The US-Saudi relationship, for example, is flawed at a very deep and basic level, despite the existence of a massive bilateral arms trade that has gone on for decades.
Analysts say that questioning from several conservative justices during oral arguments atthe court in March revealed a deeplevel scepticism on the bench.
This question, which at its more fundamental level is related to deep-seated epistemological and methodological controversies over objectivity in the social sciences, is of utmost practical relevance in the field of migration and multiculturalism which has been characterized by rather close relations to public policy concerns.