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12 articles · Writing for PUGAT 2021–2026 · 2 series
From Google to NVIDIA, today’s tech giants were not grown by capital alone; they were grown by leaders who instilled a dream in their employees. A look at Silicon Valley through the concept of transformational leadership.
Algorithms guide us, narrow our options and tell us, “Don’t worry, I’m thinking for you.” A look at our relationship with artificial intelligence through the lens of paternalistic leadership.
As voices rise in politics, meaning narrows. While the extremes multiply, the centre first shortens its sentences, then lowers its voice. Could conciliatory leadership be the way to rebuild the bridges being dismantled?
The story of the girl who would not water down the milk takes place in a single night but has been told for centuries. Remaining fair where no one is watching is still the most critical test of politics and government today.
A leader is expected to be strong and humble, decisive and attentive all at once. Paradoxical leadership is the art of balancing these contradictory expectations of politics.
“Politics is the art of fleecing the people” is a crude saying, but it captures a truth: instead of denying reality, modern politics packages part of it and leaves the rest in the dark. On the trinity of good news, patience and foreign powers.
Plato’s Republic and Nizam al-Mulk’s Siyasatnama ask the same question: How long can order survive without justice? Power that grows through extraordinary powers does not strengthen the state; it inflates it like a balloon ready to burst.
As the US and NATO withdrew, the Taliban took Kandahar and Herat with almost no resistance. Who is the loser in Afghanistan?
In his videos Sedat Peker likened Süleyman Soylu to Joseph Fouché, the scheming police minister of the French Revolution. The author explains the historical background and meaning of this allusion.
From Plato's world of Forms to Don Quixote's windmills: The author uses philosophical references to interpret the profile of a politician who wages war according to the ideal world in his own mind.
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