This is a collection of my posts about how authors can use ideas from politics in their writing. Many of these posts have been deepened and expanded into a book, Beyond Kings and Princesses: Govern…| Building Worlds
In previous posts, we discussed Jeremy Weinstein’s argument of how rebel groups’ initial access to resources tends to put into motion a series of cascading decisions over who to recruit…| Building Worlds
We fiction writers often feature resistance movements in our stories. American culture in particular lionizes rebels and guerrillas, thanks in part to our rose-colored cultural memory of the Americ…| Building Worlds
In previous blog posts, we discussed Jeremy Weinstein’s work on the internal dynamics of rebel groups, and how they lead some groups to commit indiscriminate violence against civilians. In a …| Building Worlds
