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Nationcraft

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

Nationcraft·36 min

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

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·47 min

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

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·52 min

Ethiopia's 18-variable Nationcraft profile after the June 1 election: why the 2019 Nobel labelled Abiy with a reformer…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·40 min

Peru's 18-variable Nationcraft profile on the eve of the June 7 runoff: why eight presidents in ten years…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·39 min

The Compressed-Trust Paradox: why Lawrence Wong's Economic Strategy Review is the live-fire stress test of the LKY Industrialization…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·34 min

Two decades of gas dividend built the political compact Bolivia now cannot reform. A Nationcraft V-vector reading of…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·32 min

Pakistan merged its Board of Investment into the army-anchored SIFC in May 2026. A Nationcraft 18-variable read of…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·40 min

Taiwan scores elite on sixteen of eighteen Nation Variables and 3/10 on V12 Geopolitical Leverage — the Silicon…

Yu-kai Chou

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Nationcraft diagnoses South Korea's 2026 V-vector and names the Post-Martial Trap — why Park-era playbooks no longer fit,…

Yu-kai Chou