How the US-EU Partnership Is Fracturing
The future transatlantic partnership will remain powerful—but less cohesive, less dominant and more transactional. The 2025 agreement may contain the conflict, but
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The Dawn of a New Cold War
Private sector expenditures on AI in the United States still exceed China’s investments by a considerable margin. But the Trump administration’s cuts
Empire Without Flags: Imperial Outreach and the Architecture of Structural Power
The same integration into global markets that helped sustain American-led globalization also enabled China’s rapid industrial rise, turning a former recipient of
Epistemologies of the South, the Left, and Communism
In the non-Eurocentric world, communism referred to premodern, communal forms of collective life. In fact, the truly existing version of communism arose
The End of the Old Economic Order Is an Opening for the Left
For decades, the rules of the global economy — and the economics discipline — seemed fixed. But now, with Donald Trump’s help,
The Left Will Reemerge, Part 1: The Short Term Clarification
In the short term, detraditionalizing the left (the entire spectrum of the left) means making it capable—whether in government or in opposition—of
Has the African Century Begun?
In the sense of Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s words, Africa is destined to grow, but by 2050, the world may have
Trump Comes to Beijing with Hat in Hand, And Leaves With a Handshake from Xi
The “new mood” across the Global South emerges precisely from this recognition. Nations that were once treated merely as objects of Western
Pope Leo is Building a Theology of Resistance Against DC
As the 2026 midterms approach, the domestic political fallout of this rift may be significant, but the international consequences are far more
Power, justice, and the decolonization of the global order
History offers no guarantees. Power transitions have often reproduced the hierarchies they claimed to overturn. Yet the present moment also carries unprecedented