On August 29, 2025, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)[1] released its independent yet quite intriguing stance on the geopolitical controversy of Taiwan and China. Accordingly, the DFA emphasized ...

The political economy of international trade relations examines how state power, institutional frameworks and economic interests intersect to shape commercial exchanges across borders. Central to this ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Winter 2025/26 issue of The Independent Review. This edited volume reprints the papers that appeared in a 2024 symposium published in The Review of ...

To ensure policy initiatives account for local power dynamics and incentives and can endure, we help Pacific leaders and institutions turn political analysis into practical reforms. Our Pacific ...

The events of September 2025 marked a sudden political upheaval in Nepal, triggered by student-led ‘Gen-Z’ protests and followed by rapid political change. The protests were met with a high-handed ...

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Dēmos releases the Power Scorecard, a groundbreaking state-by-state snapshot of economic, civic, and political conditions that are conducive to building economic and political power for people. Today, ...

Two new pieces of economic data, one released Thursday and one released Friday, blew another hole in President Donald Trump’s triumphant narrative about the effects of his tariffs. The figures ...

President Donald Trump's economic record has been so bad that one analyst concluded he must have wrecked it on purpose. Rather than resulting from external shocks, the 80-year-old president's economic ...