Iran: sovereignty under siege, society under pressure
Between US sanctions and internal repression, Iran is experiencing a structural impasse that exposes the limits of authoritarianism and economic warfare.
Maria Luiza Falcao Silva
She holds a PhD from Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, is a retired professor from the University of Brasília, and is a member of the Brazil-China Group on the Economics of Climate Change (GBCMC) at Neasia/UnB. She is the author of Modern Exchange Rate Regimes, Stabilisation Programmes and Coordination of Macroeconomic Policies, Ashgate, England.
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Greenland: the border that reveals the collapse of the international order.
The attempted annexation of Greenland exposes the erosion of post-war rules and reveals how force is once again prevailing over law in international relations.
January 8th: Remember so that it never happens again.
It wasn't an outburst, it was a project.
Tarcísio's irresponsibility: when the Venezuelan crisis becomes an electoral platform in Brazil.
Tarcísio does not present himself as a statesman in training, but as a politician willing to exploit any crisis.
After Venezuela, Cuba: the dangerous logic of imperial dominoes.
Trump's second term didn't inaugurate hostility toward Cuba; it exposed it.
Venezuela as a laboratory of chaos and the new geopolitics of force.
The fact that the country possesses the world's largest oil reserves and maintains strategic partnerships with China and Russia is not a minor detail.
Globalization reconfigured or world adrift?
Between Chinese optimism and the structural crisis of the international order.
Crisis as a method: the world enters 2026 without direction or consensus.
The ongoing crisis is becoming established as a method of governance, exposing the exhaustion of the global model and revealing the absence of leaders capable of providing collective direction.
Trump's foreign policy 2.0: diplomacy dismantled, power eroded.
Crisis in the State Department exposes the current US president's strategy of weakening professional diplomacy.
The Fed under pressure, the return of easy money, and the silent acceleration of de-dollarization.
Each round of monetary easing under political pressure weakens the orthodox dollar narrative.
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