In March 2026, a group of Australian authors published Secession by Western Australia, a provocative work that does not merely speculate on independence, but lays out a detailed constitutional, legal, and economic blueprint for a new sovereign state. Grounded in historical grievances and contemporary political tensions within the Australian federation, the book reflects a broader reality: in liberal democratic contexts, the idea of secession remains a legitimate subject of public debate and academic inquiry. This raises a more difficult question when considered beyond such contexts. If secession can be openly theorised and even advocated in places like Western Australia, what does this reveal about other territories with contested political trajectories?

What a great idea - building Hong Kong like new cities in the UK. Published by the Institute of Economic Affairs, Vera Kichanova shares her brilliant and inspiring idea proposing to set up new cities like Hong Kong in the UK. As she suggests, the UK has done a successful Hong Kong in Asia, why not do that in its own soil and bring the UK forward with economic prosperity and a new form of governance.

How can a struggling country break out of poverty if it's trapped in a system of bad rules? Economist Paul Romer unveils a bold idea: "charter cities," city-scale administrative zones governed by a coalition of nations.

As the political landscape in Hong Kong shifts, many residents are looking to migrate to Western countries. This creates immigration problems, especially as some Hong Kongers won’t meet the requirements needed to move to cities with established Hong Kong expat communities. Today’s guest, Ivan Ko, is the founder and CEO of the Victoria Harbour Group, an organization with the bold idea to create international charter cities in Western countries for Hong Kong immigrants to move to.n goes here

Theodore Herzl was the first Jew who projected the Jewish question as an international problem. "The Jewish State," written fifty years ago, was the first public expression, in a modern language, by a modern Jew, of a dynamic conception of how the solution of the problem could be accelerated and the ancient Jewish hope, slumbering in Jewish memory for two thousand years, could be fulfilled.

The Charter City Study, conducted by Victoria Harbor Group in January 2021, looks at the origin of Charter City, explores the International Charter City concept proposed by economist Paul Romer, and lays out how VHG would pursue the project further.

Description goes hereThe Model City Charter has exerted enormous influence over the structuring of municipal governance for more than a century. Published in 2003, the eighth edition recommends the ―council-manager structure of municipal government first proposed in the 1915 model. It has become the most widely used governmental structure in American cities with a population over 10,000.

Relationship Building, Network Cities, and Leveraging Competitive Advantage with Mark Lutter

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