Rodrigo Amaral

1. 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥: 𝐒𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 (OPEN ACCESS) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Associate Editor @maxajl reflects on Syria and the role its absence plays within broader social-scientific debates around imperialism. The editorial explores the ‘mis-creation’ of the war in Syria as an object of knowledge in popular and academic social scientific production and contrasts it with documented reality concerning what occurred in Syria from 2006 to 2024 SPECIAL ISSUE (guest editors @brunohuberman and Rodrigo Augusto Duarte Amaral) 2. 𝐇𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: 𝐔𝐒 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫 (OPEN ACCESS) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… This article grounds the Special Issue’s theme and offers a comparative analysis of US imperialist strategies in Latin America and the Middle East from the nineteenth century to the post-Cold War era, drawing on a Gramscian understanding of hegemony. It examines how the US has attempted to establish and maintain hegemonic order in both regions, and how various regional sociopolitical formations have resisted these efforts. 3. 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐥 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐔𝐒 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 (@itxasdo @FundacionUc3) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 4. 𝐔𝐒-𝐋𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐥 (𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔–𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐠𝐲𝐩𝐭 (𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑–𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒) - OPEN ACCESS (@Lara_Khattab and Maria Luiza de Barros Guiguer) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 5. 𝐂𝐮𝐛𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐚: 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞, 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 (@HarryCross4) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 6. 𝐊𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐢 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐫: 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐳𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 (Eric Lob, @PIR_FIU) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 7. 𝐔𝐒 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐳𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐚 (Ferdinand Arslanian) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 8. 𝐈𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐨-𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞? 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥’𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐲, 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚 (@brunohuberman) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 9. 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚, 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: 𝐔𝐒 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 (@SonerTauscher and Yigit Cem Eskicioglu, @sakaryauni) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 10. ‘𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐞𝐳𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡 OPEN ACCESS (@karimecheaito and Adriano de Freixo) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…