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How would a democratic system in which the Overton Window, by consensus, is officially restricted in its constitution, emerge. For example, a secularist overtonized state would explicitly bar any party which seeks to promote religious values, or has openly religious members in party from...

It seems that 1984's huge superstates were inspired by the empires/occupation zones of the various powers during WW2 and how fast they expanded: Is it plausible to get a 1984-like scenario where New Imperialism occurs and a WW2-scale conflict later occurs but both sides stalemate with most of...

Given the long-discussed [related to the Yangtze protectorate thread] but never TLed scenario of a Grand Scramble for China, what would the geopolitical and cultural impacts of there being multiple postcolonial Chinese [Han] states be? And also would the Diaspora assimilate to their countries...

IOTL globalization and immigration have resulted in the creation of fusion cuisines like Chinese-American, Italian-American and Indian-Chinese cuisine. What are some likely alternate cuisines?

Traditionally, creole languages were considered corrupted versions of their lexifiers and rarely written down, if only in the colonizer's orthography (Chinese Pidgin English and Papiamento). What could increase tolerance of creole languages?

In some timelines like Look to the West a lot more of local traditions and traditional institutions (like monarchy) are preserved. Of course OTL's (irreversible) globalization with say, English as the global language and the strength of transnational institutions is not inevitable, nor is the...

One argument for bipolarity (and unipolarity for that matter) is that a multipolar world would have a higher chance of nuclear war due to the higher number of nuclear powers. That aside, how would a "regional" nuclear war between 2 powers in such a world be fought and what would the effects of...

Which countries could have repeated the East Asian economic model of state-interventions that resulted in economic growth through a small number of consolidated zaibatsu-/chaebol- equivalents?

Apparently the British had interests in establishing a protectorate in the Yangtze to "protect" the region upriver of Shanghai under a native Han monarch. If China had underwent a crisis serious enough that partition actually became possible, and the Protectorate (揚子保護國 ) was proclaimed...

Given the large number of disparate archipelagoes and cultures across the Pacific Islands, it would be possible for a supra-national Pacific Federation to emerge as a reaction. The obstacles to such a Federation are as following: 1) The different colonial powers and the arrangements by which...