Un-Diplomatic

Un-Diplomatic

Gen Z Revolution Versus All National Security States

There are signs of a Gen Z-led world transformation, but they’re coming from the Periphery of the world-system, not the imperial Core.

Un-Diplomatic
Sep 15, 2025
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A protester carrying a Nepalese flag hangs a pirate flag on an ornate gate, as smoke and flames rise from a palace building in the background.

Sometime last month, Nepali youth started circulating memes on TikTok and Instagram of “nepo babies”—a double-barreled critique of the incompetence and corruption of its not-meaningfully-democratic ruling regime. Inequality had been visibly bad for years, and getting worse. Your most likely path to Gucci slides and swimming pools was to be a politician,…

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