Overcoming Agenda-Setting Power in Politics

One of the more subtle techniques of exercising power is the agenda-setting power. It is the determination of focal points, which can be applied to many different scenarios, such as political discussions, educational curricula, news coverage and public contracting. Simultaneously, it constitutes a limitation of potential options in each scenario. When there are only a...

The Sovereignty of Governments

“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” – Voltaire Analysing political realities through the lenses of their theoretical frameworks can be useful to evaluate not only the underlying structures but the current implementation of these principles in political decision-making. In this analysis we are going to explore the philosophical ideas of...

The Collapse of Arabia. Why Sub-Anatolia Failed and How It Can Recover

With the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, fleeing the lands he and his family governed for almost 50 years, Syria is now a failed state in the definitional sense. Although being dysfunctional for most of the past century, the collapse of the Syrian government is another case in a series of failed states in Sub-Anatolian...

Fundamental Rules of Political Thinking

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 all aspects flow into consideration with the aim to produce societally beneficial outcomes in the sense of genuine knowledge production. Further, the downside risk of...

How to Stop Israel

The best way to make somebody do something is to create structures that lead this person, organisation or state to do it. Obviously, there is always the possibility of making use of our free will and acting virtuously without having the structural setting to do so. However, the overwhelming majority of people are not capable...

Towards an Ideal State: The People

Philosophical ideologies shape the political landscape where people organise themselves in societal structures. Those ideologies, once rooted in what was believed to be inherent, divinely-given rules of conduct that governed only basic behaviour, evolved into concrete laws regulating the smallest details in every realm of modern societies. The process of selecting behavioural rules can be...