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  1. WI Yulia Tymoshenko won the 2010 Ukrainian Presidential Election?

    The question is what would have happened if Tymoshenko had won instead of Yanukovich? Tymoshenko in that candidate represented the pro-Orange Revolution, pro-western camp. But throughout Yuschenko's term she had quarreled with him, had nearly allied with Yanukovych in a "Grand Alliance," and...

  2. Peace terms after a 1916 Entente Victory?

    Adam Tooze in The Deluge, frames decision-making in Germany in 1917 and 1918 as resulting from the Entente's near victory in 1916 following the Brusilov Offensive, the Somme, and Romania's entry in the war. Not being an expert on military history, I'm not going to argue over the plausibility...

  3. AHC: Have "England" be an accepted term for the whole UK

    The use of "England" to mean the entire UK is common, though incorrect and frowned upon. Historically, it was fairly common in the 19th and early 20th centuries though, even though Scotland, Wales, and Ireland/N. Ireland were recognized as being separate. The challenge here is have "England"...

  4. Recent UK political history if "Remain" wins?

    Hopefully this is distant enough it doesn't count as current politics. But if Remain wins narrowly in June 2016 (say 51-49 or 52-48), what are the after effects in UK politics? (For the sake of argument, let's assume no ripple effects on US politics; Trump still wins, for example.) How long...

  5. WP: Would Saving Lehman Have Saved Us From the Great Recession?

    Interesting article gaming out the implications for the US, Europe, and China if Lehman had been bailed out in September 2018. The tl;dr, he imagines a less severe US recession, a smaller stimulus and paired down Dodd-Frank, but a sharper Eurozone crisis in 2010-11, a Grexit, and a smaller...

  6. WI Kamenev-led all-socialist government in revolutionary Russia?

    I'm currently reading Tony Brenton's Was Revolution Inevitable, a series of essays on possible counterfactuals around the Russian Revolution. In it, Orlando Figes speculates about the Congress of Soviets (October 25, 1917) leading to an all-socialist coalition government, something David T has...

  7. If there were a UK referendum on Maastricht?

    I don't know the full details of the Maastrict Rebellion, but could the rebel MPs have forced a referendum on the treaty? And how would a Maastricht referendum have played out in the UK? Would it have gone any better than the 2016 EU referendum? And what would the after-effects be? If Major...

  8. AHC: Tory PM Takes Britain into the Euro

    I may be completely wrong, but my read on this is that despite Blair's enthusiasm for the Euro, he always faced deep skepticism from within the Labour Party (not just Gordon Brown). Instead, with a POD of the 1980s, have a Tory Prime Minister take Britain into the Eurozone.

  9. WI Tories win a majority in 2010 (UK)?

    How different would things have gone had Cameron and the Conservatives won a small overall majority in 2010? First, would Cameron feel compelled to call a Brexit referendum during that term, or is still likely to be something he pledges for a second term? Without the Fixed Term Parliaments...

  10. AHC: Prime Minister Ed Balls

    Make Ed Balls the UK prime minister at present, with a POD of 2005. Any chance?

  11. Pacifism without World War II

    Pacifism was a major force in Western (and to a great degree, global) politics in in the interwar period, largely due to revulsion at the carnage of the First World War. Ironically, an even more terrible and destructive war, the Second World War, arguably contributed to making pacifism once...

  12. Gore wins and no Iraq War - effect on Global politics?

    Let's say that Gore wins in 2000. For the sake of argument, let's assume that 9-11 (or a similar event) still occurs. (I'm aware that it could arguably have been foiled, even if just through butterfly effects). Let's further say that Gore still orders a US military intervention in...

  13. Why did Wales retain a separate identity from England?

    Wales came under English rule fairly on, and legally speaking it was part of England for much of its history (since Henry VIII's reign, I believe). Why did it manage to retain a distinct identity as a separate "country," unlike other outlying regions of England such as the Southwest (except for...

  14. Hinckley Assassinates Carter in October 1980

    This is a morbid what-if, but what if Carter was shot and killed in October of 1980? John Hinckley, Jr., the would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan, had previously stalked Jimmy Carter and followed him to Nashville, TN and Dayton, OH. What if he shoots and hits? How does this impact the 1980...

  15. Why didn't the British annex any of their overseas colonies?

    Several European countries - France most prominently, but also the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Italy (during their dictatorships) - integrated at least some of their colonies directly into their polities. Examples include the French overseas departments; Ceuta, Melilla, and the Canaries...

  16. President John McCain, Democrat (2005-2009)?

    Although McCain has always denied it, many sources insist that he came close to leaving the Republican Party in the spring of 2001, declaring himself an independent, and caucusing with the Democrats. Many of his key political advisors, among them John Weaver and Marshall Whitmann, did in fact...

  17. A "lost" US state?

    Historically, there hasn't been any "former" US state, by which I mean a state which once existed, was officially recognized, had a government and congressional representation, but either was dissolved into another state or was lost to another country. What if there were? The first thought...

  18. Hillary and the Syria War

    In several discussions about Hillary Clinton being elected in '08, the most obvious difference that emerges between her administration and the OTL Obama one is on foreign policy. It's true that the differences between Obama and Hillary were exaggerated during the primary, and even on foreign...

  19. "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ulster"

    From Wikipedia... What if Attlee (or an alternative prime minister) had decided otherwise? What would be the diplomatic consequences and the affect on Anglo-Irish relations of the UK government more formally embracing the name "Ulster," and renaming the UK as such?

  20. AHC: Save Egypt's Revolution

    Egypt would likely have been something of a mess no matter what the outcome of the 2011 uprising. Still, it wasn't fated to end as ignominiously as it did. Morsi's election wasn't inevitable, nor was his ouster. (For that matter, I'd be remiss not to point out that the final chapter on the...
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