Paper presented at the International Relations Conference, Argentina (November 25, 26, and 27, 2026) Introduction Many observers are closely monitoring what has been referred to since the early 21st century as the relative decline of Western hegemony and the advent of a multipolar world. It is a fact that the supremacy consolidated over…
Briefing (September 2026) Thirty years ago, information set out to conquer the global economy against the backdrop of the triumphant—and relatively stable—Pax Americana. The “information age” was reshaping the landscape in terms of the automation of production and service processes, as well as in the areas of communication and the cognitive envelopment of…
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic was undoubtedly a catalyst for the geopolitical changes underway in the first quarter of the 21st century. All evidence suggests that it also marked the beginning of a new biopolitical era, affecting a vast number of people, regardless of their nationality or where they live on the planet. Indeed, it has…
Paper presented at the Fourth Latin American Congress of Chinese Studies, Argentina – August 2026. Introduction After 1979, relations between China and the United States took on a form sometimes described as “symbiotic”.” Around the 2000s, the bilateral relationship evolved into a phase of competition in which Beijing and Washington once again clashed on…
The “Internet of Bodies” is a reality. For better or worse, millions of connected prosthetics now link the human body to the global computer network—not in the form of microchips implanted with citizens’ consent. You are likely, without your knowledge, hosting a biotechnological compound that turns your body into a transceiver, transmitting your geolocation…
At the end of 2024, the new president of the United States once again put Panama in the eye of the storm. The metaphor is not exaggerated. As a crossroad of major transnational flows and an unprecedented gateway between two oceans, Panama is today one of the points of contact between the two major…
A year is drawing to a close at the edge of the sixty centuries that separate us from the dawn of human history. A blink of an eye, if ever there was one, on which a retrospective view remains essential in order to discern the overall trends and look ahead. The last four years…
Initiated in 1999, the free trade agreement between Europe and Latin America now seems obsolete. Yet there is a need to unite the two sides of the Atlantic in the face of China’s power. But the war of standards and the intrusive power of NGOs are blocking the growth of power. The December…
It is an almost taken-for-granted idea that what we call the West is in relative decline. From an invincible West and a Europe controlling most of Asia or Africa in 1914, what remains today is a “de-Europeanized” configuration on a profoundly changed global chessboard. China and other powers have contributed to the design of…
Is ecology the world’s new totem? Eco-citizen responsibility and the ecological preaching broadcasted daily by the media seem to be melting into the great project of the Green New Deal, or even “green civilization”, displayed by the two great geopolitical powers of the moment. Virtually everyone is now turning their attention to this polysemous…
Dunia draws lessons from ten years of action-observation in contact with different socio-political and geo-cultural environments. The harsh and multipolar world calls for a new frame of reference for thought and action. Conceiving such a frame of reference implies an arduous and demanding effort of adaptation, in order to keep up with the shifting…
Pluto and his cornucopia had dreamed of it. Information spread across the world like a prodigal and unlimited stream of immaterial resources accessible to everyone. Combined with the human hand and mind, the network and the microprocessor opened wide the door to the third industrial age and the information age. It was the inevitable…