“A harmless man is not a good man. A very good man is a dangerous man who has it under voluntary control” I work with diplomats. The objective towards achieving diplomacy is the ability to see things from points of view other than your own and finding reason, common interest, perspectives, clarity and truth inContinue reading “OWN YOUR MIND – CHANGE THE WORLD”
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HEGEL ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – IS THE WEST DOOMED TO WALK ALONE?
This piece is based off an article written by Tomáš Korda, where he directs his theories on the question: “Is the West doomed to walk alone?” on the realist and progressive philosophical views of Hegel. As a ethics philosopher myself and a student counsellor and administrator for our IR courses here in Geneva, I feelContinue reading “HEGEL ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – IS THE WEST DOOMED TO WALK ALONE?”
ICELAND – TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN THE EU
What does a country gain when it joins an international organisation — and what might it have to give up? A referendum taking place in Iceland offers an unusually clear window into one of the oldest and most important questions in International Relations: how much sovereignty should a state be willing to share in order toContinue reading “ICELAND – TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN THE EU”
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