The Middle Class As Essential Driver For Lasting Political Change
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 setting of the European allies arise, but also general debates about the international law are held, emotional narratives on the methods of both parties shape...
Iran’s Leverage: Will Russia and China Actively Join the Israel-Iran War?
The most recent developments between the Islamic Republic of Iran (hereinafter: Iran) and the State of Israel, opposing each other in a territorial war, are the next step in their escalating geopolitical situation. While the primary root causes of this conflict have been addressed in several of our analyses (e.g., Israel and Iran: Behind Political...
How the Permanent Bureaucracy Influences the Political Socialisation in Germany
Political alienation describes a relationship between a citizenry and its political system characterised by profound distance and a lack of perceived self-efficacy. Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba (1963) categorise this mode as a Subject Political Culture: a state wherein individuals possess a general understanding of political structures but feel devoid of formative power. Consequently, their...
WEF’s Davos Summit 2026
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 triggers a debate on the compatibility of elite gatherings aimed at societal transformation with democratic principles of governance. While some voices specifically target contradictions inherent in the...
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 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...
