What the last four years of a Trump presidency has taught us is that bluster can really reshape the world in all kinds of unpredictable ways. Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1989, the United States has grown accustomed to viewing the world through a myopic singular hegemonic and strategic lens. But for […]
When we think of the end of US global hegemony, it’s perhaps worth reminding ourselves that we are also talking about the decline of the global neoliberal capitalist order. This global order has ‘warehoused’ the Pacific Islands at the extreme periphery of the global economy. Indeed, as the government of Nauru stated in its concept […]
It’s difficult to imagine that our liquid continent– the largest continent on our blue planet is on the cusp of becoming privatized by both corporate interests and militarized foreign conservancy. How this is occurring may seem convoluted and exploratory, but there is creeping legislation being proposed at the international level that seeks to manage and […]
The WTO has been on life support ever since it got stuck in the neoliberal quagmire during the unresolved 1999 Doha Round. But that’s a good thing since civil society was able to maintain a global defense against unfair market access and intellectual property rules that the neoliberal countries sought to liberalize in developing countries […]
Welcome to THE INTER-GLOBALIST where we approach the shifting landscape of globalization and explore the intersectionality of the global north and the global south, east-west collaborations, the space between indigeneity and labour mobility, semi-sovereign entities and new development sectors.
Decoding Falsehoods: our 21st century Chajusong. Hello, I’d like to thank Juyeon and the other organizers for having me speak on what I think are some very controversial and nuanced subjects regarding the Hong Kong protests and the Uyghur detainment in Xinjiang. When we spoke last week, we had a good conversation about mainstream media […]
How China’s BRI redraws the geopolitical map (Summit Magazine, 2017) Despite cautionary fears of China’s global ambitions, the rapidly industrializing communist republic’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) may be the single greatest development project in the history of the world. The BRI seeks to develop the necessary infrastructure to link China with other economic regions. […]
One of the slippery aspects about economics as a whole, is that for a discipline that holds as much power in human life as universal laws do for nature, economics is neither a science nor a philosophy. Mostly, it is a governing practice of human activity that is guided and moved as much by human […]
Rewriting Economic History From the perspective of a blogger/activist addressing the negative impact of globalization on people and ecological biodiversity, I recently considered organizing a campaigning group to explore one of the most fundamental and underutilized ways of addressing economic justice through National Accounting Systems. I’ve been occasionally writing about its historical and contemporary significance […]
(the original version was posted March 2, 2011 in StatehoodHawaii.org) This isn’t a doom and gloom scenario by any means, rather, it is a radical shaking up of the neoliberal financial system where we will have to let the giants fail. This system is impossible to sustain and undoubtedly the US will be struggling to […]