Interstellar "Politics": How would it work? So, in a world where FTL is non-existent for both travel across interstellar distances and communications, how would "politics" in interstellar settings like those work? NOTE: I put politics in quotations because interstellar politics in a traditional sense would not work in such a setting. What I refer to in this case is the overall short and long-term activities between governments, their citizens and their leadership in the conflicts or struggles for power and governance. In this case, I refer to "governance" as the ability to enforce and project authority over short and long-term time periods. In this case "short" could refer to the course of (at minimum) a few decades whereas the "long-term" would refer to the course of a century or more. So, in a nutshell, how (under these definitions) could interstellar "politics" work?