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Under the theme: “Facing the Socio-Ecological Crisis: Delinking and the Question of Global Reparations”, the Monetary and Economic Sovereignty conference which was held between the 25-28 October 2022 attracted leading scholars across the globe to Dakar. Caroline Cornier has written a synthesis of all that was discussed and agreed.
Ghana is currently dealing with a new debt crisis that has been blamed on covid-induced spending and the fallout from the Russia-Ukraine war. Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo spoke with Lev Moscow of the A Correction podcast, arguing that the unfolding debt storm is in fact rooted in historical, systemic and structural problems.
Recently, we have introduced a new umbrella concept—international financial subordination (IFS)—to channel research efforts towards cumulative theory-building. IFS is about unearthing why the structural power of finance takes a particularly violent form of expression in Developing and Emerging Economies (DEEs). Learn more!
The struggles for global power necessitate macro-theoretical perspectives that attempt to grasp the interplay of inner-societal and world-societal processes in political-economic terms. Using two examples of German foreign policy and the history of Europe and Senegal, the article illustrates how such an analysis can be made fruitful for study of IR.
This article argues that Ghana’s recent banking sector failures and renewed debt crisis are a consequences of its uneven and deleterious integration into the global capitalist financial system, a situation that critical scholars in international political economy call international financial subordination. Learn more!
This book traces the recent history of African dependencies, looking at the ways African nations are resisting colonial legacies. It uncovers what went wrong after the Pan-African approaches that defined the early stages of independence, and how most African economies fell into the firm grip of the IMF, World Bank, and the EU’s strict neoliberal policies.
- Akolgo, I. A., 2022, “Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana”, Review of African Political Economy, DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2022.2044300
- Akolgo, I. A., 2020, “Putting orthodox economics to the sword: Franklin Obeng-Odoom’s contribution “Property, Institutions and Social Stratification in Africa.””, Journal of African Political Economy and Development, 5(1), 70-75.
- Akolgo, I. A., 2018, “Afro-euphoria: Is Ghana’s economy an exception to the growth paradox?”, Review of African Political Economy, 45(155), 146-15.
- Akolgo, I. A., 2018, “Agenda 2030 in Africa: What the Millennium Development Goals Narrative Teaches about poverty eradication”, African Review of Economics and Finance, 10(1), 3-22.
- Ben Ghada, M., Kaboub, F., Koddenbrock, K., I. Mahmoud and N. S. Sylla, 2021, “African monetary and economic sovereignty in the 21st century”, Pluto Books, London.
- Bieling, H.-J., C. Coburger and P. Klösel, 2021, “Kapitalismusanalysen. Klassische und Neue Konzeptionen der Politischen Ökonomie”, Wochenschau Verlag, UTB.
- Coburger, C. 2021, “The West African CFA Franc Zone as a Double Monetary Union: Loss of Economic Competitiveness and Anti-Developmental Path-Dependencies”, in: Gadha, M. B., F. Kaboub, K. Koddenbrock, I. Mahmoud and N. S. Sylla (Ed.) Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa, Pluto Press.
- Coburger, C., P. Klösel, 2017, “Wider das Einheitsdenken. Plädoyer für mehr Pluralismus in der Wirtschaftswissenschaft“ (English translation: Fighting Homogeneous Thinking: Plea for More Pluralism in Economics), Blätter für Deutsche und Internationale Politik 7/17, pp. 99-104.
- Cornier, C., 2021, “Territoriale Autonomie – Sackgasse oder essenzielles Mittel zum Widerstand?”, Forschungsstelle für Radikalisierung gewaltsame Konflike, Fachhochschule Erfurt, Blog Post.
- Cornier, C., 2021, “Forschen als Outsider*in: Feldforschung im globalen Süden”, Forschungsstelle für Radikalisierung gewaltsame Konflike, Fachhochschule Erfurt, Blog Post.
- Cornier, C., 2020, “Kein Frieden am Pazifik”, Jungle World, Newspaper Article.
- Cornier, C., 2019, “Letter from Tumaco: Notes from the forgotten pearl of the Pacific.”, The Bogota Post, Newspaper Article.
- Eid, H.E., 2020, “Imperialism, PPE and Pandemic: Structural Crisis of the Capialist World-System”, Master Thesis.
- Koddenbrock, Kai, 2022, Die Relevanz der deutschen Internationalen Beziehungen und die Notwendigkeit polit-ökonomischer Konfliktanalyse, In: Bergem, W. and H. Schöne (eds.) Wie relevant ist die Politikwissenschaft?, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
- Koddenbrock, K., 2020, “Hierarchical multiplicity in the international monetary system: from the slave trade to the Franc CFA in West Africa”, Globalizations, 17(3), 516-531.
- Koddenbrock, K., 2019, “Geld, Weltmarkt und monetäre Dependenz: Was uns die Franc CFA Zone über kapitalistisches Geld sagt“, PROKLA, 49 (194), 137-156.
- Koddenbrock, K., 2019, “Money and moneyness: thoughts on the nature and distributional power of the ‘backbone’ of capitalist political economy”, Journal of Cultural Economy, 12(2), 101-118.
- Koddenbrock, K., I. H. Kvangraven and N.S. Sylla, 2022, “Beyond financialization: The need for a longue durée understanding of finance in imperialism”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Online first.
- Koddenbrock, K. and N. S. Sylla, 2019, “Towards a political economy of monetary dependency: The case of the Franc CFA zone in West Africa MaxPo Discussion paper”.
- Kvangraven, I. H., K. Koddenbrock and N. S. Sylla, 2021, “Financial subordination and uneven financialisation in 21st century Africa“, Community Development, 56(1): 119-140.
- Petry J., K. Koddenbrock and A. Nölke, 2021, State capitalism and capital markets: Comparing securities exchanges in emerging markets. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Online first.
- Wang W., A. Gurgone, H. Martínez, M. C. Barbieri Góes, E. Gallo, Á. Kerényi, E. M. Turco, C. Coburger, P. D. S. Andrade, 2022. “COVID19, Mortality and Economic Losses: The Role of Policies and Structural Conditions”, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 15(8): 354.

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