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Venice's Playbook: City-States, Confederacies, and Modern Autonomy
What if the future of governance looks less like a single flag and more like Renaissance Italy — a patchwork of mini-states, each with its own courts, currency, and army, loosely stitched together under a confederacy? This episode unpacks how the Italian city-state model actually worked, from Venice's extraordinary quasi-sovereign power to the Lombard League's defeat of an emperor. Then we examine modern proposals for confederal solutions in deeply divided societies: tribe-based arrangements in the Middle East, the Dayton Accords in Bosnia, and the recurring debate about formal Haredi…
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