Cartel Boats (thread 5), Episode 6: When Weber Answers Locke: The State, Bureaucracy, and Drug Boat Strikes

In this episode, Max Weber speaks back to John Locke through a sociological lens, using U.S. strikes on drug-running boats as a case study.

Weber interprets these interdictions as examples of modern, bureaucratic, and routinized violence, and raises questions about legitimacy, the blurring of policing and war, and the autonomous expansion of state power.