself a liberal. My new essay in The Ideas Letter explores liberalism’s existential crisis—from 1789 to now. https://t.co/pg5TFGF18v If you like my words, follow along: https://t.co/srVpULY0Nd
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Here's another thoughtful and timely essay, this time by @izading on Gibbon, China, and the US obsession with Decline:
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Western historiography generally understands history as a line and is preoccupied with the rise and fall of empires. In China however the line of history is an ever-repeating circle, with…
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Brilliant essay by @izading in @TheIdeasLetter "Rather than getting swept up in the collective effervescence of status anxiety, only to look for an elixir in the intellectual Viagra of declinism, perhaps we should forget Gibbon." Shouldn't need China to improve ourselves 1/2
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The entire issue ( https://t.co/ZAY0mJAee3) is very worth reading, including contributions from @stephenWalt on the US, Lee Siegel on culture, @BasharatPeer on India, @ursulind on the Middle East, @NataliaSaltalam on Mexico, @hanskundnani on Europe, @kirillrogov on Russia, Cheta
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Is America in decline? As always, it depends on whom you ask—for some the slope seems to get steeper every day. Global catastrophes from Ukraine to Gaza certainly point to…
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“Goodbye, Gibbon” ( https://t.co/yOt3dJpr8g) is an essay I had the quiet pleasure of writing for The Ideas Letter from the @OpenSociety. In which I offer my non-answer to the question “Is America in decline from a Chinese perspective?” I conclude: “We should be careful not to
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Western historiography generally understands history as a line and is preoccupied with the rise and fall of empires. In China however the line of history is an ever-repeating circle, with…
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Join Academy fall fellow & @PoliSciatNU @izading for the Global History Colloquium at @FU_Berlin on "Liberalism, Nationalism, & Paths Out of Reform: A Comparison of Late-Qing China & Nineteenth-Century Germany." Monday, Nov. 11, 16:15 CET Details: https://t.co/ijEL1DmekN
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"Mongolia has made many of the theories and concepts I’ve been teaching students in political science courses in the US seem absurd," writes @izading in our Berlin Journal, as she reflects on her research on climate change in the central Asian country: https://t.co/WxyBAXztI9
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Excited to share my Berlin Journal piece "Tangible Knowledge"! https://t.co/5yxnCJ3aiz I'll be giving a nonacademic lecture on Tuesday evening, Oct 22, at the @AmericanAcademy. You're welcome to attend, either online or in person if you're in Berlin. Register here:
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