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Electronegativity as a new case for emergence and a new problem for reductionism
The potential reducibility of chemical entities to their physical bases is a matter of dispute between ontological reductionists on one hand, and...
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Dreams and Power in Kafka’s The Castle
This chapter argues that Franz Kafka’s most anarchic political expression, the expression of freedom in The Castle’s dream scene, relies on an...
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Max Power: Implementing the Capabilities Approach to Identify Thresholds and Ceilings in Energy Justice
In this paper, we apply the capabilities approach—with the addition of capability ceilings—to energy justice. We argue that, to ensure energy...
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The Argument from War and Peace
Unless a world government is established, there will be war in the world. If a world government is established, with a monopoly on the use of...
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Bond order and bond energies
This work describes the concept of bond order. It shows that covalent bond energy is correlated to bond order. Simple expressions which included bond...
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The Kazakh Ethical Tradition and Anti-nuclear Ethics
The article analyses the contribution of the Kazakh traditional ethics to the formation of a modern harmonious world. The peaceful and harmonizing...
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Conclusion
The conclusion argues that the understanding of inheritance as taken up and critiqued in this manuscript allows us to see the sense in which energy...
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Theory of Power Transition
The theory of power transition focusing on Robert Gilpin (War and change in world politics. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1981) It has been...
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Introduction: Politics, Humanity, Power and Justice
This volume brings together a variety of scholars and intellectual disciplines from around the world and across academia. Differences of person,...
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What We Need to Do
This chapter begins with a resumé of the argument of the book. It then discusses three global problems we must solve if we are to have any hope of a...
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Human Rationality, Consciousness, and Cosmology
In this final chapter, I return to where I began in Chap. 2, with the metaphysical continuity of mind and life, and show how human rationality,...
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Deliberating with the Autocrats? A Case Study on the Limitations and Potential of Political CSR in a Non-Democratic Context
Extant literature on Political CSR and the role of governments in the governance of business conduct tends to neglect key implications of the...
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Atomic Destruction
Atomic destruction—the central modality of the Cold War nuclear arms race—is integral to understanding the Anthropocene. Geologists have identified...
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Introduction
This chapter explains the central argument of the book and elaborates on the means the book will take to establish the argument. The chapter opens...
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Cyber Weapons and the Fifth Domain: Implications of Cyber Conflict on International Relations
Since the advent of the internet, governments endeavored to shape its use for their strategic advantage. This ambition extends to military...
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Catastrophe
This article discusses how the notion of ‘catastrophe’ has evolved over time. Having examined the origins of the notion, it shows the transition from...
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Renewable Energy
Renewable energy can be defined as energy produced by natural resources that are naturally replenished within a time span of a few years (Lund H....
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Human Existence: Paradigm of Power Struggle
Human history is vast and humankind which has made tremendous progress in science and technology; yet, we need to ponder over the problem that 'have...
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Enlightened Despotism: Scope and Limits
I put my hopeHope (in desperate situation) in the advent of some kind of global despotic rule which saves humanity before it is too late—at the very...