Speaker: Mark Beissinger (Princeton)
DRAFT
First impression is that everyone is very shiny and affluent, young academics and future bureaucrats.
Looking at how location affects revolution challenge and state repression.
Safe but infective in rural areas, close to power in urban areas revaluations have more impact but are much more dangerous for the revolutionaries.
State capacity is a key.
It’s very academic about classification, and adding numbers and maths to this. Interesting but like most Oxford events there is little connection to the subject talked about.
There is value here but l am struggling to find it.
I ask about Putin Russia and the possibility that he feels the will be a weakening of the state when Putin dies, but feels it will be an elite fight, which might open a space for external forces.
I would look at it as the suckups and the grassroots rather than urban and rural? But this would not be academic based on data’ish
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