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Are we overproducing elites and instability? - Niskanen Center
niskanencenter.orgOur analysis points to four structural drivers of instability: popular immiseration leading to mass mobilization potential; elite overproduction resulting in intraelite conflict; failing fiscal health and weakened legitimacy of the state; and geopolitical factors. The most important driver is intraelite competition and conflict, which is a reliable
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War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Until well into the seventeenth century, the Ottoman sultans balanced their dependence on the political and military service of the Turkish aristocracy by recruiting a slave army of Muslim converts (perhaps seven or eight thousand a year) separated in childhood from their Christian parents. Devshirme recruitment obliterated the ties of kinship and
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