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In 2019 TNI worked with our partners and allies to produce critical and radical analysis of key global issues. To mark the end of the year, we bring you a collection of some of our most widely read and shared work.
Dear Reader,
In 2019 TNI worked with our partners and allies to produce critical and radical analysis of key global issues. To mark the end of the year, we bring you a collection of some of our most widely read and shared work, in no special order.
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Giant corporations have taken control of our food. In the last two years, these companies have begun the process of merging and re-arranging themselves into just four colossal corporations. The larger these companies grow, the less we can control them. And the less control we have, the harder it is for us to build the kind of food system that more and more of us want: one that recognizes the value of people, respects the planet, and provides decent, dignified work. This beautifully illustrated report asks: How did this happen, and what can we do about it?
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Six key reads to help understand the rising pressure on ocean space. Oceans cover two thirds of the planet, and the struggle for control of these spaces is intensifying.
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Despite causing the worst financial crisis in decades, the financial sector emerged from 2008 even stronger. TNI's eighth flagship State of Power report examined the varied dimensions and dynamics of financial power and how popular movements might regain control over money and finance.
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The World Health Organization’s Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD or Expert Committee) released the outcomes of the first-ever critical review of cannabis in January, recommending a series of changes in the current scheduling of cannabis-related substances under the UN drug control conventions. While the recommendations contained some positive points, they also reveal problematic underlying evaluation methods and scheduling procedures, as well as a questionable rationale for keeping cannabis in Schedule I. Moreover, the recommendations leave many questions unanswered regarding levels of control for different types of medical cannabis preparations. Bonus – read the Newsweek article covering the topic.
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TNI analysed cannabis market regulation models in several European countries to allow local authorities to share best practices and improve the understanding of drug markets as a means to reduce the negative consequences of illicit drug markets on individuals and society.
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Ten investor-state lawsuits that have been filed, threatened or decided since 2015, from all over the globe demonstrate that ISDS is again and again used as a corporate weapon against the public interest. This report exposes the true nature of the ISDS regime through 10 recent stories.
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After the 2008 global financial crisis, big banks were rescued and public spending was curtailed. This justified ever harsher austerity measures and reinforced a persistent myth that the public sector must rely on private finance to solve excessive inequality and ecological destruction. The real-world examples in this book demonstrate that a political economy that curbs the power of big finance and serves people and planet is possible. The ideas shared here are timely and urgent—a call to readiness before the next financial bubble bursts. Bonus – listen to TNI researcher Lavinia Steinfort discuss Public Finance for the Future We Want on popular podcast This is Hell.
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This report exposes how the international investment regime affects African countries and found that African States had been hit by a total of 106 known investment treaty arbitration claims, representing 11% of all known investor-state disputes worldwide. Between 2013 and 2018, there was an unprecedented boom in claims against African governments.
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Launched in the House of Commons in the UK, Leaving the War on Terror offers an account of the failures of current counter-terrorism policies, an analysis of the reasons why they do not work and an outline of a progressive alternative that we hope will be the basis for a future Labour government’s approach.
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TNI continued its series of reports, examining the corporations that lobby for and profit from the building of border walls and security infrastructure. More than a wall examines the role of the world’s largest arms firms in shaping and profiting from the militarization of US borders, while the Business of building walls found that thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is divided not so much by ideology as by perceived fear of refugees and migrants, some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Bonus – Read the New York Times article citing our 2018 report on Building walls.
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This policy briefing aims to deepen discussion on the Belt and Road Iniatiative (BRI) in Myanmar. The BRI is often described as a ‘grand strategy’ led by President Xi Jinping, centrally planned and rolled out by obedient state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The sheer size of the initiative can make the BRI appear monolithic and inevitable. However, using a political economy analysis, this briefing demonstrates that the BRI is not a grand strategy, but a broad framework of activities that seek to address a crisis in Chinese capitalism. An examination of four BRI projects in Myanmar using Chinese language sources shows the extent of lobbying by Chinese SOEs and the Yunnan provincial government to promote the projects, with support from the central Chinese government.
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This long-read article explores the ways that Transnational Corporations (TNCs) have accumulated tremendous economic and political power in recent decades. Today TNCs play a vastly outsized and largely unwelcome role in the formation of the hegemonic narratives that shape our political and economic lives. As nation states’ capacities to defend the public interest have been eroded, corporate power has fewer and fewer checks on its excesses and almost no accountability for wrong doing.
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TNI's monthly podcast introduces you to some of the fascinating people we work with to help you make sense of the world’s most complex challenges. In the podcast we share our research, explore alternatives to the status quo and give a platform to scholars and activists who are at the forefront of the fight against the current neoliberal order.
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