States are rational actors, and they will always act in their own self-interest.
The most remarkable development of the last quarter of the twentieth century has been the revelation of enormous weaknesses at the core of the world's seemingly strong dictatorships.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
These walls are funny.First you hate them,then you get used to them;Enough time passes,gets so you depend on them.That's institutionalized.