Great to see this special issue out at International Studies Review. Thanks to Paul Diehl, Gary Goertz, Andrew Owsiak, and Luis Schenoni for putting it together.

Thank you! I hope you like it.

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.”

Thanks. I encourage you to read the book. A constitutional convention is one of the things I discuss.

Thank you so much for the interest!

One takeaway is that there are recurring patterns to how precolonial states ruled over space, independent of the geographic setting.