Tom Chodor is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests are in the areas of international political economy, international relations and globalization. In particular, he is interested the transformations in the global political economy brought about by the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and the emergence of new powers from the Global South, in particular the BRICS. He is author of Neoliberal Hegemony and The Pink Tide in Latin America: Breaking Up With TINA? (Palgrave 2015).