How to cite this journal: Author, Date of the post, WMO Conflict Insight, Title of the post, ISSN: 2628 6998, https://worldmediation.org/journal/ ABSTRACT * This essay asks whether the principal obstacle in politics is not ideas or law but unsound behaviour, deficient communication and personality disorder, and whether existing structures reward precisely these traits. Written as a sequence of open questions, it traces the influence of adversarial assumptions from mercantilism to modern theories of competition, considers the promise and the limits of the information revolution, and invokes Ortega y Gasset’s warning
against specialisation that leaves individuals discounting their own experience and specialists indifferent to the whole. Drawing on Lawrence…
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