I think moral censorship has a hugely detrimental influence. Its dimension is such an underlying pinpoint crawled in each of our society and makes some feel hurt and others may have at least some levels of impacts. The reason that makes us feel moral difficult to be censored is the universal good for all. It cannotContinueContinue reading “Commentary: Moral Censorship & Human’s Reluctant Future Development”
Category Archives: International Relations
Global Internet Governance & Democracy
Internet governance (IG) is the need to make sure that every part can work together in the digital space. Since the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) had lasting effects in building peace of global governance and upheld a crucial step in the development of tolerance and secularization across world politics. However, in the digital world inContinueContinue reading “Global Internet Governance & Democracy”
The rights agenda to self-determination – Counterproductive Western imposition to Third World nations
Commentary: The ‘rights agenda’ is a Western imposition and counterproductive to self-determination for most developing countries. The place of ‘rights’ in fostering development, including for those are most disadvantaged, either groups or individuals; particularly in developing countries and communities. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs The world of development has never become more delighted than this eraContinueContinue reading “The rights agenda to self-determination – Counterproductive Western imposition to Third World nations”
Social media magnified political polarization in the U.S
Divided democracy in the age of the Internet perhaps is a fact. Platforms such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon are the “Big Five” who are controlling people’s data across the world. Behind them, behind the politicians in relation with the people, what unites us all to look to a prosperous future for humanContinueContinue reading “Social media magnified political polarization in the U.S”
Trumpism – the political culmination of 60 years’ U.S Republican Party
… as a discussion The election of the 45th United States President in 2016 – Donald J. Trump and his best-known motto “Make America Great Again”, along with outright stricter standards on immigration policies during his candidacy in 2015. This is an inciting political tension, which sweeps the values of hundred years building the nationContinueContinue reading “Trumpism – the political culmination of 60 years’ U.S Republican Party”
Key words: US 2016 Presidential Election, US 2020 Presidential Election, micro-targeting, modern political campaigns, databases, digital media firms, Facebook, Russian meddling, Cambridge Analytica, human rights, democracy, clash of civilization —————————————————————————————————————— The networked modern technology of micro-targeting purportedly employed in the 2016 US Presidential Election had entailed the win of the Republican candidate – Donald J.ContinueContinue reading
The US and/behind the Iran-Saudi rivalry
(On the religious, ideological, and political roots of the Iran-Saudi rivalry.) The struggle of power has been 40 years following the fall of the Shah in January 1979. It along came by Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian revolution to achieve his political ascendancy with a vast majority of the peoples’ support. However, Saikal (2003) affirmedContinueContinue reading “The US and/behind the Iran-Saudi rivalry”
Realism – Where is America seated in the school of IR since 1945?
Intellectual roots of our modern thinking have been turbulent changes in order to adapt to the contemporary world, especially the special relationship between historical events and different schools of the political theories. Modern history from the twentieth century to our current decade of the twenty-first century since the World War I (1914-1918) to the WorldContinueContinue reading “Realism – Where is America seated in the school of IR since 1945?”
Một Vành Đai, Một Con Đường – One Belt, One Road Initiative?
Commentary: What the world out there is something or many things that abide at our unknown tails. Are you able to guess it peace or not peace? Pakistan’s new highway, Kazakhstan’s new rail terminal, Sri Lanka’s recently opened seaport, or Laos’ new bridge are belonging to a one country’s project, which spans three continentsContinueContinue reading “Một Vành Đai, Một Con Đường – One Belt, One Road Initiative?”
Why Forgotten War?
Commentary: An investigation targeted on the Korean War during the escalation of the U.S and China conflicts in 1951, thus to reflect on the U.S Foreign Relations. More than 60 years have passed since the end of the Korean War during the period of 1950-1953. Historians call it the Forgotten War. While it develops questionsContinueContinue reading “Why Forgotten War?”
The Digerati Politics 