Empires versus Nation-States | Building Worlds
What’s the difference between a country and an empire? It depends. Annoyingly, “empire” is one of those terms that picks up several different meanings, and gets used in different …| Building Worlds
What’s the difference between a country and an empire? It depends. Annoyingly, “empire” is one of those terms that picks up several different meanings, and gets used in different …| 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
In a previous post, I discussed the theory of Jeremy Weinstein on why some rebel groups act in a relatively restrained manner towards civilians, while other groups engage in indiscriminate violence…| Building Worlds
