The G-Zero World, a concept developed by the geopolitical consultancy Eurasia, presents the idea that, in the current world, no single nation nor institutions such as the UN, G20, and NATO possess simultaneously the internal alignment and the vast resources necessary to lead alone the
The Complex Trade Relations between China, Mexico, and the United States: A Geopolitical Approach Note: this post is based on Montoya, M.A., Lemus, D., Kaltenecker, E. (2022). The Complex Trade Relations between China, Mexico, and the United States: A Geopolitical Approach. In: López, D., Song,
Information is the lifeblood of the 21st-century economy. The increasing generation, processing, and exchange of data on a global scale constitute one of the characteristic features of what I call Globalization 2.0, which is a different version of the previous phase of globalization, based on
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) is a song written and performed by the pop-rock band R.E.M. in the distant year of 1987. Because of the global coronavirus pandemic, suddenly this song became the voice of the
Professors Miguel Montoya, Daniel Lemus, and Evodio Kaltenecker, all from the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, wrote an article (link here) which analyzes how geopolitical factors impact the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Latin America, in the context of the growing influence of China in
The US, even before under President Donald Trump´s administration, has complained about China’s trading practices, and recently the US raised tariffs from 10 per cent to 25 per cent on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. As expected, a few days later China retaliated with
Introduction: “FAAG”: We should get used with this acronym, which stands for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Google. These companies share many things: they are high tech businesses, highly successful, extremely profitable, and part of the daily lives of billions of people around the globe. A
Introduction The Chinese rise in the global economy and the strength of the economic ties between China and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) may reduce the economic influence of the United States in that part of the world. Given that the combined GDP of
The rise of Chinese influence in Brazil By Evodio Kaltenecker, Ph.D. Nature hates the vacuum, so do superpowers. Therefore, the geopolitical space allowed by the United States is seemingly being filled by China. [1] For instance, the Asian giant became Brazil’s most important trade partner in
