Second Empire Building: Free Zones, Sovereign Corporations, and the Architecture of Post-Democratic Power Something is being built in the gaps between nation-states, in the deregulated corridors of Freeports, Special Economic Zones, and AI Growth Zones in the luxury resort renders circulating for a not-yet-rebuilt Gaza, in the investment frameworks being quietly drafted for a post-war Iran that has not yet happened. It is being built by people who have contempt for democracy, contempt for the rule of law, and open disdain for anyone without capital, people who have written candidly, in their own literature, about what they intend to replace both with. The silence around it is not ignorance. It is the sound of the architecture going up. Please read, share, and subscribe to my Substack open.substack.com/pub/europeanpo…
