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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.

Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance analyzes how global financialized capitalism operates and reproduces itself, exploring the remarkable ability of the financial sector to maintain its dominance through even the most severe economic crises. Check out now!

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.