Western intervention has been justified for decades on the premise that removing a bad regime creates room for a good one. A study of seventy twentieth-century regime changes found targets ended up no more likely to reach consolidated democracy than comparable states left alone — and identified exactly which conditions decide it.
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Political ScienceFebruary 28, 202611 min readEvergreen
'How much of success is luck' is unanswerable as posed. 'How much is explained by circumstances nobody chose' is a regression, and it has been run. Country of residence alone accounts for nearly three-quarters of the variation in individual incomes across the world.
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Political ScienceFeaturedFebruary 16, 202620 min read
This post analyzes international migration from the Global South, particularly India, to Western nations, revealing a shift from human capital transfer to an "Extraction Economy." It details financial, labor, and political extraction mechanisms where migrants are treated as resource sites.
