development

The Contemporary Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty in New Zealand and Beyond

This article advocates for moving beyond the binary framing of ‘Indigenous’ versus ‘settler’ populations to explore the deeper societal forces driving Indigenous struggles for sovereignty. Through the lens of devletist theory, it explores how historical injustices, cultural suppression, resource conflicts and systemic inequities shape Indigenous resistance and self-determination movements. Using the Māori experience in New...

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...

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...

Weakness in Politics: A Physical Approach

In philosophy, it is well established that weakness, at all levels, enables the emergence of cruelty. Not being able to defend oneself physically will lead a weak person to exaggerate her attacking response. Not being able to express thoughts and feelings properly will lead this person to shout, manipulate and deceive. Not being able to...

From Europe to Asia: The Global Shift of Power

Very recently, scholars, political professionals, economic actors and the general populations of big and mid-sized economies have observed a certain transition of power between nations and civilisations. Over the past 200 years, the Anglo-Franco-Germanic nations of Central Europe, including the neo-European nations on other continents, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States...

Artificial Intelligence in the Political Context

In the last two years, machine learning systems, more broadly known as artificial intelligence, have entered the realm of wider economic conduct and have partially been made available to the general consumer base. The main difference between artificial intelligence systems and classic computational processing is that those systems can perceive and interpret audio-visual content and...