In the chingasin model, extreme centralization of political authority was intimately linked with the notion of universal sovereignty. And then chingasit empires, also managed succession. Succession through tanistry, a way of handling cession that is different from the primogeniture model more common in european monarchies. In tanistry members of the ruling house are all eligible to inherit, but there is no established order of secession.
Ayşe Zarakol on her book Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. How centuries of Asian empires from Genghis Khan to Timur and the early Ming Dynasty through the Ottomans and Mughals built dominant world orders and, ultimately, shaped the rise of Europe—and how that all might shape how we think about the crisis in the world order today.
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