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With the upcoming referendum in the UK on EU membership, some attention has been turned to the fact that Gibraltar will also be voting for it is also in the EU despite being an overseas territory. Some have suggested this may pave the way for Gibraltar to eventually gain representation at...

I always like to think that an ATL China where the KMT won the civil war would look alarmingly like OTL China today, and I'm curious whether it is really plausible. So, I'm not particularly expert about the fine details of the civil war, but let us assume that by the early 1950s the KMT has...

What if that came to happen? That early in his reign, Edward VIII is disabused of the idea of marrying Wallis and instead is persuaded/induced to find an "acceptable" wife. They are married in early 1937, preempting Prince Paul of Greece who she married in OTL. She is largely attributed for...

Ok, okay, so there was a dictator of the made up "Equatorial African Federation" of Gabon, Congo-Brazza, CAR, Cameroon, and Chad, from 1960 until his sudden death in 1982... in 1972 he invited the Asians of Uganda to come to the country, an ally of France and the West. He learns from the...

London, or Toronto, New York, or any other thing. A city, transcending county boundaries, with a single government across its metropolitan region. How could such a thing come about in the US?

I posted this is ASB but it didn't get much of a response there.... So, in short, what if Park Chung-Hee was a kleptocrat with no economic cares whatsoever and Mobutu a mildly corrupt developmentalist strictarian? What would happen? Could the Congo (let's assume it still ends up being called...

Well, I was wondering that it had been allowed to do so without much object, but it seems surprising that the "Western powers" or someone didn't try to get rid of it on the pretense it wasn't the Soviet union, challenge the idea it could be the "successor" to the Soviet Union. So can it be...

So I was wondering about some sort of SS-dominated Nazi Germany in the case of a continental victory, where it's completely subsumed the Ordungpolizei and is well on its way to absorbing the Wehrmacht and turning the entire country into some oversized version of the SS-state of Burgundy. So we...

Hungarian Regent Miklos Horthy spent most of the later half of his rule attempting to prevent Hungary from falling either to Soviet-backed communists or Nazi-backed fascists. Unfortunately, I think we can say, he eventually failed in that goal, and Hungary eventually fell to both nations. For...

Well, I should give this time line thing another go. I promise I’ve done my reading in advance this time. The "Great Civilisation" is what the Shah termed his overall goal for Iran, we shall see what shall really become of it... The Great Civilisation Is Just Around The Corner Asadollah...

I'm trying to envision what flags for the remaining communist states might look like if they ceased to be communist. Usually, the post-communist states just adopted pre-Communist symbols, but it seems in most examples that the pre-communist symbols are politically loaded (China, Vietnam) or...

What possibility is there of South Africa hammering out an racial-confessionalist style agreement in the 1980s or 1990s? I understand this is something that the NP was bargaining for in CODESA but by that time they'd lost most of their ground? What sort of conditions would need to exist for such...

Something I've wondered is that if Edward VIII worded his abdication so that renounced the British Royal throne but not the Indian Imperial one. What happens next. Is he held at gun point and forced to renounce the Indian throne as well? Does he take the Crown of India and head on a steamer to...

Here's a little side project. It spans 1790-present, so I'm not sure where to put it... A dynasty for the ages – The Burgess Family of New York For a dynasty that has seen over two centuries of political, economic, and social prominence, the criticism levied against the Burgess family...

Jacques Chirac ran for president in 1981, and lost, his refusal to fully endorse Valery Giscard d'Estaing largely leading to the latter's defeat to Francois Mitterand. He'd run again in 1995 and win, leaving office in 2007. What if we combined those two- Chirac wins in 1981 and leaves in 2007? :D

WHERE THE CURTAIN IS YET TO FALL Communist Albania After the Death of Enver Hoxha 1985-2012 © Oxford University Press, 2012 Communism, in the 21st century, is all but dead. The plethora of states that once declared it their aspirant state of being have on the whole either faded into the pages...

The 1960 referendum to abolish the monarchy in South Africa was a fairly close run thing- what if it had gone the other way? How could we have more ex-British colonies keep QEII as their monarch? Some countries, like Sierra Leone, hesitated for up to a decade on that matter. Can we keep...

In the late 19th century, the Far Eastern Russian region of Chukotka saw a great deal of American involvement, with traders buying up a great deal of land, opening up businesses, in relation to the Yukon gold rush. The Russian authorities tried to put a stop to such involvement, with only...

The former Edward VIII died in exile in 1972 estranged, disliked, and childless. But what if he hadn't- at least the not the latter? We do not know whether one or both of them had any "problems" preventing the couple from having children, and in any case Wallis was in her forties by the time...