DISPATCHES showcases the commentary and public-facing work of SCW Observatory researchers and guest contributors. We are happy to consider article proposals and host guest contributors. To submit an idea, please email Seth Schindler or Jessica DiCarlo.
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Is the US and EU's anti-China railway in Africa mostly hype?
ECDPM Podcast with Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri
7 July 2026
What is Global China? From development and geopolitics to the environment and everyday
Jessica DiCARLO and Isobel LI
The Monitor
24 June 2026
Trumpian State Capitalism: Critical minerals security and US economic interventionism
Ilias ALAMI and Thea RIOFRANCOS
Phenomenal World
10 June 2026
The Resurgence of Mexican Railways: A Militarized Infrastructure State amid the Second Cold War
Carlos ESCALERA
October 2025
by Irna HOFMAN
Global China Pulse
25 July 2025
In the sky over Iran, Elon Musk and Starlink step into geopolitics – not for the first time
by Joscha ABELS
The Conversation
26 June 2025
State capitalist mutations under Trump 2.0
by Ilias ALAMI
Law and Political Economy Project
23 June 2025
Industrial Policy and Imperial Realignment
by Ilias ALAMI, Tom CHODOR, Jack TAGGART
Phenomenal World
14 June 2025
[REVIEW] “Boba, Grass Jelly, Light Ice, Democracy: On Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝑇𝑒𝑎 𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒”
by Nick ZELLER
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
31 May 2025
What did you do during the Trump Times?
by Jessica DiCARLO and Seth SCHINDLER
Global Policy
23 May 2025
Sinews of Control How state-capitalist geopolitics is reshaping global networks and power
The Monitor by The Carter Center
by Jessica DiCARLO, Ilias ALAMI, Steve ROLF, and Seth SCHINDLER
15 March 2025
The new frontline The US-China battle for control of global networks
by Ilias ALAMI, Jessica DiCARLO, Steve ROLF, and Seth SCHINDLER
State of Power 2025. The Transnational Institute.
Ilias Alami discusses it here.
The Second Cold War with Seth Schindler: How the U.S.-China rivalry will reshape globalization
The Monitor by The Carter Center
3 May 2025
Biden’s Bloc Party is Over. Stop it. On Unthinking the U.S.-China Rivalry
Rory O'CONNOR, Nick ZELLER
The Monitor by The Carter Center
26 April 2025
EUROPE AND THE SECOND COLD WAR IN SUBMARINE CABLE NETWORKS
By Joscha ABELS
SCWO Dispatches
24 April 2025
THE SECOND COLD WAR AND DEMISE OF THE WESTERN FOREIGN AID REGIME
By Jack TAGGART
SCWO Dispatches
8 February 2025
RENMINBI INTERNATIONALIZATION: PULL AND PUSH
FACTORS IN AN ERA OF GEOPOLITICAL RIVALRY
By Paolo BALMAS
SCWO Dispatches
29 January 2025
By Raphael Deberdt and Jessica DiCarlo
The Conversation
4 September 2024
READING GE’S WHAT IS CHINA? IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SECOND COLD WAR
By Paolo BALMAS
SCWO Dispatches
18 October 2024
Transnational Law as a Battle of Position
by Shaina POTTS
Law and Political Economy Blog
10 September 2024
by Mads Barbesgaard, Hao Zhang, Rachmi Hertanti, Agnes Gagyi, Pietje Vervest
The Transnational Institute
25 July 2024
Seth SCHINDLER and Kevin WARD
Global Policy
3 July 2024
By Ágnes GAGYI, Tamás GERŐCS and Linda SZABÓ
SCWO Dispatches
6 May 2024
By Nina DJUKANOVIĆ
SCWO Dispatches
2 May 2024
By Lela REKHVIASHVILI and Evelina GAMBINO
SCWO Dispatches
25 April 2024
By David KARAS
SCWO Dispatches
11 April 2024
By Agnes GAGYI, Nina DJUKANOVIĆ, Evelina GAMBINO, Tamás GERÖCS , David KARAS, Lela REKHVIASHVILI, Linda SZABÓ,
SCWO Dispatches
11 April 2024
Bringing a Politics of Sight to the BRI: In/visibility, Infrastructure, and Global China
by Jessica DiCARLO
Transformations: Belt and Road in Global Perspective. Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
4 April 2024
BRAZIL IN THE “SECOND” COLD WAR: NAVIGATING US-CHINA FAULT LINES
By Henoch Gabriel MANDELBAUM
SCWO Dispatches
22 January 2024
THE G20 WILL STRUGGLE TO ADVANCE ITS POLICY AGENDA
By Tom CHODOR
Oxford Analytica Expert Briefing
23 December 2023
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GLOBAL SOUTH OF US-CHINA RIVALRY IN STATE PLATFORM CAPITALISM
By Richard HEEKS and Seth SCHINDLER
SCWO Dispatches
9 November 2023
THE G20 MAY BE A TALK FEST, BUT IT’S A TALKFEST WE NEED AT A TIME OF GROWING DIVISION
By Tom CHODOR
The Conversation
15 November 2022
CAN THE US COMPETE WITH CHINA’S BELT & ROAD INITIATIVE?
By Maxilian MAYER, Gedaliah AFTERMAN, and Narayanappa JANARDHAN
Responsible Statecraft
29 September 2023
GEOSTRATEGIC DECOUPLING: HOW US-CHINA RIVALRY IS SHAPING A NEW INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR
By Steve ROLF and Seth SCHINDLER
SCWO Dispatches
14 April 2023
THE EMERGENT MULTIPOLAR ORDER: THE G2, "‘BRIS’ AND GLOBAL CHINA
By Seth SCHINDLER
SCWO Dispatches
12 December 2022
WHAT WOULD JULIUS NYERERE THINK ABOUT CWII?
By Gilead TERI & Seth SCHINDLER
SCWO Dispatches
17 November 2022
WHERE ARE WE HEADING? EINE JUNGE PERSPEKTIVE
By Lukas Hochscheidt, Leonie Hopgood, Philip Nock, Frederik Schmitz, Maximilian Schranner
49Security
2022
By Philip NOCK & Maximilian SCHRANNER
Summer of Security
2022
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