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🇵🇸 Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Stop the genocide

 

In solidarity with the Palestinian people

 

Explore our content to learn, amplify, and take action for justice in Palestine.

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Palestine Liberation series

Palestine topic

  • Framing Palestine Israel, the Gulf states, and American power in the Middle East

    • Middle East and North Africa
    • Palestine
    Longread by
    Adam Hanieh

  • The circus of academic complicity A tragicomic spectacle of evasion on the world stage of genocide

    • Palestine
    • Pacification and Resistance
    Longread by
    Gert Van Hecken

  • Sustainability fantasies/genocidal realities Palestine against an eco-apartheid world

    • Palestine
    • Middle East and North Africa
    Longread by
    • Vijay Kolinjivadi
    • Asmaa Ashraf

  • Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine Passing on the torch of the anti-colonial struggle

    • Palestine
    • Middle East and North Africa
    Longread by
    Hamza Hamouchene

  • From Global Anti-Imperialism to the Dandelion Fighters China’s Solidarity with Palestine from 1950 to 2024

    • Palestine
    • China
    Longread by
    Zhang Sheng

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Myanmar in Crisis: A Nation Trapped in a Disaster Loop

Spotlight on Myanmar

As Myanmar reels from yet another catastrophe, the military regime’s rare plea for international aid is met with deep skepticism. With over four million displaced, ongoing resistance, and relentless attacks on civilians, the people of Myanmar find themselves abandoned, left to survive on their own. Meanwhile, global powers weigh their interests, and the military continues its stranglehold on humanitarian relief.

What does this mean for Myanmar’s future? And is there any hope amid the chaos? Read the latest on Myanmar’s unfolding crisis.

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Transnational Institute

About the Institute

Putting ideas into movement since 1974

The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic, and sustainable planet. For over 50 years, TNI has served as a unique nexus between social movements, engaged scholars, and policymakers.

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TNI has a proud history of being at the cutting edge of analysis, research and activism on critical global issues.

  • Care, public services and the importance of integrated local public ownership

    • Democratic Public Services
    • Remunicipalisation
    Policy briefing by
    • Bethia Pearson
    • Lavinia Steinfort
    • Jerry van den Berge
    • Andrew Cumbers
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  • The Financialisation of International Investment Law The landscape of financial profiteering from investor-state dispute settlement claims

    • Investment Protection
    • Finance
    Report by
    Salvador Klarwein
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  • Geopolitics of Capitalism State of Power 2025

    State of Power
    Online report by
    • Nick Buxton
    • Adam Tooze
    • Walden Bello
    • Ilias Alami
    • Jessica DiCarlo
    • Steve Rolf
    • Seth Schindler
    • Tica Font
    • Rafeef Ziadah
    • Ana Garcia
    • Sean Kenji Starrs
    • Benjamin Wray
    • Husam Mahjoub
    • Juan Lovera
    • Iqra Anugrah
    • Kai-Hsin Hung
    • Shehzil Malik
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  • Border Imperialism in the Maghreb Violence, Exploitation, Accumulation and Resistance

    Border Wars
    Report by
    Corinna Mullin
    Border imperialism in the Maghreb

  • Reclaiming Energy Public pathways to break the fossil fuel cycle

    • Energy Democracy
    • Just Transition
    • Democratic Public Services
    Report by
    • Lavinia Steinfort
    • Rowan Mataram
    • James Angel
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Podcasts

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Let us introduce you to some of the fascinating people we work with to help you make sense of the world’s most complex challenges. 

  • A Fractured World Reflections on Power, Polarity and Polycrisis

    State of Power
    Podcast by
    • Adam Tooze
    • Walden Bello
    • Nick Buxton

  • History in Action - Part 1 1970-1990 - A counter history by the Transnational Institute

    History
    Podcast by
    • Susan George
    • Peter Weiss
    • Cora Weiss
    • John Cavanagh
    • Achin Vanaik
    • Anthony Barnett
    • Susan Buck-Morss
    • Ariane van Buren
    • Manuel Pérez-Rocha
    • John Berger
    • Isabel Letelier
    • Orlando Letelier
    • Eqbal Ahmad
    • Basker Vashee
    • Fred Halliday
    • Shaun Matsheza
    • Denis Burke
    • Daria Gorshenina

  • History in Action - Part 2 1990-2000 - A counter history by the Transnational Institute

    History
    Podcast by
    • Susan George
    • Hilary Wainwright
    • Walden Bello
    • Martin Jelsma
    • Gonzalo Berrón
    • John Cavanagh
    • Achin Vanaik
    • Lyda Fernanda Forero
    • Manuel Pérez-Rocha
    • Jun Borras
    • Fiona Dove
    • John Berger
    • Isabel Letelier
    • Orlando Letelier
    • Eqbal Ahmad
    • Basker Vashee
    • Fred Halliday

  • History in Action - Part 3 2000-2008 - A counter history by the Transnational Institute

    History
    Podcast by
    • Arun Kundnani
    • Lyda Fernanda Forero
    • Jun Borras
    • Walden Bello
    • Dorothy Grace Guerrero
    • Fiona Dove
    • Howard Wachtel
    • Brid Brennan
    • Satoko Kishimoto
    • Fred Halliday

  • History in Action - Part 4 2008-2020 - A counter history by the Transnational Institute

    History
    Podcast by
    • Walden Bello
    • Sol Trumbo Vila
    • Niamh Ní Bhriain
    • Achin Vanaik
    • Dorothy Grace Guerrero
    • Lucía Bárcena
    • Martin Jelsma
    • Susan George
    • Howard Wachtel
    • Brid Brennan

Longreads

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In-depth analysis and essays on a variety of interesting topics.

  • The circus of academic complicity A tragicomic spectacle of evasion on the world stage of genocide

    • Palestine
    • Pacification and Resistance
    Longread by
    Gert Van Hecken

  • From Global Anti-Imperialism to the Dandelion Fighters China’s Solidarity with Palestine from 1950 to 2024

    • Palestine
    • China
    Longread by
    Zhang Sheng

  • Conflicted over Coca Issue #4: Andean-Amazonian Indigenous Peoples see promise and peril in lifting coca ban

    • Coca Leaf
    • Drug Law Reform
    Longread by
    Pien Metaal

  • Beyond the limelight Poland’s municipal self-governance for democratic public services

    • Energy Democracy
    • Democratic Public Services
    Longread by
    Borys Cieślak

  • Digging Deeper Conversations on Mining and Just Transitions

    Just Transition
    Dossier by
    • Katie Sandwell
    • Yukari Sekine

Achievements in 2023

Annual report

TNI achieved important progress in 2023 toward the equitable, democratic and peaceful world we envision. At the policy level, we celebrated more nails driven into the coffin of one of the biggest barriers to climate action – the Energy Charter Treaty and its investor protections; and put a critique of green colonialism squarely on the public agenda. We continued to publish cutting-edge analyses to challenge the growing menace of digital capitalism, and advocated for ending the moratorium on taxation of transnational e-commerce. In response to the juggernaut of militarism, with a particular focus on the endless war in Ukraine and the Israeli decimation of Palestine, we offered vitally important counter-narratives helping to shift public opinion more in favour of peace. We drew the connections between securitisation and a number of key issues, from drug policy to migration to climate change, and proposed more just and equitable approaches. With our proposals and counter-narratives, we reached impressive audiences around the world.

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