Imperialism, neocolonialism and interventionist policies

El CLACSO Working Group on Imperialism, Neocolonialism and Policies The intervention group is made up of more than 70 researchers from 23 countries. Its objective is to analyze, document, and disseminate the historical and contemporary forms of colonial and imperial intervention.

The Working Group begins with some key questions: What is imperialism today? What kind of political economy is inherent to it? Who are its main actors? What repertoires of resistance does it generate among subaltern subjects and countries? What do classical theories on imperialism, dependency, and coloniality illuminate and what do they overlook? How can we identify an attempt at "regime change" today? How does intervention mutate in times of geopolitical transition?

To address these issues, we will work around seven major intervention mechanisms: central and peripheral militarization processes, para-state and paramilitary formations, so-called "humanitarian interventionism", cognitive warfare, "lawfare", economic warfare, and the instrumentalization of political and religious groups.

We will start from the recovery of key categories of peripheral critical thought, and we will work through a comparative South-South effort, with intellectuals, communicators and social movements from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Europe.

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[+] Work plan 2026-2028