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This book brings together works in analytical political philosophy, comparative politics, political psychology, and conflict studies. It includes: An Index-Based Approach to Formalizing John Rawls's Theory of Justice; The Global Veil: A Rawlsian Thought Experiment for International Justice; Should We Modify Moral Principles?; A Logical Argument for the Distinction Between a Human Fetus and a Human Being; A Logical Substantiation of Bioregionalism Based on Harmony with Nature as a Moral Value; The Possibility of a Tactical Alliance of Political Currents; Double Political Metaphor, from Leviathan and Superman to the Devil and Superpower; and studies in comparative politics and political science of political regimes. The volume examines the formalization of justice through indices, proposes the concept of the Global Veil as a hypothetical decision-making condition for international justice, analyzes the transformation of moral norms, substantiates bioregionalism through harmony with nature as a moral value, and explores the logical structure of political alliances and metaphors of power. It further investigates democratic backsliding, polarization, epistemic theories of democracy, authoritarian self-preservation, fragmentation of security apparatuses, ethnocentrism, corruption and regulation, military purges, paramilitary delegation of violence, and the relationship between migration and automation. The unifying feature of the book is the use of logical structure, conceptual clarification, and analytical argument in examining contemporary political and moral problems.