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Nationcraft

Analyzing a nation and the best way to improve it via Yu-kai Chou's Nationcraft Framework.

Nationcraft·29 min

France owns every asset of a top-tier state and a parliament too fragmented to use them. A Nationcraft…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·27 min

Serbia's Managed Exit Trap: why an election forced by 18 months of protest may hand power back to…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·26 min

Madagascar refounds its republic after every crisis and stays poor. A Nationcraft read of the 2025 Gen Z…

Yu-kai Chou

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Chile elected a mano dura president while homicides fell three years running. The Mano Dura Mirage: a Nationcraft…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·26 min

Kenya's Concession Trap: a Nationcraft diagnosis of why a post-tribal Gen Z uprising keeps winning concessions yet never…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·26 min

Syria's Hollow Sovereignty Trap: post-Assad recognition and reconstruction cash arrive faster than the institutions that could absorb them.…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·26 min

Lebanon's Power-Sharing Trap: the confessional system that built the Paris of the Middle East now freezes reform. A…

Yu-kai Chou

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Kosovo's third snap election in 18 months reproduced the same coalition arithmetic. Nationcraft diagnoses the V10-V12-V13 Coalition Stalemate…

Yu-kai Chou

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Sri Lanka passed every IMF review on schedule, and that is exactly why the next external shock could…

Yu-kai Chou