As to Poul Anderson, for some reason I have a confusion between Poul Anderson and Frederik Pohl. I also checked Amazon on Poul Anderson titles and none were familiar so I can’t comment on him.

But since I mentioned Frederik Pohl let me say that his Heechee series was first rate and a similar accomplishment comparable to James Hogan’s series of the Gentile Giants — two clever, well constructed Science Fiction epics that remain in one’s mind for years.

I heard from a relative of A.E. van Vogt that he was dyslexic all his life and suffered for about a decade with dementia before his death. The relative called him Uncle Alfred and never read any of his short stories or novels, even though he sent many of them to his brother’s family over decades. Talk about casting pearls before swine!

Have you given Gene Wolfe or Poul Anderson a try?

The patrol was a subject of quite a few stories, many of which were about the social and organizational methods by which their impartiality were supposedly maintained, as well as one about one time when it almost failed.

Clicking through Isegoria’s links, it looks like Manu Saadia is a not-very-bright utopian socialist, so I guess lack of penetrating analysis is to be expected.

The conflict between the Patrol’s incredible power (via the nuclear monopoly) and its humanitarian aims is one of the central subjects of the books; they’re an attempt to explain how such an organization might be made to not immediately start abusing it’s power.

At the time, Heinlein thought that something like the Patrol, some super-national organization with a monopoly on nuclear weaponry, would be necessary to prevent the annihilation of the human race. He later moved on from that opinion.