The Problem of Crazy States

Memory sometimes plays tricks. My memory tells me that about 15 years ago an Israeli academic wrote a book entitled Crazy States. It also tells me that the thesis was interesting and sound, but that the book, most unfortunately, was unreadable. Perhaps that is why my memory fails to come up with the name of the author, to whom; therefore, I owe a double apology.

The problem of “crazy states” is unfortunately very much with us. What are crazy states? The term is almost self-explanatory: states conducted by crazed dictators or cliques who, not content with inflicting some particular form of insanity upon their own people, have a compulsion to export their ideas in violent ways.

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Memory sometimes plays tricks. My memory tells me that about 15 years ago an Israeli academic wrote a book entitled Crazy States. It also tells me that the thesis was interesting and sound, but that the book, most unfortunately, was unreadable. Perhaps that is why my memory fails to come up with the name of the author, to whom; therefore, I owe a double apology.

The problem of “crazy states” is unfortunately very much with us. What are crazy states? The term is almost self-explanatory: states conducted by crazed dictators or cliques who, not content with inflicting some particular form of insanity upon their own people, have a compulsion to export their ideas in violent ways.