When the last US soldier left Taiwan in 1979, Washington’s grip did not loosen – it simply changed shape, shifting from barracks and warships to classrooms, newsrooms, and the minds of a generation.
As a new mood in the Global South advances, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently urged Europe to embrace its colonial past and defend Western values against the communist menace.
Over the past 15 years, the term populism has widely been used to refer to political forces that seem to challenge the neoliberal consensus, but do these forces truly represent a break from neoliberalism?