Comments on: How Big Should a Country Be? http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/08/how_big_should.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:19:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Miriam Cherry http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/08/how_big_should.html/comment-page-1#comment-47612 Miriam Cherry Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:46:55 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/08/how-big-should-a-country-be.html#comment-47612 Does second life need an army? Does second life need an army?

]]> By: A.J. Sutter http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/08/how_big_should.html/comment-page-1#comment-47611 A.J. Sutter Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:19:07 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/08/how-big-should-a-country-be.html#comment-47611 "I think that there is a pretty good case to be made that Africa has too many countries." What's the basis of this case? Given the frequency of bloody civil wars in African countries that are usually along ethnic lines, could you explain how would you propose to create even larger agglomerations than currently exist? Economics doesn't always trump political factors, no matter how "rational" kit mioght seem to do so. “I think that there is a pretty good case to be made that Africa has too many countries.” What’s the basis of this case? Given the frequency of bloody civil wars in African countries that are usually along ethnic lines, could you explain how would you propose to create even larger agglomerations than currently exist? Economics doesn’t always trump political factors, no matter how “rational” kit mioght seem to do so.

]]> By: matt http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/08/how_big_should.html/comment-page-1#comment-47610 matt Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:13:19 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/08/how-big-should-a-country-be.html#comment-47610 "States that win wars survive and states that lose wars don't." There might be a sense in which this is true (it's probably true for regimes, for example) but it seems false for states, at least generally. The losers of WWII seem to be around more than the winners these days, for example. So, I'm skeptical that this will be a very useful analytic tool. “States that win wars survive and states that lose wars don’t.”

There might be a sense in which this is true (it’s probably true for regimes, for example) but it seems false for states, at least generally. The losers of WWII seem to be around more than the winners these days, for example. So, I’m skeptical that this will be a very useful analytic tool.

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