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An exploration of those institutions that seem to be able to endure through civilizational collapse with Foresight's Research Fellow in Political Science, Samo Burja.

Societies and civilizations decline and fall long before most expect them to. We can identify at least 12 distinct Dark Ages only in our recorded history. When civilizations fall, they usually take almost all of the institutions that buttressed them down too. Yet, some individual institutions manage not only to survive one societal collapse, but multiple ones, and even prosper throughout centuries of historical change and upheaval that decimated the societies around them. Three categories of long-lived institutions are particularly interesting for those seeking to preserve or advance knowledge: monasteries, universities, and libraries.

Samo Burja is Foresight’s Senior Research Fellow in Political Science and the Founder and President of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm based in San Francisco that specializes in institutional analysis for clients in North America and Europe. Bismarck uses the foundational sociological research that Samo and his team have conducted over the past decade to deliver unique insights to clients about institutional design and strategy.

Samo’s studies focus on the social and material technologies that provide the foundation for healthy human societies, with an eye to engineering and restoring the structures that produce functional institutions. He has authored articles and papers on his findings. His manuscript, Great Founder Theory, is available online. Samo has spoken about his findings at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Y Combinator’s YC 120 conference, the Reboot American Innovation conference in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. He spends most of his time in California and his native Slovenia.

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