GERG, along with the University of Winnipeg Manitoba Chair for Global Governance Studies, the University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities and Peace Alliance Winnipeg are happy to present panel discussions and lectures by three distinguished speakers, Roger Annis, Paul Kellogg, and Mahdi Nazemroata on the dangers on Western militarism and the place of NATO …
Join us at 5:00 pm on Friday, May 19, 2017 at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights for the documentary premiere of El Buen Cristiano, followed by a presentation from Director Isabel Acevedo and a reception. In 1982 José Efraín Ríos Montt, a born-again Christian, military officer and politician, led a military coup. His military …
By Alan Freeman, Chair of Trustees, The Christopher Freeman Trust, and Johan Schot, Director of Science Policy Research Unit Professor Soete will revisit SPRU work from the early 80’s conducted in the framework of the Technology and Employment (TEMPO) project, which focused on the impact of (radical) technological change on employment. The influence of this …
by Radhika Desai Observers have been collectively scratching their heads at the unfolding Trump presidency. Trump’s campaign braggadocio opposed the establishment of both parties and pointedly continued into his inauguration. However, his anti-establishmentarianism has since been thrown into question as a ‘shock and awe’ scale flurry of confusing executive orders and announcements rocks the US …
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group wishes to thank all the volunteers who helped organize the very successful inaugural GERG conference that took place in Winnipeg in September. The volunteers recently gathered for a party and received certificates for their hard work and creativity. They helped organize the conference and register delegates, took photos and videos, …
GERG Director, Radhika Desai’s, reflections on the emergence of multipolarity in the wake of the November 13 Paris attacks and the ongoing breakdown in Syria. This op-ed was published by the Valdai Discussion Club. To read the full text, CLICK HERE.
Featured in the October 2015 edition of Rethinking Marxism (vol. 27 ed. 4) is a book symposium on ‘Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization, and Empire”. The symposium editor is Serap Kayatekin. For more information, Click Here. Featured Articles: Capitalism: Multipolarity and Disintegration Richard D. Wolff Value and Method in Desai’s Geopolitical Economy David Kristjanson-Gural …
To download click here Call for Papers for One or more Panels on “Small States in a Multi-polar World” Organised by the Geopolitical Economy Research Group At the Society for Socialist Studies Conference May 31-June 3 2016 at the University of Calgary Calgary, Canada We are living in an increasingly multi-polar world in which …
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG) held an international multi-disciplinary conference on ‘From the Thirty Years’ Crisis to Multipolarity: the Geopolitical Economy of the 21st Century World’ at the University of Manitoba from September 25 to 27, 2015. The conference included 138 presenters from over 30 countries. See the Photos
This work advances geopolitical economy as a new approach to understanding the evolution of the capitalist world order and its 21st century form of multipolarity. Neither can be explained by recently dominant approaches such as U.S. hegemony or globalization: they treat the world economy as a seamless whole in which either no state matters or only one does. Geopolitical economy, …