Karlo Basta
@KarloBasta1
Politics of nationalism, institutions, business. Wrote The Symbolic State https://shorturl.at/qvNZ8. Writing The Business of Nations. Sr Lecturer @edinburghPIR
My book, The Symbolic State, is out (author copies hopefully in the mail, but I do know from friends and colleagues in different time zones that it’s now a palpable object). It took me, depending on how you look at it, either too long or just the right amount of time to finish...
By the time I start teaching my class on business power and economic nationalism in January, I'll have too much material to teach from ft.com/content/e39d7e…
So after all the handwringing/praise about how Trump's changed America, it's still a paradise for the rich and a rhino in a shop full of fine porcelain in international affairs
New blog! Constitutional Standoff in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Drama in Four Acts (So Far) Read Maja Sahadžić on the unfolding situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina: edin.ac/3GtOGtY
Asymptotically nearing that other quip about us all being dead in the long run
Did war write this?
Oh yeah, what can go wrong with stellar technology such as AI operating 30 ton vehicles and sharing the same space as cars carrying human beings ft.com/content/39fa66…
We now have a new & nicer venue for this event, so even if you aren't too drawn to a talk about how capitalism can (under *some* circumstances) check the power of nationalism, if you want to visit Edinburgh Futures Institute, come join us on March 31.
Change of venue! 'Money Talks: Business and the Politics of Independence' with @KarloBasta1 will now be held in Room 2.35, Edinburgh Futures Institute on 31 March, 3pm-4:30pm Registrations remain open! Further info: edin.ac/3Cv4g7b
New blog! Read @frasmcm of @ScotVoting on why Starmer's Labour government could prove decisive for Scotland's constitutional future. Read more: edin.ac/3Fba9XZ @EdinburghPIR @uoessps
This promises to be a great event 👇
We now have a new & nicer venue for this event, so even if you aren't too drawn to a talk about how capitalism can (under *some* circumstances) check the power of nationalism, if you want to visit Edinburgh Futures Institute, come join us on March 31.
Change of venue! 'Money Talks: Business and the Politics of Independence' with @KarloBasta1 will now be held in Room 2.35, Edinburgh Futures Institute on 31 March, 3pm-4:30pm Registrations remain open! Further info: edin.ac/3Cv4g7b
His far deeper and more pervasive legacy, and one that will outlast them all, is in the realm of ideas - after his reign, the notion that socialism was of necessity an unmitigated disaster became devilishly difficult to refute. That's with us still
The only legacy of Stalin's that survives is the borders: within the USSR after the republics became independent states (although Russia's attack on Ukraine puts that to test), in Eastern Europe (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia), Croatia & Slovenia (Istria) and in the West…
I suppose if you want to move fast and break lots of things, you need the thickest cudgel news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/op…
Nationalism's a helluva drug
The Liberal Party of Canada will have to dedicate a big beautiful monument to Trump
The Liberal Party of Canada will have to dedicate a big beautiful monument to Trump
⏰ CALL FOR PAPERS Scottish politics conference co-organised by the SES, @CCC_Research and hosted at @EdinburghPIR 12-13 May 2025 We look forward to welcoming researchers working on anything and everything related to Scottish politics a year out from the 2026 election 🏴🗳️
Full article: Mechanisms of mobilisation: Catalonia’s ‘procés’ and the lost autonomy theories of secession tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… with @KarloBasta1