Analysis

Problems in Political Discourse

Politics is a matter that is of interest to everyone because our lives are directly affected by it. The way politics and its outcomes are structured determines the accessibility, effectiveness and efficiency of genuine knowledge production, which is ultimately the goal of our being. Therefore, it is natural that politics is a topic of popular...

Human Nature and Development

With the proliferation of wealth and social globalisation through media, the concept of motivation has developed into a core feature of popular discourse. This certainly has led to the concept being very prominent in the context of individual people’s lives and their self-fulfillment. In essence, motivation formerly described a goal-driven attitude towards taking action. Today,...

The Truth and Consumption

Our minds can do a lot of wonderful things. Among them is treating existential questions through the exploration of logical chains. It is not the primary aim to find answers to those questions immediately, but rather solidly identifying the cognitive paths that can lead us there, as well as establishing patterns of thought that can...

Purpose: The Main Tool of Manipulation

Receiving compliments is a good feeling known to each of us. It makes us feel worthy, providing us with a tangible experience with the abstract question of why we live. The more the compliment is directed towards what we personally think we are good at or want to be good at, the more satisfaction we...

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,...

Capitalism in the International Political Order

Do we receive different performance results when economic systems are embedded in different international political settings? What can be expected from different combinations of those two structural realms? More specifically, how is the capitalist economic mode affected in a multipolar international political state structure? The analysis of political systems, including economic systems, does strongly benefit...