{"id":63541,"date":"2015-02-16T08:55:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T16:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63541"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:55:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T16:55:44","slug":"is-australian-rapper-iggy-azalea-a-foreign-policy-realist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63541","title":{"rendered":"Is Australian Rapper Iggy Azalea A Foreign Policy Realist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Foreign Policy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

At the outset of her chart-topping single \u201cFancy,\u201d Australian rapper Iggy Azalea declares, \u201cFirst things first, I\u2019m the realest.\u201d But could that in fact be nothing but an utter mondegreen? Might Azalea in fact be declaring her loyalty to the \u201crealist\u201d camp in foreign policy thought?<\/p>\n

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Before you dismiss that question outright, consider this: Azalea has described herself as something of a fan of Francis Fukuyama. Seriously.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Paper, Azalea reveals that she\u2019s wading her way through Fukuyama\u2019s recent doorstopper, The Origins of Political Order.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to read,\u201d she told Paper. \u201cI\u2019m currently reading The Origins of Political Order. It starts at the beginning of time and goes up to the French Revolution. It\u2019s about how religion turned into politics and politics turned into religion. Actually, it\u2019s really informed how I look at the music industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

What might Azalea have learned from this book to gain insight into the music business? For most of his career, Fukuyama was an avowed neoconservative, but the Iraq war changed all that, leading Fukuyama to repudiate his views and fall back on a line of thinking still concerned with the spread of liberty but less willing to use American military force to promote it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Foreign Policy: At the outset of her chart-topping single \u201cFancy,\u201d Australian rapper Iggy Azalea declares, \u201cFirst things first, I\u2019m the realest.\u201d But could that in fact be nothing but an utter mondegreen? Might Azalea in fact be declaring her … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t