In Statu Nascendi is a new peer-reviewed journal that aspires to be a world-class scholarly platform encompassing original academic research dedicated to the circle of Political Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Theory of International Relations, Foreign Policy, and the political Decision-making process. The journal investigates specific issues through a socio-cultural, philosophical, and anthropological approach to raise a new type of civic awareness about the complexity of contemporary crisis, instability, and warfare situations, where the "stage-of-becoming" plays a vital role. Issue 2018:1 comprises, amongst others, the following articles: · Corporate Instrumentalization of Deliberative Democracy in Global Governance · Being Transgender and Transgender Being · A Comparative Study between Levinas and Kierkegaard on Subjectivity and the Self · The Kremlin¿s Reaction to the St. Petersburg Metro Attacks seen through the Prism of Russian Intervention in Syria · Donald Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia, Saudi-Iranian Relations, and the Future of the Iranian Nuclear Deal · The United Kingdom on the Verge of a "Constitutional Crisis": Between the Possibility of a Second Referendum on the Membership in the European Union and a Potential Second Vote on Scottish Independence

Piotr Pietrzak is a Ph.D. Candidate at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridiski". He holds a Master¿s Degree in International Politics & International Relations from the University of Manchester and a Master¿s Degree in Politics from the University of Warmia and Mazury (Poland). Pietrzak was awarded an Erasmus Scholarship in 2007. He specializes in the politics of the Middle East and the Islamic world, and focuses his attention on the theory of international relations; geopolitics, conflict resolution strategies, and international law; and primarily matters related to the First and Second World Wars, and superpower competition during the Cold War.