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Jiang's recurring model for rival city-states competing over trade while producing innovation.
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open cooperative competition
Jiang's recurring model for rival city-states competing over trade while producing innovation.
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Jiang’s three-part mechanism for innovation: openness to learning, cooperation through contact, and competition to improve.
Glossary
A city-state dynamic where surrounding pressure forces innovation, tolerance, education, and disciplined unity.
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Fragmented parts of a civilization fight and imitate one another, producing innovation through rivalry.
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Open cooperative competition means openness to learning, cooperation through contact and shared practices, and competition to improve; Jiang treats it as the mechanism that makes city-state systems innovative.
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Jiang says Prussia became both creative and militarily successful because geographic vulnerability forced open cooperative competition, unity, education, and human-capital development.
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Open cooperative competition is Jiang's term for fractured societies whose internal rivalry produces innovation in military, society, philosophy, and literature.
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Open cooperative competition among warring Italian city-states makes people participants in history rather than detached bureaucratic observers, forcing theory to remain relevant to political and military reality.
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Open cooperative competition is Jiang's general model for civilizational innovation: openness prevents central closure, cooperation circulates ideas, and competition forces invention.
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"...control trade okay and this leads to what we call open cooperative competition and these are 여기는 and as i keep on saying this..."
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"...then what happens is that these city states. Are now in competition with each other. And they have a system of competition called open..."
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"Open, cooperation, competition. You'll be very innovative. Open just means that you want to learn. You want to grow. You want to learn from..."
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"...the three major ones that Moscow and Prussia share is open cooperative competition. They're surrounded by enemies, and they're forced to be innovative, open,..."
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"...And there were thousands and thousands of them that were in competition with each other."
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"Over time, because of competition from the more powerful states like France, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Sweden, these city -states were now forced to gel..."
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"The concept we use for this in our class is open cooperative competition. This is the main driver of innovation in the world. When..."
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"...fact that in Italy, you had many different city -states in competition with each other. And as we discussed in many classes before, when..."
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"...warring city -states, okay? And as a result, they're always in competition with each other, they're always at war with each other. And as..."
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"is that because these city -states were always at war with each other, everyone was a participant in history. Remember, if you are in..."
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"...schools of thought developed because of a process we call open cooperative Competition which as we have discussed is the main driver of innovation..."
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"...what happens is the empire becomes the opposite of an open cooperative competition system. Why? Well first of all it becomes insular. Okay? Then..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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