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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Chinese economy is, arguably, more imbalanced than ever. The continuous stream of facts and arguments from people like Michael Pettis and Brad Setser show this beyond any doubt. In the context of ...

This book review appeared in the Winter 1998/99 issue of The Independent Review. It is much safer for an academic to write a flawless work on a picayune topic than to explore an interesting topic and ...

Wherein lies the key to national success – across the globe? In a word, it is ‘inclusivity’ – in the view of three distinguished Nobel laureates in economics who have studied the fates of countries ...