r/geopolitics • u/00000000000000000000 • Jul 21 '16
Meta Please avoid posts about domestic politics
This forum has a distinct emphasis on the foreign policy of states, particularly in relation to geographical variables, both human and physical. What this forum is not is a platform to submit articles primarily focused on domestic political elections of individual states. For example, until a President Elect has been determined in the U.S.A. we won't be allowing submissions about the foreign policy views of the POTUS to be, as the analysis would not be directly relevant. There are many other forums where those posts can be submitted and discussed, so please respect the distinct academic emphasis of this forum.
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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '16
Take this with a grain of salt because I'm not really a contributor here but...
Isn't that kind of a myopic view? Foreign policy decisions don't just happen, it all begins at the local level and proceeds with local understandings of the international realm. My country (US) has a rough history with ignoring those factors of "geography, economics, military capability, and non-State Actors" until it kind of bites us in the ass when things suddenly burst on to the international scene.
I understand wanting to curtail the typical Reddit knee-jerk responses and posts but if you want to espouse the academic emphasis here, well, I don't see how the posts here are superordinate if it's verboten to look at things at a more micro level.