Articles

The Geopolitical Implications of the Russo-Ukraine War for Central Asia

Andrew Latham and Audun Sundeen • Apr 18 2022 • Articles

Central Asia is heading towards a radical reconfiguration in the geopolitical balance of power, possibly even towards war.

Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean: A Chance for Cooperation or a Warning of Conflict?

Filip Ivanovic • Apr 16 2022 • Articles

Ongoing tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean represents an opportunity for the European Union to rethink its enlargement and cooperation policies.

Putin’s Brutal War and Ukraine’s Dark Heritage

Martin Duffy • Apr 16 2022 • Articles

For the authorities in Kyiv, wartime shortages and near starvation in cities like Mariupol recall the dark past of the Holodomor.

The Crime of Defending a River: Domination, Racism, and Structural Violence in Guatemala

Miguel Alejandro Saquimux Contreras • Apr 14 2022 • Articles

Despite structural violence against the Q’anjob’al people, a historic triumph stopped a hydroelectric plant on their sacred Q’an B’alam River.

Latin American Critical Economic Thinking and the Labor Market

Rocio Arredondo and Javier Castellon • Apr 12 2022 • Articles

Latin American critical thinking addresses problems intrinsic to Latin American countries and provides policy makers with the analytical arguments for implementing a different development strategy. 

Decolonizing South-South Cooperation: An Analytical Framework

The peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean design and practice forms of existence based on ancestral epistemological and ontological structures.

New Book – Decolonizing Politics and Theories from the Abya Yala

Aura Cumes • Apr 9 2022 • Articles

This book has important contributions, but it has a greater virtue – to generate concerns of various topics from decolonial thought of great relevance at this time for the social sciences.

Armed Actors in the Colombian Conflict: State vs Armed Groups

The presence of social, political and economic uncertainty is pertinent when we talk about an inefficient state and an organized group which confronts it.

Opinion – The Russia-Ukraine War from the Perspective of a Data Scientist

Maarten Wensink • Apr 7 2022 • Articles

With its free press, the West is collecting an ever-growing wealth of data on the world. Yet these data are compatible with so many narratives that we remain blind and unbelieved.

Latin American Antiphilosophies

Christina Soto van der Plas • Apr 7 2022 • Articles

Truths exist in a space and time, and not in the vacuum that Europe promotes in order to preserve the character of ‘universal’ history.

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