Tag: global politics

Seminal moment in global politics

Chile’s early dalliance with neoliberalism also exposes how the latter requires extreme violence or ‘shocks’ — as Naomi Klein argues in The Shock Doctrine — to entrench itself. Klein traces how the massive  upheaval the privatisation policies of neoliberal Chile triggered were only implemented under a draconian regime that rested on mass killings and torture which served as the ‘shock’ that allowed Chilean society to become more complaisant towards these radical economic changes.

December 28, 2021

Is the world headed for Cold War 2 – this time between the US and China?

"It is apparent that we have entered deep into a 'multi-polar era. This means the world's second-tier powers have more room to act independently of the major powers, especially as there are no 'world policemen' as there was during the Cold War."

June 16, 2021