In our first episode (!!!) we decided to take on a subject that everyone is talking about, whenever its online or offline: This ongoing tradewar between West and East and the apparent fall of the US as a hegemonic power.

Articles and books as references:

Adam Tooze- The Deluge about Freedom of Navigation (cfr The Atlantic article)

Meiksins Wood - Empire of Capital

Perry Anderson - Regime Change in the West

>https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/perry-anderson/regime-change-in-the-west

John Mearsheimer - The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

George Modelski - Long Cycles in World Politics

Robert Gilpin - The Political Economy of International Relations

Giorgio Schutte - The challenge to US hegemony and the Gilpin Dilemma

>https://www.scielo.br/j/rbpi/a/BVS833gs8tBWChxBn3Y6HGM/?format=pdf&lang=en

Bellamy Foster The U.S. Ruling Class and the Trump Regime

> https://monthlyreview.org/2025/04/01/the-u-s-ruling-class-and-the-trump-regime/

East Asian economic alliance against tariffs

> China, Japan, ROK economic, trade ministers pledge to ...Xinhuahttps://english.news.cn › …

Germany seizes Russian oil cargo

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-confiscates-tanker-belonging-russian-shadow-fleet-spiegel-reports-2025-03-21/

Know your enemy podcast (musk episode)

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-becoming-elon-musk-part-one/