Category: Prose
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The U.S. Is Dumping More than Tariffs on Mexico
The looming Trump tariffs, to be levied this Saturday, will complete a neoliberal hat trick of unfair trade policies by the U.S. toward Mexico. Nowhere is that hypocrisy plainer than in the corn market—where cheap imports of the staple crop routinely undermine Mexican farmers and biodiversity. In December, a USMCA dispute panel ruled in favor…
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The Ruin and Renewal of Mexican Economic Nationalism
With Mexican president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum’s recent victory all over recent press, many are remarking on the continued surge of left-wing politics below the U.S. southern border. Sheinbaum is predicted to expand on several policies implemented by her predecessor and confrère Andrés López Manuel Obrador, including those associated with a loose programme of economic nationalism. I…
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The US Stake in a BRICS+ Order
Toward the end of last year, I contributed to a roundtable discussion on BRICS (BRICS+ since expansion) within the latest magazine issue of Hemispheres—published for the first time this past winter. I provide an overview of how the intergovernmental economic forum known as BRICS came into being after the Great Recession, in reaction to the…
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Embeddedness in Liberalizing Egypt: A Conversation with Amr Adly
Last winter, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Amr Adly—an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the American University in Cairo—about his book Cleft Capitalism, Egypt’s liberalization reforms (infitāḥ) since the 1970s, and sociological analysis in economics. This interview was published in vol. 46 of Hemispheres, an undergraduate journal at Tufts…
Stewart A. L. James 