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Lyceum Mundi is a publication on economics, geopolitics, and the structural forces reshaping the international order.

The post-1945 international order is undergoing reorganization. Most commentary on world events operates at the timescale of news cycles, but the forces that actually shape the present — monetary systems, imperial transitions, demographic curves, institutional decay — move on timescales of decades and centuries. Lyceum Mundi is an attempt to read the surface by attending to the substrate, with a working assumption that geopolitics is downstream of economics and economics is downstream of plumbing: capital flows, energy, supply chains, monetary architecture.

The publication is organized into three sections.

Foundations are the slowly-built reference layer — the concepts, institutions, and historical episodes that the rest of the writing draws on. These are written when a specific analysis needs them, not speculatively.

Analyses are shorter, more frequent pieces on specific contemporary events, read through the structural and historical lens above.

The methodological commitments are: primary sources where possible, historical context as a default rather than an exception, minimal deference to received Western framings of non-Western actors, and a willingness to say "we don't know yet" where the evidence doesn't support a confident claim.

Lyceum Mundi is written from a student vantage and treats its readers as future peers. New posts arrive by email — subscribe below.