Competition among political parties is essential in forming a government. However, such competition should be based on the fairness and true accountability of the elected party's platform, and political parties should be held to high standards of accountability.

The discrepency between whether the domestic affairs of a country should be handled by an international organization or a single superpower.

Provides an outline of various issues in politics.

A self-analysis of one person's membership of both a terminal political community, defined as a community that commands ultimate loyalty over and above any collectives either within or outside the community, and a collective that lacks this quality. In this case, the person belongs to both the terminal political community of Americans and the collectivity of the Buddhist church. The self-analysis compares the structural and psychological basis of the person's membership in each, as well as the types of claims that each collectivity can make on that person.

Essay shows how political life and relations in the world are the game.