The Importance of Culture in Statecraft

Culture, as defined in Devlet, is “a set of social interactions within an ethnic group”. While other definitions tend to focus on parts of those social interactions and, more often even, the results from those interactions, the devletist definition also encompasses behavioural patterns at the micro and macro levels. Rather than centralising culture around language,...

Knowledge and Race

Why does the media use language to side with Israel in the currently re-intensifying conflict with Palestine? Why was the media so invested in the Ukraine conflict and completely ignored the Russian side of the story in its narrative? Why is the white world quick to label acts of violence of non-white people as terrorist...

White Democracies Are Fake

Probably all of us have heard conspiracy theories about elitist circles that control the political power within one or maybe even more countries. A central aspect of those theories is that the politicians are appointed by leaders in the background, rather than being elected by the citizens. So, there is this conception that the citizens...

Black Lives Matter

Over the past couple of months, the civil population of the United States of America (short: USA) experienced a series of large-scale protests against racism towards black people in that country. Triggered by the murder of several black people by the police, the protests were quickly organised under the label Black Lives Matter and this...