Observations from Italy, 2018. Here in Italy’s South Tirol, there are no great political convictions, only the constant complaint against whoever is in power. I often image that if Mussolini’s ghost won the next election, the attitude would be the… Read More ›
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Fascist Opposition to Hitlerism?
Bogumil, Austria, from my understanding, became a Fascist country when the Vaterland Front seized power in Wien. Their seizure of power was part of a long-term effort to implement a Fascist model of State Corporatism in the country. By trying… Read More ›
Update (8 December 2022)
I made some important discoveries regarding the latest ARPLAN post. It seems like the Anschluss of 1938 was far from being the simple affair that it is often portrayed in the history books. There could have been a major conflict… Read More ›
The Cold War’s Other Eastern Bloc?
Bogumil, Oh, you were not aware about the information I mentioned in my previous comment? Those were some interesting tidbits that I found, and there were a couple more worthy of mention that predated the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact by several years…. Read More ›
The Third Place: Historical Case Studies for the SSE (Pt. III of III)
1968 should be remembered as a significant year in the development of Student Economy and Student Government, at least in the Western world. It was around this year that the various movements related to the Counterculture were fast approaching their… Read More ›
The Third Place: On “Council States” and “Corporate States”
In The Third Place (1st Ed.) as well as The Work-Standard (2nd Ed.), every Entry is written from the position that the nation adopting the Work-Standard is not a “Corporate State.” Unlike the Council State, which represents the political system… Read More ›
Conservative Socialism: On Cold War-era Latin America in “China: Mao’s Legacy”
In the latter half of the Second World War, the “Cold War,” Latin America bore witness to proxy wars, civil wars, and revolutions by the Jeffersonians and the Soviets, who sought to gain influence among the continent’s nations. All notions… Read More ›
Reflections on Yugoslav-Italian Diplomacy in “Ostalgie”
Earlier this evening, I recently finished a few amazing playthroughs of Yugoslavia in Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall, an outstanding geopolitical strategy game developed by the Russian indie gaming cooperative Kremlingames. In the “Disorder in Yugoslavia” DLC, the player gets to… Read More ›
“‘Council State’ or ‘Corporate State?'”
Anyone who reads The Fourth Estate will know that I tend to republish comments responding to monthly posts on the ARPLAN Blog. While my Blog is more focused on post-1945 discussions of Political Science and the fields which intersect with… Read More ›
Update (10 July 2022)
Keeping with the idea of having each week be dedicated to a particular theme in mind, I am currently thinking about whether I should devote this week to a specific theme in mind or two. Both will no doubt be… Read More ›
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