#Nicolas Laos

In this book, you will find a scholarly rigorous investigation of the issue of humanity’s illumination and an integral, strategic existential proposal. The greatest challenges facing humanity in the contemporary era are: first of all, a global existential crisis; secondly, the misconceived and deceiving dilemmas “post-ontological truths versus post-truth rhetoric,” “populism versus technocracy,” “nihilistic nationalism versus nihilistic globalism,” and “secularist/atheistic obscurantism...

Often policy-makers and, in general, decision-makers do not lack advise or information; they are in many respects overwhelmed by advice and information. They do lack analyses, syntheses, and mainly criteria on which to base judgments. In the absence of suitable analyses, syntheses, and standards, all advice tends to become equivalent, and, ultimately, pragmatism and factionalism prevail. The dilemma of policy is not so much that it cannot act on what it has defined as useful and...

Introduction The field of intelligence studies, as an academic discipline, has served as a conduit through which the calibration of foreign policy, the history of war, the history of diplomacy, the development and decline of empire, and the restructuring of the international system in general have been subjected to new methods of inquiry and analysis. Furthermore, the field of intelligence studies is intimately related to business and economic policy (business intelligence being an...

With this essay, I continue my research into the history of espionage and intelligence in general. In the first part of this research project, which was published by R-Techno Ltd on 15 August 2022, I discussed important aspects of the thought and the actions of Sun Tzu, Alexander the Great, Sir Francis Walsingham, Christopher Marlowe, Daniel Defoe, Cardinal Richelieu, and Benjamin Franklin in the fields of espionage and intelligence in general. You can download and read that essay in the...

Political economy is a social science that studies production of economic wealth, trade (of goods and services), and distribution of income as well as their relationship with the political and legal system. Moreover, it is the study of the manner in which economic theories affect different socio-economic systems as well as the creation and implementation of public policy.  Like many other social scientists, I agree with Kurt Lewin’s assertion that there is nothing as practical as a good...

By Dr. Nicolas Laos (Partner, R-Techno Ltd) On 12 January 2023, in Volos (Thessaly, Greece), which is the seat of the Greek-Orthodox Metropolis of Dimitrias and Almyros, a strongly politicized anti-Russian “theological conference” took place. The participants included nearly 400 Orthodox Christian theologians from 44 countries formally convened in order to discuss supposedly “Nicaea-sized” questions facing the Eastern Orthodox Church in the context of war and division. The keynote...