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  1. AHC: More equal world

    With a POD after 1945, reduce the divide between the "developed world" (Europe, Australia, United States, Canada, Gulf Arab states, Japan & developed East Asia) and the "developing world" (most of Asia, Africa and Latin America) to the maximum possible extent. This means significantly fewer...

  2. AHC: Prevent Post-WW1 Totalitarianism

    With a POD no earlier than the beginning of first world war, and preferably no earlier than the 1918 Armistice, prevent the post-war decline of liberal democracy and the rise of Nazism, Fascism and Communism. I've found this to be harder than it sounds. A less strenuous treaty of Versailles...

  3. AHC/WI: No Postmodernism

    I fully realize that "postmodernism" is vague and ill-defined, with multiple conflicting definitions. What I mean by postmodernism is the intellectual and cultural tradition of pessimism and cynicism towards modernity which emerged in the twentieth century and continues to influence large...

  4. AHC: European settler state in Asia

    Excluding Russian-controlled areas of Northern/Central Asia, and the state of Israel, devise a scenario in which European settlers become a majority or even a sizeable minority in an Asian colony. Given the large populations of Asia, this would obviously be very difficult and require some...

  5. Challenge: Better Decolonization of Africa?

    After France, Belgium, Britain, Portugal and Spain gave their colonies in Sub Saharan Africa independence, the new states usually descended into civil war, ethnic/tribal conflicts, came under the control of brutal/inept/corrupt dictators or remained under the control of a white minority (in the...

  6. Challenge: Better Decolonization of Africa?

    After France, Belgium, Britain, Portugal and Spain gave their colonies in Sub Saharan Africa independence, the new states usually descended into civil war, ethnic/tribal conflicts, came under the control of brutal/inept/corrupt dictators or remained under the control of a white minority (in the...

  7. More Radical American Revolution?

    The American Revolution is often seen favorably in comparison to the French revolution. The American revolution succeeded in establishing a constitutional republic with limited suffrage, a bill of rights and separation of church & state while France went through a reign of Terror followed by a...

  8. AHC: Surviving Secular Ottoman Empire

    Would it have been possible for the Ottoman Empire to survive to the present day with it's government largely secularizing, modernizing and reforming as a result of the Young Turk revolution? Remaining neutral in WW1 and then hanging on long enough for oil to be discovered in the late 1930s...

  9. WI/AHC: US Colonial Empire in Africa

    As we all know, the United States didn't have a colonial empire in Africa. Instead while European empires were looking south towards Africa, the US was looking west towards the pacific ocean, annexing several islands in the pacific ocean (most notably Hawaii and the Philippines). But what...

  10. WI: South America-Antarctica Land Bridge

    Let's imagine an alternate geological scenario in which tierra de fuego and the Antarctica peninsula are connected somehow (an Antarctic peninsula stretching further North, Tierra de Fuego stretching further South, both, a archipelagoes of large islands all close together and easily within reach...

  11. AHC: European Africa

    The challenge is to create a timeline in which Europeans and their descendants come to outnumber native Africans in as much of the African continent as possible resulting in a situation similar to OTL Americas, Australia, New Zealand, North Africa etc. This would be extremely difficult as...

  12. AHC/WI: Constitutional Ottoman Empire

    The Challenge is to successfully modernize and reform the Ottoman Empire into a constitutional monarchy and save the fractured empire from collapse and dissolution (such that it still exists today). Could the First Constitutional Period have been a success? Could the Young Ottomans have...

  13. WI: Israel annexed West Bank?

    What would have happened if, at some point following the 1967 Six Day War, a right-wing government in Israel had decided to extend Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank in the same way they had done to East Jerusalem & the Golan Heights? What would the result have been? The Israeli...

  14. AHC: Maximum Possible Westernization

    I suppose this might technically belong as a Pre-1900 thread as I'll allow PODs as early as 1885 but given the fact New Imperialism is primarily a 20th century phenomena I'll put the TL here. The Challenge is to expand "western" (European) culture, demographics, politics, religion & language...

  15. WI: Jordan Annexes West Bank, 1987

    Background from Wikipedia So what if Jordan actually does re-annex the West Bank in 1987? Egypt had already re-annexed the Sinai Peninsula a decade earlier in the Camp David Accord. With a peace treaty signed between Jordan, Israel and Egypt, might peace have been achieved? The Golan...

  16. AHC: Prevent 1960s/1970s Enviromentalism

    Find a way to prevent the mass emergence of the environmentalist movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Alternatively change the environmental movement to the point where it's Pro-Nuclear Power, Pro-Advanced Technology movement and not the neo-Malthusian verging on neo-luddite movement it largely...

  17. WI: Sodomy legalized in 1986?

    The Browers vs Hardwick decision in 1986 upheld the constitutionality of state anti-sodomy laws in a 5-4 decision. Justice Lewis F. Powell regretted joining the majority but thought the case of little importance to the time. Let's imagine he votes the other way. Sodomy is legalized in 1986...

  18. WI: Mohammed Morsi loses Election?

    Let's say Mohammed Morsi loses the Presidential Elections in Egypt in 2012. Although the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists won the 2011/2012 Parliamentary elections in Egypt overwhelmingly the Presidential elections were much closer. In the first round of elections Morsi came in first but...

  19. DBWI: Morsi elected President of Egypt

    What would Egypt look like if Mohammed Morsi had been elected President in 2012 instead of Ahmed Shafik?

  20. 2001: A Space Time Odyssey (Version 2)

    [Introduction] After many months of research, reworking, writting, editing and polishing, the revised, more realistic and plausible version of 2001: A Space Time Odyssey is finally here. I never could have done it without Michel Van as co-writter and the advice of many other veteran...
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