The Long Game — Why Some Governments Endure. Monday’s Edition

Why Some Governments Endure. Series 20 #1

Throughout recorded history, we see empires, nations, and governments rise and fall. They collapse under invasion, civil war, or when people stop believing in them. Most governments that have ever existed are gone, replaced, dismantled, or simply abandoned.

But a handful of governments have endured. Not surviving for decades, or even centuries, but for …