Personal Milieux and Public Structure

In short, there are structural formations which lie behind global epiphenomena such as the Cold War and East-West relations. And as a result of structure and its complexity, it can leave many people feeling trapped and helpless, given that it takes a lot to understand and grasp all of the complexity. It takes both boldness and strength … Continue reading Personal Milieux and Public Structure →

The Universal Standpoint

If doctrine is everything, and doctrine is then derived from method, and method comes down to psychology, then psychology itself combines consciousness, experience, and knowledge into a “richness of relations” which need to be examined and studied, to borrow from Dewey. But what is more important than the origin of these relations is the manner … Continue reading The Universal Standpoint →

The Neoliberal Consensus

“Anyone who believes it is possible to acquire comprehensive knowledge enabling him to control events has no knowledge, but only a pretense of knowledge.” That is the neoliberal worldview in a nutshell, namely, a mere pretense of knowledge. However, the neoliberal lacks the knowledge of the “totality” while needing to know the “rules” to “maintain … Continue reading The Neoliberal Consensus →

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

And as mentioned before, the main beneficiaries of the basic change or shift in the global balance of power are none other than Donald Trump, Russia, and China. The decline or the diminution of liberalism as a global “epistemological regime” has led to the rise of new actors and powers in the international system. For … Continue reading A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing →

The Dilemma of American Security

The balance of power also undermines conventional thinking in terms of how the Western capitalist model of what is none other than extraction and exclusion renders the West superior over all others. The fact of the matter is that the East can also develop without having to resort to the Western capitalist model of extraction … Continue reading The Dilemma of American Security →