More: Politics
China: The Democracy Question
China is not a democracy; at least not in the sense to which our western sensibility is acclimated. Starting in the 1980s (the period...
Politics and Policy: Connecting the dots in the U.S. system
W hat is 'politics' a Senator's quip went ... 'Poli' he said means many in Greek, and 'tics' are bloodsucking parasites. It drew...
Turkey’s Future at Stake
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could soon find himself with a raft of sweeping powers as his party pushes for a far-reaching law...
The Dutch election, Trump’s guests and tedium
E very so often the laws of nature appear to reverse, as when cold air is trapped on the earth's surface in a...
Τhe European challenge: unity, return to growth and the social pillar
T he White Paper presented by the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker a couple of weeks ago is proof of embarrassment...
What Justice cannot see – spectacularization, publicity and coercion in times of Carwash
As it has been extensively discussed lately, Brazil has developed a fresh (and arguable) political conscience in the past years. People have been to...
Xi Jinping’s future China
T he fifth session of the National People's Congress and the Fifth Session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political...
Donald Trump Needs To Pull A “Ronald Reagan” And Start Firing All Disloyalists
T hings are getting progressively worse for the Donald Trump Administration as it seems that the Obama/Bush/Clinton/Bush Sr holdovers of the past 28...
Beware of Walls: A brief history of Mexican migration into the U.S.
W ith all the focus on a wall to (in a way) quarantine Mexico and President Trump's notorious disinclination to read, one wonders...
Culture as a binding factor in our society- interview with Camilla Habsburg-Lothringen
W e need culture to know where we came from, says her Imperial and Royal Highness Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany...