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…