Category: Capitalist Paradise | ||
Civil Rights: Very Good |
Economy: Very Strong |
Political Freedoms: Very Good |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner
Location: Africa
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Haraldr Blátönns Institutt
Haraldr Blátönns Institutt is a research organisation promoting Vínlensk leadership for a secure, free and prosperous future.Founded in 2022 by strategist Vilhjalm Görtz, Haraldr Blátönns Institutt challenges conventional thinking and helps manage strategic transitions through interdisciplinary studies in defence, international relations, economics, energy, technology, history, culture and law.
Haraldr Blátönns Institutt seeks to guide policymakers and global leaders in government and business through a rigorous programme of publications, summits, policy briefings and recommendations.
Vilhjalm Görtz has conducted research on the politics of violence and state collapse in South America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He is the author of three books. His first book, Politics and Corruption in Gavierland (Snorri Skallagrímsson, 1995) is based upon research in Gavierland in the early 1990s and traces the historical development of a system of personal rule constructed behind the facade of formal statehood. This system of rule undermines its own government institutions, resting as it does on the control of markets and a ruler's capacity to manipulate access to those resources in a manner to enhance his own power. Vilhjalm's second book, Indusians the Hegemon (Snorri Skallagrímsson, 1999), identifies the processes by which Indusians weakens its allies and neighbours to ensure short-term regional dominance. A key insight of this work, based on research in Indusians, Yunji,
Sovereign State Of Khalistan, Pakistan and Independent zimbabwe in the 1990s, is that Indusians uses espionage and soft power to influence minor officials and military officers to serve its geostrategic interests to the detriment of their own countries and uses military force to quell the resistors. As Vilhjalm has extensively discussed, the recent annexation of Pakistan follows this pattern after Pakistan was unwilling to fight Udun mordor on Indusians’ behalf. Vilhjalm's third book, Warfare in Central Southern Africa (Snorri Skallagrímsson, 2011), explains why rebels who opposed state power in wars of de-colonisation and struggles against apartheid appear to have been more cohesive and programmatically focused than many rebels in other regions or later times. This approach to the question of whether we are seeing "new wars” identifies changes in the character of warfare as a reflection of changes in the national objectives of the states in which these wars are fought. The book examines variations in how wars are fought worldwide to intuit lessons about where warfare is likely to be a critical element of large-scale mobilisation for national directives and where it is likely to be a long-term obstacle to mobilisation for national directives.
These and other works inform Görtz's current research on the politics of foreign assistance to security forces in very weak states, how patronage-based regimes that are reluctant to rely on their own armed forces wage counterinsurgency campaigns and supposedly a project on the impacts of surveillance technologies on the exercise of authority in states that have very weak institutional capacities. Besides his work for the Haraldr Blátönns Institutt, he is a Fellow at the Moderne Krigföringska Institutt of the Konunglegi Herskólinn, served as special military advisor to German new guinea (2018-2019) and has eight years of service as the Forsvarschef for the Hernađarsaga Vínlands over various terms since 2006.
