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The Sufi Vatican That Has Not Yet Been Built: A White Paper on the Bektashi Sovereign State Project, the Divergence Between Tirana’s Design and the Order’s Preparations, and the Constitutional Questions Neither Party Has Answered

Posted on September 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

As of 11 September 2026 Executive Summary Two years after Albania’s prime minister announced at the United Nations that his government would transform the Bektashi World Headquarters in Tirana into a sovereign state, no enabling legislation has been enacted, no … Continue reading →

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The Long Bargain: Tlaxcala from Independent Polity to Mexican State

Posted on September 11, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction In the autumn of 1520, Hernán Cortés sent Charles V a long letter. In it he stopped his account of the march inland to describe a city he judged larger and stronger than Granada, with busier markets and more … Continue reading →

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Rocky’s Advantage: Interspecies Cooperation Under Existential Threat in Project Hail Mary, Tested Against the Historical Record

Posted on July 30, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. The Question and Why the Novel Is Worth Interrogating Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary (2021) is usually read as competence fiction: a problem-solving narrative in the tradition of The Martian, with the added charm of a nonhuman collaborator. But … Continue reading →

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Battles Decided Before They Were Fought: Bosworth, Sekigahara, and the Neglected Historiography of Pre-Battle Alignment

Posted on July 24, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Two battles occupy nearly identical positions in the national narratives of England and Japan. Bosworth Field (22 August 1485) is treated as the terminus of the Wars of the Roses and the founding moment of the Tudor century. Sekigahara … Continue reading →

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The Heap of Witness: Treaties, Boundaries, and the Land That Is the LORD’s

Posted on June 21, 2026 by nathanalbright

A sermon on the binding of oaths, the bounds of nations, and the difference between keeping a word and merely saying one. Brethren, there is a river in the south of this country called the Sarstoon, and along its banks … Continue reading →

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The Accidental Embassy: Porterville as the Lens Through Which Bravia Becomes Legible to the Outside World: A Study in the Disproportionate Civilizational Significance of an Ordinary Bravian Town

Posted on April 7, 2026 by nathanalbright

Department of Diplomatic and Cultural Studies Provincial College of Porterville, Year 3015 Abstract Porterville is, by any conventional measure of national importance, a modest town. It was founded by a dairy family, grew as a land route rather than a … Continue reading →

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The Art of Engagement at the Edge: The Conditions, Principles, and Practices That Make Bravian Foreign Relations Work: A White Paper on the Sources of Bravian Diplomatic Success with Neighboring Nations and the Forest Peoples

Posted on April 6, 2026 by nathanalbright

Department of Diplomatic and Political Studies Provincial College of Porterville, Year 3015 Abstract Bravia is a nation that, by every standard measure of geopolitical circumstance, should find foreign relations difficult. It is a refugee people of unusual cultural density and … Continue reading →

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Prolegomena on Unification Beyond Borders

Posted on March 24, 2026 by nathanalbright

Section 1: Definitions and Distinctions The study of political unification has long suffered from a conceptual promiscuity that undermines both comparative analysis and policy application. Terms such as unification, annexation, integration, and federation are deployed interchangeably in popular discourse and, … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Legal and Ethical Challenges of Orbital Warfare: Treaty Limitations, Weaponization, Debris Liability, and Sovereignty in the Space Domain

Posted on March 15, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The legal and ethical framework governing military activities in orbital space rests on a foundation built for an era whose strategic circumstances bear only partial resemblance to those of the present day. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 — … Continue reading →

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Orbital Deterrence and Escalation: Anti-Satellite Weapons, Debris, Nuclear Risk, and the Reversibility Problem

Posted on March 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The emergence of anti-satellite weapons as operational instruments of national military power has introduced a class of escalatory dynamics into contemporary strategic competition that existing deterrence frameworks are poorly equipped to manage. This paper argues that orbital deterrence — … Continue reading →

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