MHMiriam Haas6 Sept 2026
MixedCollective provision is under-supplied for the usual reasons, but the single-guarantor arrangement is failing on its own terms: the guarantor is now rationing the good it claims to provide universally.
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Freedom of navigation through global choke points is a commons that no single navy should be asked to guarantee.
MHMiriam HaasRaised 5 Sept 2026
Sustained disruption at two major straits has pushed insurance and routing costs into the broader price level. The arrangement that kept the sea lanes open was never treaty-based; it was a single power absorbing the cost and the discretion together.
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A commons guaranteed by one actor is reliable but not legitimate; a commons guaranteed collectively is legitimate but chronically under-provided.
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Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson · 2012
Places inclusive versus extractive political institutions, rather than geography or culture, at the centre of long-run prosperity.