The chingasid model, or ideal type, was marked by the extreme centralization of power and authority in the person of the great khan. As with ganghis khan,Chingasid sovereigns did not share authority with any others. They claimed law making power above and beyond that of religious and other actors.
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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