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Social Interaction Overload and Political Participation
The Concept of Genocide: Definition, Debate and Application
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, remembered and acted upon. That weight is also the source of persistent difficulty: a term that determines legal liability, shapes political...
The Free Trade Agreement: How It Functions and What It Does
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 towards everyone else. Several hundred such agreements are now in force, and the great majority of world commerce takes place between...
The Fragile Human: Why It Is So Difficult To Maintain Stable Human Organisation.
Political scientists, historians and also laymen interested in these fields have been puzzled as to why so many great civilisations rose to glory but also vanished just as often. When we look at the past years of our own times, whenever this might have been, we found history to be quite linear, or, at least,...
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Japan’s Political Economy in Q3, 2026
Japan’s political economy is contending with a convergence of pressures in the second half of 2026: record-high fiscal demands, a sovereign bond market under strain not seen in three decades, persistently weak household consumption and a diplomatic balancing act between Washington and Beijing. Each of these dynamics is unfolding simultaneously, and together they define the […]
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USA Secures Majority Control Of Venezuela’s Oil
The United States of America (hereinafter: USA) announced on 29 August 2026 that they had entered a Venezuela oil “deal” granting majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of the South American nation’s proven petroleum reserves. The agreement, described by USA officials as structured through a partnership...
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SCO Summit Bishkek: Xi, Putin and Modi to Meet
The leaders of China, Russia and India are scheduled to attend the SCO summit Bishkek gathering on 31 August and 1 September, as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (hereinafter: SCO) marks the 25th anniversary of its founding. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister...
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Essydo Essentials
See all Essydo EssentialsThe Concept of Genocide: Definition, Debate and Application
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, remembered and acted upon. That weight is also the source of persistent difficulty: a...
Emre Şentürk
The Free Trade Agreement: How It Functions and What It Does
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 towards everyone else. Several hundred such agreements are now in force, and the great...
Emre Şentürk
Social Interaction Overload and Political Participation
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 network of contacts become a source of strain rather than connection. Applied to politics, the term carries a further proposition: that saturation of this […]
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Essydo Originals
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This Time It Is Different: Civilisational Life Cycles, Societal Decline And Renewal
Humans are historically arrogant. The present, to us, is the most precious and important time, driven by interests, which, in turn, are based on our immediate needs. “Especially, these days…” is the motto of how we look at our times of living, thinking that today is the time where something has been the most, least, […]
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The Power of Language: Essydo’s Hierarchy of Language
Every word is of the highest importance; regardless of whether it is written, spoken or thought. Language is one of the most powerful elements of our being, arguably even the most powerful of all. Language shapes our world as it is just as much the structure as the...
Emre Şentürk
The Death of Consumption
How much more can we buy? How much more content can we consume? How many more concerts and events can we visit? How many more vacations can we go on? Even though the quality and variety of products and services declined, with the deepening of globalisation and capitalism,...
Emre Şentürk
Philosophy
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The Fragile Human: Why It Is So Difficult To Maintain Stable Human Organisation.
Political scientists, historians and also laymen interested in these fields have been puzzled as to why so many great civilisations rose to glory but also vanished just as often. When we look at the past years of our own times, whenever this might have been, we found history to be quite linear, or, at least, […]
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The Authoritarian Character
There is a pattern that keeps resurfacing across the political and cultural landscape of European and Neo-European societies, one that is difficult to name but impossible to ignore. The same individuals who express fierce admiration for strongmen and self-made millionaires and billionaires tend to reserve an equally fierce...
Rene Lapuse
This Time It Is Different: Civilisational Life Cycles, Societal Decline And Renewal
Humans are historically arrogant. The present, to us, is the most precious and important time, driven by interests, which, in turn, are based on our immediate needs. “Especially, these days…” is the motto of how we look at our times of living, thinking that today is the time...
Emre Şentürk
Politics
See all PoliticsJoshua Wong Guilty Plea in Second Security Case
Joshua Wong Guilty Plea Entered In Hong Kong Court Joshua Wong Chi-fung, one of Hong Kong’s most internationally recognised political activists, entered a guilty plea on 2 September 2026 to a charge of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security. The hearing took place in...
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Social Interaction Overload and Political Participation
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 network of contacts become a source of strain rather than connection. Applied to politics, the term carries...
Emre Şentürk
Iceland EU Referendum Rejects Accession Talks
Iceland’s EU referendum, held on 30 August 2026, produced a No vote, with the No camp securing approximately 52,8% of ballots against 47,2% for Yes, according to final results reported by The Guardian. The outcome blocks a government proposal to reopen accession negotiations with the European Union (hereinafter: EU) — talks that were suspended in 2013 […]
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Society
See all SocietyIceland EU Referendum Rejects Accession Talks
Iceland’s EU referendum, held on 30 August 2026, produced a No vote, with the No camp securing approximately 52,8% of ballots against 47,2% for Yes, according to final results reported by The Guardian. The outcome blocks a government proposal to reopen accession negotiations with the European Union (hereinafter: EU) — talks that were suspended in 2013 […]
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Social Interaction Overload and Political Participation
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 network of contacts become a source of strain rather than connection. Applied to politics, the term carries...
Emre Şentürk
Nepal Floods Kill Hundreds, Over 1.300 Still Missing
Flash floods and mudslides triggered by a glacial collapse on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China’s Tibet region have killed at least 273 people across both states and left more than 1.300 individuals missing, according to figures compiled by rescue authorities and reported by multiple outlets as...
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