Game of Thrones season 8 episode 1, explained by political science

"So who is it most likely to be?

To try to answer that question, I consulted science — specifically, political science. The subfield of international relations has spent decades accumulating knowledge on what causes different countries to rise and fall, to succeed at getting what they want or to fail miserably. A lot of this work applies just as well to Westeros, with a little bit of tweaking, as it does to Earth"

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