Years of Poems and Spirits

How the story is developed (confusion, ignorance, cacophony)

The Russian aggression narrative vs. the provoked Russian theory

Which one comes out on top eventually?

The role the Georgian president SAAKASHVILI played: a modern day Croesus? “元嘉草草，封狼居胥，赢得仓皇北顾” (I was just looking into the history of 北魏 the day before …)

Russia is going to have to come to terms with the reality it can either integrate with the world or it can be a self-isolated bully. But it can’t be both. And that’s a choice Russia has to have,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082703192_pf.html

Need to cover:

1. NYKr article about Chinese nationalism

2. Foreign Affairs catholic univ. prof. “people killing each other” article

3. NYT Belgium Walloons and Flanders article (The most successful failed state)

Other things to write:

1. Yu Dan?

2. Violence and the post violence state, the Negara theme