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  1. Geopolitical Consequences of Japanese Taiwan post-WW2

    First off: Yes, this is insanely unlikely, as demonstrated here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/could-japan-retain-taiwan-with-wwii-going-mostly-the-same.511050/ But lets just assume that some unlikely sequence of events takes place that results in Taiwan ending up as a part of...

  2. WI: Ghawar Field under Kuwaiti Jurisdiction?

    Borders in the Middle East were quite fluid - and, to a certain extent, they still are. So, as the Ottoman Empire collapsed, could the Kuwaitis have ended up with control of the region around the Ghawar field? Putting them, no the Saudis, in control of one of the best oil fields in the entire...

  3. 1914 with more Liberal European Monarchies

    Let us assume that, in the years leading up to 1914, the more autocratic of the major European monarchies (Russia most of all, but also Germany and Austria) all embrace constitutional reforms that result in monarchies that are much closer to the British model. They may not be quite as...

  4. Development of an Electrical Industrial Revolution

    Suppose that, during the 17th and 18th centuries, a series of breakthroughs are made in the study of electricity, accelerating that field of study such that, the first primitive electric generators - and with them, electric motors - have been built in the early 18th century. These devices...

  5. Viability of program to buy & emancipate slaves gradually in US?

    Apologies for the cumbersome title, but this thread I started yesterday in ASB got me to thinking. https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-southern-leaders-informed-they-will-lose.516669/ We have discussed various ways to end slavery in the US early plenty of times. When I was...

  6. Linguistic Development of Unified Western Romance Nations

    Lets assume that the crowns of the Spanish kingdoms and France end up united around the 15th-16th centuries. I know it wouldn't make sense for the politics, but I'm thinking something like Joanna of Castille marrying Charles VIII of France. The specifics don't matter, but the point is that, by...

  7. WI: Pan-American Zollverein

    I was doing a bit of research, and came across this little nugget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_International_Conference_of_American_States#Customs_Union As it happens, we had a discussion of a similar topic just last year...

  8. American Guyana

    I haven't posted a 'WI the US annexes so-and-so' thread in awhile, and I'm starting to get night sweats and it feels like there's ants crawling over my skin. So, what if the US were to annex Guyana? What would be the most likely scenario for this, and what would the results be? Its worth noting...

  9. US House of Representatives: combined election and sortition

    I’m a big fan of sortition - appointing govt officials by random lot - and like to see it incorporated in my timelines. The concept did not seem to have much of a draw on the American Founding Fathers, but they were certainly quite aware of it. Lets suppose it did wiggle its way into the...

  10. Catholic Church in Moderate French Revolution?

    Assume the French Revolution doesn’t go anywhere near as far as it did historically, and ultimately results in a Constitutional Monarchy. It may or may not still be far more radical and egalitarian than Britain, but society isn’t totally remade. This includes the extreme anti-clericalism of the...

  11. Road Less Traveled: WW1 negotiated peace in 1916/17

    Just wrapping up an interesting book by Philip Zelikow on how close WW1 came to ending in a negotiated peace of the sort that usually marked European wars in the 1916 and the very beginning of 1917, brokered by the US. Through a series of miscommunications, some likely accidental and some almost...

  12. WI: Zemstva-led Russia?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zemstvo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Russian_Zemstvo_Union (I’m not relying on wiki, just using it as a reference point) I’ve been having a blast with Mike Duncan’s Revolutions, as he plods through the Russian Revolution. And I keep coming back to this one...

  13. A federation within a confederation

    First off, I initially thought of this imagining some hybrid between a Three Seas Initiative and the Intermarium, for the FH forum. But as a general concept, I figure its better positioned in before 1900, particularly since one of the better examples of a Confederation turning into a Federation...

  14. Culturally and Politically Unified North European Plain?

    The Romans were able to politically unite the Mediterranean Basin, and across most of Europe under their control, even beyond said basin, their culture and language were predominant. Could anyone have done similar in Northern Europe at any point history? With the North and/or Baltic Seas...

  15. How much of China would the PRC need to eventually get their UN seat?

    With the entire Chinese mainland under their control, it took the PRC 22 years to be accepted as China, for the purposes of the UN and the permanent seat for China on the UNSC. So, if the PRC didn’t control all of the mainland, what would happen? Imagine, for example, that they were able to...

  16. American Settlement Patterns w/ Earlier Locomotives

    Assume a reasonably tight butterfly net (as in the broader sweep of history looks familiar) and that steam technology gets a kick start by about 20 years or so, and the American Transcontinental Railroad is finished about as early (so, instead of 1869, somewhere close to 1849). Of course, its...

  17. WI: Better Sahel Agriculture in Antiquity?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaï https://www.zef.de/fileadmin/webfiles/downloads/zefnews/No8-9-2001-engl.pdf In the past generation, there has been a bit of a revolution in the agricultural practices in marginal Sahel lands. There is a traditional agricultural technique called Zai, which is...

  18. American Economic Integration (US as Rome)

    This will hopefully be a fairly free wheeling discussion, inspired by my thoughts in a thread in the FH subforum that was pursuing the tried and true formula of the US as the new Rome. My position boiled down to this: if America is the new Rome, it needs its own Socii. There's no reason for them...

  19. South China Sea if US kept part of Philippines?

    Suppose the following: - We have a great butterfly net - While still granting the Philippines independence, the US formally sets a few islands aside to keep. If we’re being more modest, then something like Palawan, Mindoro, and/or their outlying smaller islands. If we’re indulging some 51st...

  20. The Great Stirrup Controversy

    Stirrups are a staple of AH, simply due to the fact that they seem so obvious in hindsight. Of course, like any good writing trope, they're usually overdone, but I didn't realize just how much until I saw that the debate over them actually has its own wikipedia page...
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