Czechia’s Populist Return: Babiš, Coalition Hardliners and the European Union Friction Map

In December 2025, Czech politics entered a new phase of populist incumbency as President Petr Pavel appointed Andrej Babiš Prime Minister, returning the right-wing party ANO to power after four years in opposition. The October election outcome matters less as a routine alternation than as a governing reconfiguration: Babiš’ parliamentary arithmetic ties cabinet survival to...

The USA-Venezuela War: Our Final Mistake Before Enlightenment?

Over the past weeks, the United States of America (hereinafter: USA) has conducted a large-scale military build-up in front of the Venezuelan coast. Just a few days ago, the North Americans attacked and captured a Venezuelan ship, signalling their willingness to further intensify attacks on Venezuela. We predict that the USA will start a war...

What is Democracy?

“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 democracy immediately. On the other hand, however, the term’s technical definition remains the subject of intense debate within the scholarly...

The Political Party: Democracy’s Biggest Enemy

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 altogether. As the core democratic idea proposes, a population has many different interests that intersect at a common point, the general will. Coined by...

The Belt and Road Initiative 

One of the very core developments in today’s economic and geopolitical reality is the continuously growing influence and expansion of the People’s Republic of China, on several critical markets, resources and infrastructure, which constitutes its most essential pillar in international power relations. Power is here to be defined according to Max Weber’s assumption to proceed...

Iran, Iraq and Libya: What Happens When Nations Pursue Their National Interests?

Among the most disturbing video footage of recent political history, the murders of Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein surely rank quite high. While the videos were presented to the global public as the end of illegitimate political rules at that time, we today question the narrative around the murders of the former leaders of Iraq...