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Thinking Beyond the Horizon: Strategy, Ethics, and Leadership
Society & Strategy offers forward-looking analysis at the intersection of politics, philosophy, institutional design, and societal transformation. This section examines the strategic frameworks, ethical questions, and structural choices that shape leadership, resilience, and governance in an increasingly uncertain world.
From strategic foresight and organisational design to civil-institutional relations, social cohesion, and the ethics of power, Liberal Briefs explores how both public and private actors prepare for complexity. We investigate how institutions, ideologies, and infrastructures respond to disruption, and what it means to lead, adapt, and govern amid systemic change.
Beyond the Horseshoe - A New Model to Separate Dissent from Extremism
Left vs right is the wrong map. Beyond the Horseshoe introduces the Pluralistic Gradient Model of Radicalisation (PGMR), a research-backed way to separate legitimate dissent from anti-pluralist extremism. Drawing on McCauley & Moskalenko, Moghaddam’s staircase, Kruglanski & Bélanger’s 3N, Bandura on moral disengagement, Haslam on dehumanisation, Europol’s TE-SAT 2024, and UNDP fieldwork, the essay shows how radicalisation unfolds as a process, and pinpoints the indicators that mark a crossing into danger. The payoff is practical: proportionate, rights-respecting responses that protect democratic resilience without criminalising protest.
The End of Moral Certainty: Reimagining Ethics to Rebuild Trust and Dialogue
In an era of rising polarisation, democratic instability, and misinformation, this essay explores how rethinking morality through post-realist ethics, drawing from moral philosophy, psychology, and historical critique, can help rebuild public trust, foster social cohesion, and open space for meaningful dialogue in pluralist societies.