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Monday links: Indonesia, Confucianism, urbanism, utopianism and more

Monday links: Indonesia, Confucianism, urbanism, utopianism and more

You can read a hundred studies about whether countries should care about where they get their oil from. Economists generally say they shouldn’t care. Security specialists say they should. But I was shocked that I could find a study about whether actual world leaders care about where they get their oil from. So I led a study with a colleague to drill down into that question and see if countries actually behave differently when they think they’re less vulnerable. And the answer is that they do.




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