Interesting topic for a final paper. One thing I thought of while I was reading this article is that picking a country / time period that actually has an authoritarian regime actually works against you because even if you try to come up with an original one, it will be heavily influenced by what actually happened because of similar circumstances. Perhaps this is why Cold War was not as popular? When I tried to imagine an authoritarian regime rising in the Philippines in an alternate history in which Ramon Magsaysay didn't die in a plane crash, it just turned into the Ferdinand Marcos regime... with less shoes.
More positivity a fascinating exercise in counter factual history from my standpoint. I would find it challenging to attempt because l lack imagination. This gets drilled out of me by historical understandings of any period that l know reasonably well. Without Napoleon l just get straight (without all that messy 15 years of Napoleonic battlefield genius) to the restoration of the Bourbons via foreign powers intervention. I need a military capable leader to defeat opponents to the first republic, who are mainly monarchists, to allow my (new type) authoritarian regime to emerge. So lots of admiration for the students who tackled this challenge.
Interesting topic for a final paper. One thing I thought of while I was reading this article is that picking a country / time period that actually has an authoritarian regime actually works against you because even if you try to come up with an original one, it will be heavily influenced by what actually happened because of similar circumstances. Perhaps this is why Cold War was not as popular? When I tried to imagine an authoritarian regime rising in the Philippines in an alternate history in which Ramon Magsaysay didn't die in a plane crash, it just turned into the Ferdinand Marcos regime... with less shoes.
More positivity a fascinating exercise in counter factual history from my standpoint. I would find it challenging to attempt because l lack imagination. This gets drilled out of me by historical understandings of any period that l know reasonably well. Without Napoleon l just get straight (without all that messy 15 years of Napoleonic battlefield genius) to the restoration of the Bourbons via foreign powers intervention. I need a military capable leader to defeat opponents to the first republic, who are mainly monarchists, to allow my (new type) authoritarian regime to emerge. So lots of admiration for the students who tackled this challenge.
Hopefully not a vocational course for wannabe dictators.
This sounds like a really fun project.
Interesting … I’m going to have to take a shot at it