[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdpei]

German politics, Slovakia's geopolitics, regionalism and cities in India, racism in science, and the benefits of self-governance for islands and the Internet alike--all are linked to here.

• Daniel Drezner is very unimpressed with German chancellor Angela Merkel, whose leadership style he describes as dithering and then announcing sudden policy

Comments

[springheel_jack]

So Europe's consensus now is that, to make a moral point, they're going to blow up the Euro? How does that benefit anyone at all?

[rfmcdpei]

Incoherent anger?

[mmcirvin]

What I get out of this is that the willingness to harm yourself just to make sure someone else doesn't get a freebie they didn't deserve is not a uniquely American trait.