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Essentials|30 Aug 2026|Society
Social interaction overload describes a condition in which the volume of mediated communication a person receives exceeds the capacity to process it, and in which the obligations attached to a large n
Essentials|23 Aug 2026|Political Science
Few terms carry the weight of genocide. It names what is widely regarded as the gravest crime in international law, and its application to a set of events changes how those events are understood, reme
Essentials|16 Aug 2026|Economy
A free trade agreement (hereinafter: FTA) is a treaty between two or more parties that reduces or removes barriers to commerce between them while leaving each party free to set its own trade policy to
Analysis|09 Aug 2026|Political Science
Many companies failed, families fell apart and many more examples of failed human organisations can be found throughout history, but also on an everyday basis.
Essentials|02 Aug 2026|Economy
The industrial revolution refers to the transformation of production, work and social organisation that began in Great Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century and spread over the followin
Essentials|26 Jul 2026|Political Science
Realism and liberalism are the two theoretical traditions that have shaped the academic study of international relations more than any others. Each offers an account of why states behave as they do, w
Essentials|19 Jul 2026|Political Science
The expression of a specific psychological structure, one that becomes more visible the more unstable the world around us grows. Fromm called it the authoritarian character.
Analysis|12 Jul 2026|Foreign Policy
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (hereinafter: the NATO) Summit held in Ankara on 7-8 July 2026 projected institutional confidence. Allied leaders reaffirmed their commitment to Article 5, annou
Analysis|05 Jul 2026|Society
The core discipline of sociology emerged through its engagement with the social problems that surfaced in modernity. Not because prior social formations were closer to some ideal, but because human be
Originals|28 Jun 2026|Political Science
In this article, we are examining the global society life cycle and how the current societal decline is to be understood in this context.
Analysis|21 Jun 2026|Domestic Politics
The cultural revolution was a political movement in the People's Republic of China that lasted, by the official reckoning later adopted by the Chinese state, from 1966 until 1976. Its full name in the
Essentials|14 Jun 2026|Society
International law is the body of rules and principles that governs the conduct of states and, increasingly, of international organisations and individuals in their relations with one another. Unlike t
Analysis|07 Jun 2026|Foreign Policy
Does the elected office belong to the individual officeholder, to the party that nominated them or to the voters?
Essentials|31 May 2026|Foreign Policy
This article explains the origins of game theory, sets out its central concepts and surveys the ways in which it has been applied to the study of political life.
Essentials|24 May 2026|Society
On 2 December 1823, President James Monroe delivered his seventh annual message to the Congress of the United States of America (hereinafter USA). Buried within a long routine address — much of it con
Analysis|17 May 2026|Political Science
In this analysis, we examine the common concept of the Fear of Missing Out (hereinafter: FOMO).
Analysis|10 May 2026|Political Science
Karl Marx remains one of the most significant philosophers of the 19th century, exerting an influence that continues to shape the global political landscape, particularly through his critiques of soci
Analysis|03 May 2026|Society
The idea of communism is now a little less than 200 years old, and since then, it has had a remarkable history. It is one of the fastest proliferated ideologies in political history. More interestingl
Analysis|26 Apr 2026|Economy
Societal behaviour is shaped by the structures that limit and incentivise behaviour; this is one of the cornerstones of our political approach. However, structures are neither static nor did they aris
Analysis|19 Apr 2026|Society
The ongoing war fought against Iran through the United States of America (hereinafter: USA) and Israel arise several crucial question that do not merely centre around geopolitical strategy and goal se
