{"id":1967,"date":"2006-10-13T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2006-10-13T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T01:05:00","slug":"1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1967","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>CHIROL&#8217;S MICROPOWER<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chirol<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cominganarchy.com\/\"><strong>Coming Anarchy<\/strong> <\/a>artfully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cominganarchy.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/12\/becoming-a-micropower\/\">expands on the Micropower discussion <\/a>that went down recently at<a href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2006\/10\/journal_the_noo.html\"> <strong>Global Guerillas<\/strong><\/a>, also adding a visual homage to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orgnet.com\/VKbio.html\">Valdis Krebs<\/a><\/strong>.  I&#8217;m not sure Ukraine can be regarded as &#8221; micro&#8221; given its size, population and economic potential, but I think Chirol is illustrating possible strategic behaviors for a state as much as he is categorical characteristics of micropower status.<\/p>\n<p>A future discussion of geographic micropowers that are economic macropowers, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/sn.html\">Singapore<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradearabia.com\/tanews\/newsdetails_snECO_article111884_cnt.html\">U.A.E<\/a>. , is warranted.  Small states can acquire considerable amounts of economic &#8221; hard power&#8221; &#8211; or for that matter, illicit, &#8221; black globalization&#8221; flows via tight bank secrecy laws or porous borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHIROL&#8217;S MICROPOWER Chirol at Coming Anarchy artfully expands on the Micropower discussion that went down recently at Global Guerillas, also adding a visual homage to Valdis Krebs. I&#8217;m not sure Ukraine can be regarded as &#8221; micro&#8221; given its size, population and economic potential, but I think Chirol is illustrating possible strategic behaviors for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}