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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
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.
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
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
Essentials|01 Mar 2026|Foreign Policy
Wars are a part of politics. Surely, everybody wants to avoid them and the suffering that comes with them, but why cannot states stop waging wars? Very simply put, a war always emerges when a state pe
Essentials|01 Feb 2026|Economy
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (hereinafter: WEF) in Davos not only provokes contradictory emotional reactions, depending on the political position one holds, but also periodically tri
Essentials|04 Jan 2026|Foreign Policy
There will be new developments in 2026, but we also expect changes in existing dynamics that will continue to unfold in the fresh year of 2026.
Essentials|28 Dec 2025|Society
The year 2025 comes to an end, and every political newspaper and organisation that summarises this year cannot stress enough how special, challenging or somehow otherwise extraordinary 2025 was – like
Essentials|07 Dec 2025|Foreign Policy
“May it not be true, as has been well said, that ‘the belief in democracy presupposes belief in things higher than democracy’?” — F. A. von Hayek Usually, we associate certain ideas with the term demo
Essentials|30 Nov 2025|Foreign Policy
It is one of the core features of contemporary democracies: the political party. They are organisations centred around a main theme, which their members believe is the best approach to politics altoge
Essentials|23 Nov 2025|Economy
The Belt and Road Initiative, conceived by China in 2013, is far more than a conventional infrastructure programme.
Essentials|19 Mar 2025|Society
The text discusses the nature of change and disruption within societal, economic and political structures. It emphasises adaptability as key to effectively navigate disruptions, driven mainly by technological advancements. The analysis concludes that genuine knowledge production…
Essentials|12 Nov 2024|Political Science
Thinking politically is not fundamentally different than entertaining productive thoughts in other realms of life. The main difference is that politics is the arena where the methods and results of al
