by Lauren Alvarez-Romero | Dec 3, 2020 | University of Georgia
The Case of Chile North and south. Black and white. Up and down. Opposites do not always attract, and this is especially true in politics. Polar opposites typically leave no room to budge. Yet when polar opposites do come together, it does not necessarily result in...
by Celia Conway | Nov 23, 2020 | Northeastern University
From the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States to the Ni Una Menos collective based in Argentina, protests against neoliberal policies and states have increased in the past decades. As neoliberal policies have led to increased economic inequality, movements...
by Luis Sierra | Apr 29, 2019 | University of Chicago
Since President Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, China has significantly increased controls over its already censored cyberspace. With the introduction of the social credit system which is aiming by 2020 to be able to standardize the assessment of citizens’ and...
by Roberto Cordova | Feb 15, 2019 | Boston University
Brazil’s recently elected 38th president, Jair Bolsonaro, has spread his name globally through his offensive comments and provocative far-right political views. While these things have earned him the nickname ‘Brazilian Trump,’ they have also called into question his...
by Dean Weeden | Feb 12, 2019 | Boston University
The global rise of nationalism in recent years has given rise to far-right movements across the globe, but its effects have been contained primarily in the United States, and the West (think Germany, and the UK). That is, contained until the rise of Jair Bolsonaro in...
