Robert Kaplan: The Tragic Mind
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Is the Individualism in Tragedy a Skewed View of International Relations?
Do you think the individualism that seems to be inherent in tragedy cuts across the modern understanding of how events work? We live in democracies, largely. We see democratic order and large movements of people historians tend to think, you know, the great men in theory history has gone out. Do that individualism make tragedy rather a kind of slightly skewed way of looking at international relations? No, I don't think so, because I still think we're dealing with big figures now just as we just as we did in the past.
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