Beneficiation and localisation are often approached uncritically, especially in political discourse, where they have become fashionable terms.
The prospects for localisation
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A fractured world: reflections on power, polarity and polycrisis
Nick Buxton speaks to Adam Tooze, and Walden Bello, to examine where geopolitical or geoeconomic power lies today, how it is being exercised and how that might be changing.
The Trump-Putin Axis and its impact on global politics
Donald Trump’s forging of a political alliance with Russia’s Vladimir Putin represents a dramatic transformation of world politics.
‘America First’ and the great upheaval in international relations
The ‘America First’ logic, adopted by the US neofascist movement known as MAGA, may seem rational to those who are not familiar with the economic history of international relations.
This changes everything: The threat of Trumpism for South Africa
For calling out Israel’s genocide, the South African government is subject to Trump’s punitive actions. And no doubt more is to follow.
‘The green transition is a myth’: Adam Hanieh on the ongoing centrality of oil to capitalism
Under capitalism, envisioning a shift away from fossil fuels is more difficult by the day.
Africa can use Global North’s unilateral departures from trade agreements to support low carbon industrialisation
Africa is among regions contributing least to global warming, but among those most affected by it.
Venezuela: a ‘civic-military-police’ regime
Interview with Emiliano Terán Mantovani This interview was not easy to put together, as Emiliano has to move with extreme caution in the face of the overwhelming militarisation that the country is experiencing. How would you characterise the Maduro government? Since...
The logic of imperialism’s ‘Maritime Great Game’ in the Southeast Asian Sea
A fresh inter-imperialist conflict is mounting in the form of a ‘Maritime Great Game’, and it is swiftly accelerating across the Southeast Asian Sea.