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Civility Theory: Research - Analysis - Lerning together

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Anachronism nuclear weapons

After the use of nuclear weapons, no one could live in the affected area. A balance of terror also fails when actors wage wars below the nuclear threshold (as in Kashmir or Ukraine). However, nuclear weapons pose an existential threat to the parties involved, which leads to corresponding uncertainty – a lose/lose situation that can only be understood in terms of power logic and resolved only through two-dimensional coordination. For more on this, see Civility Theory.

The theoretical versions from 2025, 2023 and 2018 are freely available to you.

USA:

From Democracy to Kleptocracy

Donald Trump thinks and acts unilaterally (unilateralistically) according to the motto: Trump's America First. However, tariff increases impede global economic exchange and reduce overall economic productivity. Furthermore, economic unilateralism promotes general political and military unilateralism, thus increasing the potential for violence. Finally, Trump and his clique enrich themselves unbridled at the expense of the general public: thieves in power (kleptocracy).

Trump's kleptocracy should be openly discussed not only in the USA but also in the United Nations.

Equality

through quotas?

The idea that equality can only be achieved through fixed shares (quotas) of power or positions is not only prevalent in the women's movement – a view that can be justified as a counter-moment to a rigid power structure. Quotas, however, privilege the quota-based group and, within this group, especially those who represent it.

Equality prevails when all participants have equal rights and can effectively exercise them, such as the right to vote, indiscriminately guaranteed active and passive voting, equal voting power, and guaranteed opportunities to participate freely. See a discussion on this already conducted in 2018 in the book: Theory of Civil Modernity (click on the button below).