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The question that has to be asked is why would Latin America integrated in this way. European integration began as European nation-states sought to escape from disastrous zero-sum competitions, the movement first taking off after the First World War then starting to be implemented after the...

Latin America, though, has other options; South America, particularly, is arguably as closely tied to Europe as it is to North America. American hegemony is most notable in the Caribbean basin, especially in the smaller states there.

This Thursday while I was on a daytrip to Kitchener-Waterloo, I had the chance to see the compact City of Waterloo Museum. There is preserved a memory of the first and still most famous tech company of Kitchener-Waterloo, Blackberry. Blackberry did blossom. It did, eventually, go under as a...

I am willing to bet that, especially if there was a continued flow of Dutch migrants to the Cape and without complications from English, Cape Dutch would tend to follow European Dutch, at least officially and among whites. What of the Afrikaans spoken by the Cape Coloureds, though? Would it...

Feargus O'Sullivan at CityLab took a look at a new documentary, If New York Was Called Angouleme. What if the site of New York City was colonized by the French in the early 16th century, following on Verrazzano's visit? I am willing to bet that the effects of a French settlement of the Eastern...

For a modern POD, strengthening the ties between the Gulf and the Raj is possible. IIRC some Britons had the idea of making Mesopotamia, once taken from the Ottomans, into a settlement colony.