A Dutch version of this article you can find here. It is imperative that national governments formulate a national strategy as soon as possible to tackle the corona virus pandemic […]
European Union
The State: R.I.P.?
Where does the state – as an organizational structure – actually come from? The state did not exist a couple of hundreds of years ago. It should be reminded – […]
THIS IS A WAR CYCLE
This is a schematic representation of a war cycle. During the period 1480-1945, the European State-System produced four accelerating war cycles. Together they constitute a dissipative structure. This dissipative structure […]
Near criticality: The worrying state of the international system
The (International) System is in a worrying state, as I explain in this article. My research shows that the System produces war-cycles, with remarkable regularity, and that each war-cycle has […]
From a Directed to a Centrifugal Force
The upscaling of the (State-)System from a core/non-core to a globalized State-System, respectively regulated by the 1st and 2nd (global) FTA, was accompanied by a dramatic shift in the force […]
