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...

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...

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...

Fake Power

Over the last couple of months, the story around the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has become more and more dramatic. Most recently, thousands of people gathered all across Russia to protest against the jailing of Navalny. He was detained after returning from Germany, where he was hospitalised, due to a nerve agent poisoning. Although...

The Power of Feminism

When we encounter the concept of feminism, we associate a lot of different things with it. Often our feelings are influenced by our own gender – whether we are a woman or a man. But our perception of feminism more strongly tied to our ideology. Feminism has, in some way, become a social separation tool,...