In this Episode we discuss the Movie brat 2(2000)! the sequel to the seminal post soviet Russian film brat(1997). This time the budget is bigger and the story is all over the place! check it out its on YouTube. 

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In which Yves and Cameron get very technical about what a state is, what does it mean to be a stateless person, and the problems associated with this phenomenon. I promise it's more interesting than it sound, please validate my International Relations degree. 

3:38 - *what a nation is composed of…

14:30 - Upon editing this, I realize that I wasn’t quite clear with my explainer: the factors I mentioned are not inherently tied to the likelihood of the outbreak of insurgency, but rather those are the factors that political scientists measure in relation to conflict outbreak to see if there is a relationship (it is stronger for some than others)

14:38 - Ethnicity, Insurgency, And Civil War by Fearon and Laitin

26:03 - A 10 Year Campaign to End Statelessness

42:46 - What’s Really Driving the Azerbaijani-Armenian Conflict by Djene Rhys Bajalan, Sara Nur Yildiz, and Vazken Khatchig Davidian

43:28 - Without Russian Aid to Armenia, Azerbaijan has the Upper Hand in Nagorno-Karabakh by Robert Cutler

49:23 - The Capitalist Peace by Erik Gartzke