Opinion – Building the EU Narrative Towards Great Power Status
The EU is starting to demonstrate the self-assurance of a great power, but it will need to go beyond its technocratic approach and commit to a robust identity and value-based vision.
The Geopolitical Implications of the Russo-Ukraine War for Central Asia
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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.
