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Looking for historical analogs to test whether a proposed future scenario has precedent.
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historical analysis
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...empire. So just for game theory. Just for, for some basic historical analysis, um, you can make certain projections, but what I cannot do..."
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Jiang proposes two ways to substantiate the Iran trap model: historical analogs and game theory analysis of rational actor incentives.
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"...or provide evidence that this is true. Okay? The first is historical analysis. Historical analysis means that are there historical examples like this? Okay?..."
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"All right? So, we'll first do historical analysis to find historical analogs, examples, sort of similar to this. And then we'll look at game..."
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"...empire. So just for game theory. Just for, for some basic historical analysis, um, you can make certain projections, but what I cannot do..."
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"...have some legitimacy. Now, when I teach, I don't engage in historical analysis. I engage in speculative analysis. And so in 2024, two years..."
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"...I want to talk today is about a new model of historical analysis. How can we understand the movement of history. Why do people..."
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"...is this clear to you guys? Okay? You can either use historical analysis to get to this outcome, but you can also use game..."
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: the Iran war that looks like American domination is the moment the United States becomes trapped, because geography, supply, domestic politics, sunk cost, and nuclear deterrence...
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