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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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The Gossip Trap - By Erik Hoel - The Intrinsic Perspective
erikhoel.substack.comerikhoel.substack.comWar for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
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Peter the Great understood that the survival of his regime depended upon membership of the European states system and the diplomatic leverage it could be used to secure – like his useful alliance with Denmark against Sweden. To be driven out of ‘political Europe’ by Poland or Sweden would have been a catastrophe.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
