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Who gets to say what counts as a country? — Charles Crawford — Aeon
Fri, 06/09/2013 - 9:09am — CarolVery interesting article
Homelands: Should nations stay within their historical boundaries? @CharlesCrawford in Aeon today: http://t.co/mjWm0ZqFny
— Aeon Magazine (@aeonmag) September 5, 2013
There are only two questions in politics: who decides? and who decides who decides? Every country solves these questions in its own way, be it through democracy, autocracy or dictatorship. But however it answers, the same dilemma emerges again at a deeper level. Who gets to say what is or is not a country?
