A Call for Course Correction

In The Palgrave Handbook on Decolonizing International Affairs, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Sean Jacobs bring decolonial scholarship to the public sphere

For any honest student of history observing today’s global inequities, the legacies of colonialism are ubiquitous. However, just as the experiences of these legacies differ across nations, classes, and individual subjects, there are manifold theories of how colonial power structures have endured. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first post-independence president, diagnosed and ...
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A Call for Course Correction

The Silicon Empire’s Interregnum

Nick Srnicek’s new book maps an emergent form of techno-nationalism

Military and surveillance tech giant Palantir recently published an unsettling and dystopian manifesto penned by billionaire CEO Alex Karp. Karp’s 22-point document extolls American hegemony and claims that democracies need “hard power” to survive; it also treats one thing as a foregone conclusion—the militarization of artificial intelligence. “Our adversaries will ...
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The Silicon Empire’s Interregnum