I've been reading a book with the above title, including the punctuation mark as above. The book was written by a committee, the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA). Michael Ndletyana and David Maimela are credited as editors. MISTRA, I add (reading from the copy on the back cover) was "founded by a group of South Africans ... who saw the need to create a platform for engagement around strategic issues facing South Africa." It is, in short, a think tank, launched in March 2011. MISTRA's definition of resource nationalism is a political drive to increase the extent and types of state intervention in the extractive sectors of the economy. Extraction means what it sounds like it means -- what happens when something is taken out of the ground. That something may be oil, coal, diamonds, etc. The political drive in question is not necessarily limited to what happens in the capital city of the nation state where the resources to be extracted are...
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I know that a lot of news has passed under the current-events bridge of late, but: does everyone remember the Batman murders in Aurora, Colorado? Summer of 2012? I recall it because the trial date in approaching (October '14) and because it has already spurred some ancillary appellate litigation in which regular readers of this blog may well have opinions. The US Supreme Court decided on May 27, 2014 that it would not hear an appeal from a decision of the highest state court in New York. That court had employed the state's "shield" law to quash a subpoena issued in Colorado. so you have issues of interstate comity, state/federal relations etc. The gist of it is that somebody involved in this case violated a trial court gag order issued by the Colorado court and talked to a reporter in New York. [A reporter for Fox News, which of course doesn't matter as a matter of legal principle at all but may matter to some readers for all I know. Further,...