Category: Politics

December 1, 2015

RMB Inclusion into SDR: Hyperbole and Reality

Read a guest post on the IMF’s decision to accept RMB, the Chinese currency, into the currency basket that made up its Special Drawing Rights (SDR), by Ho-fung Hung, author of THE CHINA BOOM: WHY CHINA WILL NOT RULE THE WORLD.

November 30, 2015

Marx after Marx — An Interview with Harry Harootunian

“The role Marxism plays today is the same critical vocation and practice Marx imagined at the start. It is still the best critical strategy we have available to understanding … and grasping what must be done.”—Harry Harootunian The following is...

November 19, 2015

The Attacks in Paris Reveal the Strategic Limits of ISIS — Olivier Roy

Olivier Roy’s recent article for the New York Times in the wake of the Paris attacks.

November 13, 2015

A Chronology of State Making and Capitalist Development in China

Read an excerpt from Ho-fung Hung’s chronology of the development of both capitalism and the state in China from the 16th to the 21st centuries from THE CHINA BOOM: WHY CHINA WILL NOT RULE THE WORLD.

November 12, 2015

Political Uncertainties in Post-miracle China

Read “Political Uncertainties in Post-miracle China,” an article by Ho-fung Hung, author of THE CHINA BOOM: WHY CHINA WILL NOT RULE THE WORLD.

November 11, 2015

China Steps Back

Read “China Steps Back,” an article by Ho-fung Hung, author of THE CHINA BOOM: WHY CHINA WILL NOT RULE THE WORLD.

November 10, 2015

Sinomania and Capitalism

Read an excerpt from “Sinomania and Capitalism,” the introduction to THE CHINA BOOM: WHY CHINA WILL NOT RULE THE WORLD, by Ho-fung Hung.

October 30, 2015

A Guru for Our Time: Eqbal Ahmad and the Life of Dissent from Empire

Read an article by Stuart Schaar, author of EQBAL AHMAD, telling a number of poignant stories about Schaar’s relationship with Ahmad and about Ahmad’s life as an activist and seminal political thinker, originally published at Juan Cole’s Informed Comment blog.

October 29, 2015

Eqbal Ahmad and Edward Said

Read an excerpt from EQBAL AHMAD: CRITICAL OUTSIDER IN A TURBULENT AGE, by Stuart Schaar, in which Schaar tells the tale of the friendship between Ahmad and Edward Said.

October 28, 2015

International Climate Negotiations

In advance of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in early December, brush up on the history and future of international climate negotiations with this excerpt from GREEN CAPITAL: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON GROWTH, by Christian de Perthuis and Pierre-André Jouvet, translated by Michael Westlake!

October 27, 2015

Introducing Green Capital

Read an excerpt from the introduction to GREEN CAPITAL: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON GROWTH, by Christian de Perthuis and Pierre-André Jouvet, translated by Michael Westlake!

October 16, 2015

How Evolutionary Psychology Can Affect Political Change — Gillian Barker

Gillian Barker, author of “Beyond Biofatalism,” argues that evolutionary psychology — properly understood — can play a part in confronting climate change and other political and social problems.