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Lindsay P Cohn
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Political Scientist/Assoc Prof @ USNWC (all views own), Visiting Assoc Prof @ Columbia SIPA; civ-mil relations, military orgs/manpower, public opinion, foreign policy, militarized policing, democratic theory, intl law
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… but sometimes power shifts and there are groups that are unhappy w the institutions as they are, and those institutions suffer a loss of legitimacy. When this happens, the institutions must either adapt with the shift in political power, or resist and attempt to subdue the opposition 6/

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When this happens, the distance between law and justice has become too stark; the state and the nation (or bits of it) are at odds; the concept of rule of law is no longer neutral but defense of one order against another possible order 7/

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Lindsay P Cohn
@lindsaypcohn.bsky.social
Political Scientist/Assoc Prof @ USNWC (all views own), Visiting Assoc Prof @ Columbia SIPA; civ-mil relations, military orgs/manpower, public opinion, foreign policy, militarized policing, democratic theory, intl law
444 followers309 following198 posts