The Triangle of Power: A Review

peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Alexander Stubb, The Triangle of Power: Rebalancing the New World Order (Columbia Global Reports / Biteback Publishing, January 2026, 216 pp.)

There is something almost paradoxical about a sitting head of state publishing a book of serious international relations theory. Political memoirs are common enough; policy manifestos, dime a dozen. But The Triangle of Power is neither. Finnish President Alexander Stubb — former foreign minister, prime minister, finance minister, MEP, and Professor and Director of the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute in Florence — has written what is genuinely a work of political science, grounded in first-hand experience at the highest levels of diplomacy, and aimed at a fundamental question: what kind of world order comes after the one that is currently falling apart?

Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion

peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Just finished reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

Although the quality of Dawkins’s argumentation varies, he manages to present a reasonably-well justified case against allowing religion to be anything more than a person’s private belief. One thing he has completely overlooked is that several [secular] ideologies and political systems based thereof work on exactly the same principles as organized religions — the “0th commandment” being “thou shalt not question anything told by the elders”.

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The Triangle of Power: A Review

Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion