September 2026 (Vol. 11 Issue 5)

Maladaptive Daydreaming in Adulthood: Theoretical Conceptualizations, Comorbidities, and the Role of Default Mode Network

Ayşe Ela Erol

15/09/2026

This literature review examines how maladaptive daydreaming (MD) has been conceptualized in adult psychological and psychiatric research from 2002 to 2025. MD was initially described as excessive, immersive fantasy activity associated with distress and functional impairment (Somer, 2002), and ...

The Architecture of Modern Stability: Multipolarity and the “Economic Cage” in the 2020s

Yasin Zhalgasbaeva

15/09/2026

This article examines whether contemporary multipolarity is structurally more vulnerable to great-power war than the international systems of the twentieth century. It develops a qualitative comparative historical analysis of four periods: pre-1914 multipolarity, Cold War bipolarity, post-Cold War unipolarity, ...