Postmodernism, as a philosophical, socio-political and cultural movement, emerged in the 1970s as a critique of, and counter to, the Modernist Universalism that had remained dominant in Western societies since the 19th century.

Having been developed by a number of…

In the context of the modern system of sovereign states, political realism, as a school of thought, has served as the dominant framework for understanding statecraft and strategy. Classical realists such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Hans Morgenthau…

Over the last few years, there have been a number of high-profile mass shootings in the United States, most of which have been committed by white men. In an attempt to make sense of such shootings, the Western media…