Digging into Manitoba Premier Brian Palister’s promise to evaluate the return to arts investment, CBC interviewed GERG research director Alan Freeman about the economic impact of creativity. The answer is ‘a billion new dollars over the next five years – if you do it right’. The interview says why. Share and don’t miss! CBC Report …
Written by Radhika Desai Originally printed in the Winnipeg Free Press, June 30, 2016 The Brexit vote was a momentous political earthquake and the seismic shifts that caused it have been long in the making. It has ruptured so many political structures — decades and even centuries old, national and international — so deeply it …
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG) and Manchester University Press announce a new book series. It aims, inter alia, to promote ‘fresh inter- and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the most pressing new realities of the 21st century: the multipolar world and the renewed economic centrality of states in it. While multipolarity is beginning to be recognized …
On February 5, 2016 – Super Tuesday – the Geopolitical Economic Research Group hosted a panel discussion on the American elections. With the help of the moderator, Dr. Todd Scarth, the panelists shared their opinions on the election, analyzed the rise of Trump and discussed potential reverberations of the American election around the world. The …
Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013), written by Radhika Desai Geopolitical Economy radically reinterprets the historical evolution of the world order, as a multi-polar world emerges from the dust of the financial and economic crisis. Radhika Desai offers a radical critique of the theories of US hegemony, globalisation and empire which dominate …