Finals Week's

It's finals time. Sorry for the lack of posting; but here is an excerpt from an essay I wrote which is kind of amusing.

The state was free to decide how it wanted to view the world and the outcome does not change the fact that the state held a different belief than that of the hegemonic power. Imagine a man who is a devout follower of pantheistic religion. The man dies, goes to heaven, and discovers that not only does a single all-powerful god exist; but He is a spaghetti monster. The existence of the spaghetti monster god does not change the fact that the man was once believed that there wasn’t a single god. The fact that a state which held a non-realist view of international politics is conquered by a hegemonic power does not change the fact that there was a point in time when the two states had differing interpretations and views of international politics. The reality that one state conquered another does not change the fact that two different view points can exist.

Later days,