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Ryan D. Griffiths
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Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University
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New Books: The Disunited States (Oxford UP, 2025) and Before Colonization (Columbia UP, 2025, with Charles Butcher)
Thank you! I hope you like it.
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This article offers an interesting twist on the analogy between national divorce and marital divorce – an analogy that I critique in The Disunited States. The author argues that where California is concerned, the US Government is guilty of “constructive abandonment.”
October 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thanks. I encourage you to read the book. A constitutional convention is one of the things I discuss.
September 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Thank you so much for the interest!
August 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
One takeaway is that there are recurring patterns to how precolonial states ruled over space, independent of the geographic setting.
August 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM