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Confederating Central Asia: The Iroquois Model
The year is 1701. A fire burns inside a colossal wooden Longhouse near modern-day Syracuse, New York. Around it delegates from five...
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Dec 11, 20226 min read


Legislating Letters: Kazakhstan’s Alphabetical Experiment
Only one army can march into a city with a measly squadron of around 26 soldiers and orchestrate a coup without firing a single bullet....
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Steppe by Steppe: Nursultan Nazarbayev and Incremental Systems Change in Kazakhstan
In the wake of Yahya Jammeh’s arrest at the hands of Senegalese forces, Vladimir Putin’s return to one of his alleged favorite pastimes,...
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Feb 24, 20176 min read
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