War and peace
War and peace: political theory of armed conflict, deterrence, and ius ad bellum.
Political theory of war and peace has its references in Thucydides, Machiavelli (Art of War), Hugo Grotius (De jure belli ac pacis, 1625), Kant (Perpetual Peace, 1795), Clausewitz (On War), Michael Walzer (Just and Unjust Wars, 1977). The 21st century with Russian invasion of Ukraine, Middle East conflicts, US-China tensions has revived the debate.
Articles on war and peace (3)
- Toward an Architecture of DemocracyFrom the machine for living to the machine for living together. As politics loses itself in immediacy, the true democratic pact breathes in the streets: a journey through the tensions between rigidity and spontaneity, and how public space defines our coexistence.
- Rightward Shift Driven by Fear of Decline: When Inequality Radicalizes PoliticsFear of downward mobility votes right. How wealth inequality and economic frustration shape current polling trends.
- Russia and Western DemocraciesTimeline of a hybrid war against the rule of law. A sequence of cases stretching from Euromaidan to the Baltics: how Moscow combines propaganda, energy pressure, cyber-attacks, espionage and opaque funding to erode democratic trust without necessarily declaring war.
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