[LINK] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

I've only a few today.

• Crooked Timber examines the question of how immigration restrictions can be considered ethical.


• International relations expert Daniel Drezner points out that a global response to impending catastrophe would be far more disconcerted than the "Council of Elders" approach of apocalyptic fiction. Shades of the current greenhouse effect controversy?


• In what was originally an article from the Economist, Edward Lucas critically examines Czechoslovakia's history, examining the extent to which it did and did not live up to its claimed identity as a peaceful multiethnic pluralist country.


• We learn at the Volokh Conspiracy how those so minded can get RSS-using blogs to send updates to your Outlook Express inboxes. As if you need more mail in your inbox, I know.


• Window on Eurasia takes a brief look at how China's growing demand for water in its parched west has a negative impact on the downstream countries of Russia and Kazakhstan.