Analysis

A Fragile Food Regime

As food inflation worsens, governments intervene while growing unrest challenges the inequities embedded in global food systems.

A Legacy in Dispute

Colombia’s presidential election will determine whether Petro’s reformist agenda endures or the far right gains national power.

Bolivia After MAS

For the past month, Bolivia has experienced massive roadblocks across eight of its nine departments, which have upended logistics, trade, and daily movement. Protesters have launched these roadblocks to call for the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz, who took office just seven months ago after winning the runoff election in October 2025.

Trucking’s Window of Opportunity

Will the Trump administration, the Supreme Court, and the data center boom bring about a restructuring in motor carrier logistics?

Mosaic of Deterrence

The US-Israeli war on Iran has foregrounded a question that has become increasingly urgent since the onset of the genocide in Gaza: how should we understand the reconfiguration of imperial power in West Asia?

The State and Its Workers

China’s rapid rise as a global power has been accompanied by an internal shift in industrial politics and a process of class recomposition. 1989 marked a fundamental rupture between two modes of industrial class politics in post-Mao China, particularly in terms of the relationship between the Party-state and the industrial working class.

Trading Sovereignty

Did the Trump tariffs inadvertently make Lula great again? In 2025, the US unilaterally imposed a 50 percent tax hike on US imports of Brazilian imports in an effort to interfere with the prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro. But rather than capitulation to Trump, what followed was a rapid cycle of Brazilian economic adjustment, with declining exports to the US more than offset through growth in other markets.