welcome evgeny
we have been following & enjoying your quest since
message 6179
& the clavers have generally been embedded here since
message 661
nor would we have it any other way
but the discussion of the relationship between claves
& multipointing actually began as early as message 390
now about your excellent clave collection as of today
the only adjustments i would make in it if i were
doing it
are happily confined to the first few lines
but these may even help ultimately with your
comprehensive political & economic theory
for i mean to refer to the several postsoviet armenia
azerbaijan ghost claves
all of which
as you probably also realize
have actually been overrun & defunct for more than a
decade now
& any theory of clavity
or of any other aspect of reality for that matter
must of course recognize present de facto realities as
more real than prior de jure ones
of course a prior de jure clavity may some day be
reconstituted
for there is always a slight probability that such a
cumbersome historical happenchance could chance to
happen twice
but of course the reality on the ground trumps
everything anyway
& this is most especially true wherever one considers
clavity
which is
after all
more than anything else
just an accident of physicality that nature seems to
abhor almost as much as a vacuum
so i suppose any comprehensive theory of clavity would
be crowned by the alchemical principle of simply
helping nature do faster what she will do herself
anyway given time
which in this case is
if not to simply rupture & annihilate the claves
then to first soften & finally entirely erase all
their distinction
--- Evgeny Vinokurov <
evgeny@...> wrote:
> Dear BP members, after being a passive reader of the
> forum for three
> years I want to join the club. I am working on
> enclaves and exclaves
> trying to come up with a more general political and
> economic theory.
> In this work profited a great deal from the forum
> and from the
> individual sites (Rolf, Jan and others!) The field
> is totally
> underresearched in the academic literature (one of
> the notable
> exceptions is Brendan Whyte with his excellent books
> on Cooch Behar
> and Baarle) so you are the pioneers!
> What I really need to be able to more forward is to
> complete the
> tables of statistics which contain data on enclaves'
> geography,
> politics, and economics. You can find this Excel
> file under
> http://www.vinokurov.info/enclaves.htm. Hopefully
> you will find it
> interesting. I would appreciate if you could provide
> me with any
> supplementary data: the size and composition of the
> population,
> economic activities, distance to mainland etc.
> Regards,
> Evgeny
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