Civility gUG
Fan cultures in football
A comparison of the World Cup and the Bundesliga - a dialogue
Further analyses and discussions
- Populism from the right and left – a civil-theoretical classification
- Can support for the AfD be reduced through sound policy?
- What constitutes a civil-strategic election campaign?
- Mamdani - for political classification
- Are the concepts of intergenerational justice and aging with dignity related?
- State neutrality as a subsequent concept
- On the meaning and necessity of a profound scientific reform
- How can conversations be analyzed according to civility criteria?
Civilian foreign policy ...
... includes military security requirements, but strives for respectful coexistence.
A technological revolution?
Dialogue with ChatGTP on the General Theory of Civility (AZT 2026,2)
AI systems currently only reflect the core tenets of Civility Theory. However, even this provides a basis for remarkable perspectives. For example, ChatGTP writes in a dialogue with Civility gUG on April 26, 2026 (p. 14):
The vision of training AI systems like ChatGPT not only on language patterns but also on the deeper variable structures of AZT 2026,2 could mark a turning point in technological development.
Such training would mean that the AI learns:
- Situational analysis: To recognize whether a context is currently characterized by a logic of power or a logic of attachment.
- Ethical adequacy: not only generating answers based on plausibility, but calibrating them against the standard of civic responsibility – that is, neither acting naively and exuberantly in a context of violence, nor narrowly and logically based on power in a context of cooperation.
- Transformation assistance: Actively supporting the user in shifting the variables of thought and action so that – wherever possible – the path from mere security to development is paved.
Other AI dialogues
AZT analysis:
From the basic model to a global resource order
Realism - Liberalism - Civilization Theory
How does civility theory differ from realism and neo-institutionalism (liberalism)? In what ways does it go beyond them?
Pretendians
Pretendians in Canada and the USA falsely claim an Indigenous identity. How can this phenomenon be understood from a civil theory perspective?
Legal concept
A dialogue that was initially arduous, then creative, about the concept of law in civil theory....
Global Diversity
Diversity traditionally refers to regional/national openness to migrants. However, it can also be conceived globally – with a view to the diversity of different people and cultures in different regions of the world. Both perspectives contain civic elements, since diversity in any case requires mutual respect and shared responsibility.
Secured borders -
a global value
The existence of every state depends on secure borders – reason enough to advocate for the strengthening and reform of the United Nations.
Transition to the logic of power
If subject areas, such as economics or science, can organize themselves according to their own logic, it becomes worthwhile to make every operational effort, and overall welfare increases. This constellation, also known as complex interdependence (Keohane/Nye 1977), fundamentally undermines and attacks the populist power-thinking and actions of Trump, Putin & Co. – resulting in global welfare losses...
USA:
From democrat to kleptocracy
Donald Trump thinks and acts unilaterally, according to the motto: Trump's America First. However, tariff increases hinder global trade and reduce overall economic productivity. Furthermore, economic unilateralism promotes general political and military unilateralism, thereby increasing the potential for violence. Finally, Trump and his cronies enrich themselves shamelessly at the expense of the 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 notion that equality can only be achieved through fixed shares (quotas) of power or positions is prevalent not only in the women's movement – a view that can be justified as a counterpoint to a rigid power structure. However, quotas privilege the group subject to them, and within that group, especially those who represent them.
Equality exists when all participants have equal rights and can effectively exercise them, such as the right to vote, which guarantees active and passive suffrage without discrimination, equal voting power, and a guaranteed opportunity to participate freely. See, for example, a discussion on this topic from 2018 in the book: Theory of Civil Modernity (link below).