[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Crooked Timber takes issue with the idea of navies to keep sea lanes open.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper speculating how Planet Nine formed.


• Geocurrents shares slides examining the Brazilian crisis.


• Joe. My. God. reports on the Colombian constitutional court's approval of same-sex marriage.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money wonders what will happen to the North Korean army's soldiers in the case of state failure.


• maximos62 notes the historical influences of Chinese and Indonesians in Australia, particularly in the north of the country.


• pollotenchegg maps the shifting distribution of the Ukrainian population from 1939.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer talks about, among other things, the New York City accent.


• Understanding Society looks at the ideologies and institutions which will help improve life in rural India.


• Window on Eurasia notes Russia's problems with dealing with its past and observes that the West did not want the Soviet Union to disintegrate.