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The Role of the Military Today

It is undeniable that the military’s reputation as an institution is severely damaged in many parts of today’s world; especially, in Western countries. While once young men dreamt about a career as a soldier, in order to live the ideal of the brave and glorious saviour of the nation, today fewer and fewer people aspire...

Why Do We Love/Hate Communism?

For some, the word communism carries a bad connotation in both political and social terms. Beginning from critique on Karl Marx, over to failed states like the Soviet Union, to the countless dictators, who were responsible for millions of deaths, communists are viewed as aggressive, radical, closed-minded and, therefore, repulsive. For some, however, communism is...

How to Spot a Great Politician in 5 Easy Steps

We have contact with them on a daily basis, they are all over the news and they affect our lives greatly, yet they are also somehow very distant to the ordinary citizen: politicians. What they do and how they do it puzzles us. It seems like their behaviour is challenging the norms that rule our...

Unipolarity vs Bipolarity vs Multipolarity

When we use a computer, a smartphone or a tablet, which we do on a daily basis, we as laymen tend to forget that we only interact with the surface of a very complex device – there are millions of things going on in the background, which we cannot see. Similarly, when dealing with political...