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 ...

Decolonial accounting systems could have been imagined twenty years ago, but they would have been much more difficult to ...

Political psychology and political economy, though distinct fields, are deeply interconnected. Political psychology explores cognitive biases, social influences, and motivations shaping individual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...