Can Europe unify without repeating empire and breakup cycles? Is the euro a trap without a shared budget, and could real-time AI planning replace markets? I sit down with Captain Ivo Yotsov, professor at the Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy, to map six failed unifications and a choice for Europe.

Links:

Ivo Yotsov ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0300-9417

Ivo Yotsov on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivo-Yotsov

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:02 Liberal institutionalism vs realism

00:03:09 Six unifications from 800 to Napoleon

00:12:41 German order and the eurozone trap

00:20:00 Yugoslavia and the center-periphery split

00:24:19 Borders shift and the escape problem

00:26:01 Fourth theory and real-time planned economy

00:33:10 Direct democracy and system control

00:38:56 Museum Europe or reindustrialized Europe