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 ...

President Donald Trump’s recent commentary on the economy is drawing plenty of comparisons to then-President Joe Biden’s. In his most dismissive remarks on the topic to date, Trump ratcheted up his ...

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 ...

Political violence in a polarized US is surging, with the past five years of assassinations and attempts on the lives of politicians the highest on records dating back to the 1960s, a Bloomberg ...

Independent analysis of Ethiopia's 2026 elections: supermajority outcomes, democratic challenges, and governance.

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Edward Segal covers crisis-related news, topics, and issues. Political risk has rapidly become a top-three corporate threat, ...

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, ...