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This article analyzes the contemporary revival of Carl Schmitt’s political theory within US technolibertarian circles and examines its implications for political order during Donald Trump’s second presidential term. It argues that Schmittian...
The study of war causation is one of the central and most contested fields in political science and international relations. This article provides a systematic overview of classical theoretical paradigms – realism, power transition theory,...
This article argues, against the backdrop of the historical development of weapons technology and warfare, that humanity has pushed the relationship between destructive effect and self-risk to both its maximum and its minimum limits: on the one hand...
This study examines how domestic fragmentation of American security policy structurally can increase the probability of succession wars. The transformation of the United States from a regional hegemon to a potential hegemon – driven by relative...
Never again is now? In light of the wave of anti-Semitism on the streets, in schools and universities, this text diagnoses a failure of political education and attributes this to the blind spots of a democracy education primarily focused on German...