This “void at the center” is the psychoanalytic key – the system is built not to deny or fill a foundational lack, but to contain it, to structure meaning around it. The Civilization of the Spectacle ...

They are each built on one of three paradigms that has dominated international relations theory since World War II: realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Realists see politics as rooted in anarchy, ...

Australia has been, and continues to be, remarkably resilient. But the fragile machinery of democracy needs some long overdue ...

A few weeks ago, writing on the library that is Professor Desmond Mallikarachchi, I recounted a conversation that took place more than twenty five years ago at the end of a thesis defence. My last ...

As New York City's mayor's race enters its final stretch, there are echoes and contrasts to another famously bitter city election in 1977. Andrew Cuomo, a college student, was advising ...

Haiti has long endured a great degree of social and political instability, which has culminated in an acute security crisis characterized by failing governance after the 2021 assassination of ...

A subtle form of control hides in everyday helplessness: when one person overfunctions and another withdraws, leaving ...

Mahmood Mamdani, one of Africa’s most decorated intellectuals, has spent a career turning violence into sociology. In his ...

Helen Andrews's "Great Feminization" theory suggests women attained positions of influence and then ruined institutions by being themselves.