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The hollow state: why Lebanon became a country that cannot govern itself — and what it predicts

The buffer zone doctrine: how temporary military occupations become permanent

The colonial origins of central banking: why every central bank is still paying for a 17th-century war

The invention of the nation-state: why the world’s default political unit...

Why cities don’t work the way their planners intended — and...

How lighthouses became the first example of a public good —...

How a single Dutch auction decision in 1602 shaped every stock...

Why certain languages are vanishing in two generations while others nearly...

How soil types predicted the outcome of the American Civil War

The geography of debt: why certain nations borrow in currencies they...

How Switzerland stays neutral — the actual legal and military architecture...

What happens to a country’s debt when it ceases to exist

Why rivers make poor borders — and why we keep using...