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The Second Evolution of the Iran–Israel–US Conflict: Island Occupation and Peace-Talk Scenarios and Outcomes

26 Mar 2026

A Critique of the Critique of Instrumental Reason in Dialectic of Enlightenment

20 Mar 2026

Why the Second Iran–US–Israel War Has Escalated and Its Possible Future Directions

6 Mar 2026

Against the Contingency of Necessity: Cracking Open the Hegelian Maze of Mediation in the Preface to The Phenomenology of Spirit

5 Mar 2026

Iran–US War, Round Two: What Each Actor is After, Scenarios and Outcomes

2 Mar 2026

Tehran’s Tiananmen Moment? A Postmortem on Iran Protests, Round Four

18 Jan 2026

The Iran Protests, Round 4: Likely Scenarios and Outcomes

9 Jan 2026

Who is Truly Modern? Hobbes’ and Machiavelli’s Views of Mediation

12 Dec 2025

The Third Option: A Canada-EU-UK Coalition for a Balanced Digital World Order

2 Dec 2025

The Machiavellian Loose Cannon, the First Philosophy of Radical Mediation

31 Oct 2025

Plato’s Neglect of the Philosopher-King of Power Politics

24 Oct 2025

The Empirical Tautology of Virtue in Aristotle’s Politics

10 Oct 2025

Marcuse’s Philosophy and Critical Theory: Another Instance of the Absence of a Philosophy of Praxis from the Frankfurt School

12 Sept 2025

The PKK and Disarmament: Between Peace and Pacification

12 Jul 2025

To be Less than an Actor, More than a Sufferer: On the Absence of a Radical Philosophy of Mediation in Arendt

27 Jun 2025

The Iran-Israel Escalation: A Likely Scenario and Outcome

14 Jun 2025

Periodising Multilateralism via the Absence of the Stateless from the Scholarship

22 May 2025

Toward a Concept of Economic Security in Security Studies

21 May 2025

Critical vs. Problem Solving Theory: An Old, Still Relevant, and Not-so-Relevant Dichotomy

20 May 2025

Toward a Folklore of the Left

1 May 2025

The Belt and Road Initiative Security Complex in the Middle East (MEBRISC) Through a Critical Security Studies Lens, Its Impact on the Syrian Kurds’ New Security Logic

3 Apr 2025

Still Multilateralism?

21 Nov 2024

Velvet Pages: Critiques, Reflections, & Other Writings

The Second Evolution of the Iran–Israel–US Conflict: Island Occupation and Peace-Talk Scenarios and Outcomes

A Critique of the Critique of Instrumental Reason in Dialectic of Enlightenment

Why the Second Iran–US–Israel War Has Escalated and Its Possible Future Directions

Against the Contingency of Necessity: Cracking Open the Hegelian Maze of Mediation in the Preface to The Phenomenology of Spirit

Iran–US War, Round Two: What Each Actor is After, Scenarios and Outcomes

Tehran’s Tiananmen Moment? A Postmortem on Iran Protests, Round Four

The Iran Protests, Round 4: Likely Scenarios and Outcomes

Who is Truly Modern? Hobbes’ and Machiavelli’s Views of Mediation

The Third Option: A Canada-EU-UK Coalition for a Balanced Digital World Order

The Machiavellian Loose Cannon, the First Philosophy of Radical Mediation

Plato’s Neglect of the Philosopher-King of Power Politics

The Empirical Tautology of Virtue in Aristotle’s Politics

Marcuse’s Philosophy and Critical Theory: Another Instance of the Absence of a Philosophy of Praxis from the Frankfurt School

The PKK and Disarmament: Between Peace and Pacification

To be Less than an Actor, More than a Sufferer: On the Absence of a Radical Philosophy of Mediation in Arendt

The Iran-Israel Escalation: A Likely Scenario and Outcome

Periodising Multilateralism via the Absence of the Stateless from the Scholarship

Toward a Concept of Economic Security in Security Studies

Critical vs. Problem Solving Theory: An Old, Still Relevant, and Not-so-Relevant Dichotomy

Toward a Folklore of the Left

The Belt and Road Initiative Security Complex in the Middle East (MEBRISC) Through a Critical Security Studies Lens, Its Impact on the Syrian Kurds’ New Security Logic

Still Multilateralism?

Polanyi’s The Great Transformation: A New and Familiar Study of Economic Cultures

Realism and Neorealism: Divergent Ontologies of Interstate Adversity