Dear Readers,
With this Inaugural Blog Post we are launching the ThePoliticalMinds.com website project and
initiative.
The interest here is to look at international
developments in politics, economy, society, education, culture, sciences and
arts, and ecology. Knowledge Economy, Knowledge Democracy, Quality of
Democracy, and Innovation are core concepts that are defining key references
for analysis. A further intention will be to provide for analytical
contributions, which can cross-network with international discourse. At the
same time, we will try as much as possible, to avoid standard partisan approaches
based on every-day political queries. Pros & Cons arguments are to be
produced systematically during the conduct of analysis.
Attempting to approach Knowledge Economy and
Knowledge Democracy sufficiently does require an international and global
perspective, even knowing that human civilization has begun to evolve beyond
the context of our planet Earth. The poles of freedom and equality continuously
produce challenges for further democratic development, so dilemmas may be more
the rule than the exception.
There is one proposition, however, which is underlying
the approach followed here. For the further evolution of democracy, the
interaction, cooperation, and mutual learning between the United States and
Europe (European Union) is to be regarded to be essential and represents and
defines one of the core parameters of the international political system.
We end this introduction with a provoking metaphor,
admitting that metaphors are never comprehensively right, but wanting to throw up
a humorous fragment of a picture. We ask: What is wrong with the “international
relations metaphor” that Europe may resemble Ancient Greece and the United
States, Ancient Rome? The journey shall begin.
The Founders of ThePoliticalMinds.com:
David F. J. Campbell & Robert R. Fragnito