Land of Some Other Order

  • Why I'm Mad at the New York Times
    Evan Rolfe | September 13th, 2010
    For the record, I love the New York Times.  It's a pretty good newspaper, so I'm surprised when they make errors like this: The deadline, if adopted by the European Parliament and Council of Ministers, the Parliament’s upper chamber, would...
  • A government by any other name would act as bureaucratically
    Evan Rolfe | August 4th, 2010
    I apologize for the delay in getting this out.  Real work comes up and it tends to be more important.  I will get to the Balkanization post soon.  I just have been thinking about some things that require less use of Excel and about...
  • State Symbolism in the Balkans
    Dress for the alliance you want, not the alliance you have...
    Evan Rolfe | July 29th, 2010
    Last week's ruling from the International Court of Justice refocused attention (at least mine) on the Balkans.  The ruling basically stated that there was no prohibition in international law on unilateral declarations of statehood, but there...
  • Raising the European Flag over Príncipe Pío, Madrid
    The Land of Some Other Order: An Introduction
    Evan Rolfe | July 27th, 2010
    Greetings, all. My name is Evan Rolfe and I'm going to be a senior at Brown.  I fear that in many ways this blog will be quite unlike others on the Global Conversation for a handful of reasons: I'm not in any exciting part of the world....