The ‘war of position’ for hegemony in Eurasia
Liberal interregnum
The global revolt against liberalism bears the hallmarks of what Antonio Gramsci called ‘interregnum’. First of all, Brexit, Donald Trump, and the support...
Changes in the geographical structure of trade in Central Asia
In the 1980s, six former southern republics of the USSR (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), like other former Soviet republics, traded very...
Macroeconomic policies for inclusive growth in Southern countries
The idea of this project is to analyse what kind of macroeconomic policy is most conducive to growth in developing countries and to investigate...
Unravelling power and hegemony: Towards a differentiated approach
Both power and hegemony are often defined one-sidedly in terms of a particular theoretical approach. Rather than revisiting these inter-theoretical debates, this paper approaches...
The EU and hegemony: The new medievalism revisited
The European Union represents one of the most articulated and ambitious attempts to construct an international order that explicitly rejects power politics and hegemony...
Communicating ‘cyber capitalism with Chinese characteristics’
As with many characteristics of China, whether political or economic, the Chinese internet has distinctive features. China’s state-supported e-commerce mega-corporations – notably Alibaba and...
Hegemony: A conceptual and theoretical analysis
This paper provides a conceptual and theoretical analysis of the concept of hegemony in the field of International Relations. Although the concept of hegemony...
Why do some countries have more billionaires than others?
This paper will also appear as an Investment Migration Council (IMC) Working Paper
The Forbes magazine annual list of billionaires and their wealth provides enough...
Measuring the progress of societies: Alternatives to GDP
During the 1990s under the Washington Consensus, ways of measuring different dimensions of society began to be reviewed: poverty (with multiple methodologies), inequality (with...
Rethinking public ownership of capital: A new progressive view
For a long time, the post-war era in the Western world seemed to confirm the optimistic view of reformers that inclusive institutions could be...