Dan asks, "Am I missing something?"

Answer: Nope

I find most of the ideas and sloppy thinking pushed by those like Slaughter derive not so much from new insight into how the world actually works, but rather from a deep desire to wish it did not work the way it does. I like to think of it as 'aspirational functionalism" ...meaning they identify issues they believe "must be (wish were being) addressed, see that they are not, then latch on to the flimsiest of evidence to assert that new methods will bring about the outcomes they wish by sheer force of necessity.

Those who engage in this have left the realm of social science and entered that cloud cuckoo land inhabited by Thomas Friedman.

The other insight from Slaughter's remarks...smart people do not always do smart analysis.

While Slaughter may well be on a fool's errand, i'm not convinced that her interest in exploring the "frontiers" of foreign policy (a hat tip to the long-running work of James Rosenau on this front is warranted, but perhaps is included in her full post) is "wishful thinking".

The key point noted by Slaughter (and an emerging set of academics working in the discipline) is that there are a great many, and varied, non- and sub-state actors engaged in a whole host of activities that span local, regional, national, and international borders - the C40 group of cities engaged in attempts to coordinate responses to climate but one, albeit very interesting, example.

The key question, as you note, is that we really (in the scholarly as well as the practitioner communities) have no clue about how such initiatives function (if they aren't oriented solely around the objective of influencing state action, but are instead involved in creating, implementing, and enforcing rules on one another) and what impacts that can/may have.

This collective uncertainty demands scholarly attention, empirical analysis, and theoretical creativity. This does not mean that IR needs to adopt a stance of the "decline of the state" - rather it points to the need to think through the ways in which these emerging structures of governance (and agents of governance) interact with one another, such that they increase/decrease the collective capacity to respond to the pressing issues highlighted by Slaughter.

No mention of how guerrillas and conflicts can go unreported for decades until a major power gets involved? Wait, am I talking about the 1950s or the 21st century?

Maybe how revolutionaries threaten old allies of the West? Wait, am I talking about the 1950s or the 21st century?

Or what about this, elite cooperation in other nations that get randomly name dropped like Singapore betraying the author's horrible understanding of the situation? Wait, am I talking about the 1950s or the 21st century?

Kinetic military actions it is for sure, and why just trade, it doesn’t seem anything’s fair anymore. In fact there’s no room for free speech either in the real sense, leave alone fair practices.

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Against these surges of national feeling Professor Royce would erect dikes in the form of provincialism, the resistance of separate sections each with its own traditions, beliefs and aspirations. "Our national unities have grown so vast, our forces of social consolidation so paramount, the resulting problems, conflicts, evils, have become so intensified," he says, that we must seek in the province renewed strength, usefulness and beauty of American life.

Whatever may be thought of this philosopher's appeal for a revival of sectionalism, on a higher level, in order to check the tendencies to a deadening uniformity of national consolidation (and to me this appeal, under the limitations which he gives it, seems warranted by the conditions)--it is certainly true that in the history of the United States sectionalism holds a place too little recognized by the historians. By sectionalism I do not mean the struggle between North and South which culminated in the Civil War. That extreme and tragic form of sectionalism indeed has almost engrossed the attention of historians, and it is, no doubt, the most striking and painful example of the phenomenon in our history. But there are older, and perhaps in the long run more enduring examples of the play of sectional forces than the slavery struggle, and there are various sections besides North and South.

Indeed, the United States is, in size and natural resources, an empire, a collection of potential nations, rather than a single nation. It is comparable in area to Europe. If the coast of California be placed along the coast of Spain, Charleston, South Carolina, would fall near Constantinople; the northern shores of Lake Superior would touch the Baltic, and New Orleans would lie in southern Italy. Within this vast empire there are geographic provinces, separate in physical conditions,
into which American colonization has flowed, and in each of which a special society has developed, with an economic, political and social life of its own. Each of these provinces, or sections, has developed its own leaders, who in the public life of the nation have voiced the needs of their section,
contended with the representatives of other sections, and arranged compromises between sections in national legislation and policy, almost as ambassadors from separate countries in a European congress might make treaties.

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That traditional world certainly still exists. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's calendar reflects enormous swathes of time spent on states like North Korea, Iran, and Burma; negotiating complicated relationships with states like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, China and Russia,
and adapting to the changing status of rising powers like India, Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, and Turkey. There's also what George Shultz called "gardening," making sure that U.S. relations with allies,
neighbors, and friendly states remain well-tended. But Clinton herself insists that 21st century diplomacy must not only be government to government, but also government to society and society to society,
in a process facilitated and legitimated by government. That much broader concept opens the door to a do-it-yourself foreign policy, in which individuals and groups can invent and execute an idea -- for good or ill -- that can affect their own and other countries in ways that once only governments could.

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The key point noted by Slaughter (and an emerging set of academics working in the discipline) is that there are a great many, and varied, non- and sub-state actors engaged in a whole host of activities that span local, regional, sázkové kancelá?e national, and international borders - the C40 group of cities engaged in attempts to coordinate responses to climate but one, albeit very interesting, example.The key question, as you note, is that we really (in the scholarly as well as the practitioner communities) have no clue about how such initiatives function (if they aren't oriented solely around the objective of influencing state action, but are instead involved in creating, implementing, and enforcing rules on one another) and what impacts that can/may have. Within this vast empire there are geographic provinces, separate in physical conditions,into which American colonization has flowed, and in each of which a special society has developed, with an economic, political and social oblozuvalnici life of its own. Each of these provinces, or sections, has developed its own leaders, who in the public life of the nation have voiced the needs of their section,contended with the representatives of other sections, and arranged compromises between sections in national legislation and policy, almost as ambassadors from separate countries in a European congress might make treaties.

I suspect these groups would strongly prefer joint government action to their own initiatives, as the only viable means to mitigate the effects of increased greenhouse gas emissions. I think there is need of using fair practices for such situations. Thanks Apple News
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