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THERESA MAY AND AUSTERITY: DANCE AND NO ONE’S WATCHING
“I’m just Theresa, nobody loves me.” It would not be surprising if those were actually the words of an exhausted Theresa May entering No. 10 after another day of Brexit chaos and exposition …
History Revisited: The Chicago Boys Return to South America
On 2 January 2019, Paulo Guedes was inaugurated as Brazil’s Finance Minister under the new government of Jair Bolsonaro. Guedes is now facing the herculean task of reviving Latin America’s largest economy which …
The resurrection of the Left: Germany’s Green revolt
The recent rise of right-wing populism has caught the Western establishment firmly off-guard. Echoed in Fukuyama’s infamous political diagnosis that this was “the end of history”, the liberal status-quo established at the end …
2018: “Year of the Woman” or flash in the pan?
Before the New Year rolled in, media commentators were already proclaiming 2018 as the “Year of the Woman”. As developments that led to the coining of this label continue to surface, it is …