The Dialectics

The Unpredictable Variable: Why Human Agency Defies Political Science

political science and human decision

Political science and international relations, like other branches of the social sciences, form a field of inquiry that is not only inseparable from complex social dynamics but is also deeply entangled with the thoughts, impulses, and decisions of individuals who do not always think or act in predictable, rational ways.

Islamic Feminism: Are they not feminist enough?

The notion of “Islamic Feminism” invokes the basic confrontation among religion and feminism. While religion is typically deemed as dogmatic and disadvantageous to women largely due to the historical domination of patriarchal interpretation of religious texts.

Why the Western Model of Secularism Is Straining Under Diversity?

why western model of secularism is struggling now

Secularism in much of the Western world was never the abstract, universal principle it is often assumed to be. It emerged from a very specific historical confrontation between the Christian church and the modernising state, where institutional disentanglement was the primary goal.