The explanation to this phenomenon is due to the model of governance applied by populist governments. This model of governance encompasses four interconnected elements that, when they coincide, highlight a solid mass of voters voting for populists’ leaders. But what are the elements of the populist model of governance? 1. It requires the presence of
The problems now facing the planet, in addition to being interconnected between them, are several times the complication of the problems and their nature (e.g. Covid-19 pandemic) which make it compulsory to cooperate if not of the whole but of most of the planet. So, just as the problems and their resolution need global cooperation,
The dynamics created by the Mers-CoV or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus epidemic in China give us an idea of what a state like China can do that uses artificial intelligence technology for mass and individual control respectively of citizens and how the movements of Chinese citizens are emerging a wave of popular discomfort in
No one can dispute the fact that the extermination of the most powerful and charismatic major general of Iran (Qassem Suleimani) has enabled the United States to achieve a very powerful blow in peacetime in Iran. The US message to Iran and in general to all kinds of challengers of US sovereignty in both the
The USA and the UK or the UK and the USA for at least three centuries and always through the historical continuity between Pax Britannica and Pax Americana (after the end of the Second World War (WWII) and so far,) had succeeded in making an international order to their own measures. But the current governments
The end of the Cold War (1991), with the collapse of the Soviet Union (USSR) at the time, constituted a global evolution by changing the course of history indicating for the first time since the end of the Second World War that the absolute but yet unique system of values and institutions on the planet
In Hong-Kong from June until today, China’s patience is being tested by radicalised activists, not daring the Chinese government to implement methods of suppressing mass population. In Iraq for almost a month the country’s youth is on the streets protesting angry over the inadequacy of the rulers, corruption and lack of perspective having killed 150
The adoption of two contradictory positions and the inability to get meaning due to the adoption of these two contradictory positions gives the definition of absurdity. In politics, however, absurdity is a useful tool that enables the politician who uses it (the absurd politician) to get the power of almost complete freedom of movement. The
When he was 29 years old, Justin Trudeau was invited to a school costume party that had the theme of the “Thousand and One Nights” one of the most popular in the Western world works of Arabic literature. For the needs of disguise and to be as successful as possible in his metamorphosis was forced
The selection of the new President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to attribute the title “Protecting Our European Way of Life” to one of the portfolios of the new Commission, created and continues to create tensions in the EU institutions. When the Commission President herself was asked to justify her choice on