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The Rawalpindi Conspiracy was a plot by Pakistani Major-General Akbar Khan and other left-wing officers to overthrow the first Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan in 1951. The plot was revealed to the authorities and the plotters were arrested, but what if that hadn't occurred? There...

I like this, but I think rather than 'Slovenia/Slowenien', it would be labelled 'Carinthia/Karnten'.

Although I'm not an expert on Early Modern history, it seems pretty apparent that France was consistently a great power in Europe (and globally) from the Renaissance onwards. As shown by the Revolutionary Wars, France was in many ways the 18th century equivalent of what Germany would become in...

I am quite a bit weaker on late Qing history compared to early, but there's these: Self-strengthening movement: I don't know much about it, to be honest, and there's not a lot dedicated to just the movement, but it might be worth a look at John King Fairbank's Trade and Diplomacy on the China...

Never read it (only partially read most of the ones I suggested before), but the author of this is the author of The Manchu Way, so it's probably a pretty good read. It will definitely be pretty accurate.

Fortunately, there's actually been massive growth in English-language scholarship in Qing history in recent years, largely due to the emergence of the "New Qing history" school, which tends to characterise the Qing not as a typical "conquest dynasty" like the Jin or Yuan, nor as a completely...

I really think race will be the least important consideration for whether or not to oppose Japanese imperialism.

Actually, whether Serbia was pro-Austrian or pro-Russian was dependent on whether the Karadjordjevic or Obrenovic dynasty was in power. At the time of the Russo-Turkish War, Milan I Obrenovic was on the throne. He was strongly pro-Austrian throughout his reign. As it was, Serbia strongly...

That country was a steppe state anyway. It may have exacted tribute from some of the Ruthenian principalities, but it didn't conquer them. You can't possibly think the Cumans could have conquered China if they had turned East?

Wait a minute, so you're seriously telling me that a bunch of backwards, pelt-wearing tribals in the steppes of inner Asia are going to be able to topple the Chinese empires (Jin and Sung), the Choson, the Khwarezmian Empire, the Seljuks and the Rus principates? And then mount successful...

After WWI, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was formed as a means to unite South Slavs. What if, instead of independent Polish and Czechoslovak states, there was a single state established for West Slavs, Zapadnoslavia? How would such a state develop politically? Would the Poles or Czechs dominate...

Personally, I feel like there's such a thing as "over-parallelling". But to give you a hand, I think these are better analogues: Indonesia as a stand-in for North Vietnam; Bolivia as a parallel for Afghanistan; France as a replacement for China.

The underlying ideology of the 68ers is still very present ITTL, but is being actively suppressed by a more aggressively reactionary state apparatus. The whole point of supporting the Nouvelle Droite was to try to provide legitimacy amongst the intelligentsia and displace the dominance of the...

The seizure of power by the French junta was a pivotal moment in European politics. The bullet holes which pocked the surface of the Arc du Triomphe in the immediate aftermath of Red Monday symbolised an assault on liberal democracy in Paris, the city which had been the cradle of the French...

I was under the impression that Hua Guofeng was pursuing normalisation talks with the Soviets, or at least, his foreign policy apparatus was.

I think the big issue here is having Elam strong enough to conquer Persia and fend off Mesopotamians, but not strong enough to conquer Mesopotamia. After all, why conquer Persia at this time if you can conquer the richer lands of Babylonia and Assyria?

That's almost 100% what the SFRY did.

Please correct me if I'm making some kind of error. I haven't looked into this issue specifically, so I'm open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

The reason I couldn't see the Australians do this is that it doesn't make any sense. In South Africa, apartheid had to be more elaborate in order to fracture resistance. If the Zulu are separated from the Xhosa, the Swazi, the Sotho etc, then they will be unable to collectively fight the...