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We live in a time of ‘late capitalism’. But what does that mean?

David Avilés Espinoza | February 2, 2023

The term “late capitalism” seems to be everywhere as a trending meme – often used as a kind of shorthand to illustrate the absurdities of certain free market economies. On Twitter, you will find the hashtags #latecapitalism (English), #tardocapitalismo (Italian), #capitalismotardio (Spanish), [...]

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Eight logics of higher education funding in Australia

Gareth Bryant | January 31, 2023

In 2023, a panel appointed by the federal government will be conducting a much-needed review of Australia’s higher education system. The recommendations of the panel, led by Professor Mary O’Kane, will feed into the Australian Universities Accord that the federal government has committed to [...]

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Why sanctions may backfire

Heribert Dieter | January 24, 2023

Immediately after Russian troops attacked Ukraine in February 2022, a group of Western countries – including the U.S., EU states, Australia, Great Britain and Japan – imposed tough sanctions against Russia. French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire announced on March 1, 2022, that [...]

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Machiavelli. Morgenthau. Weber. Marx. Foucault by Zubeda Mir

Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton | December 27, 2022

Back in 2011, with a view to engaging students through different teaching methods, we launched a poetry competition on the core MA module "Theories and Concepts in International Relations" at the University of Nottingham. After all, Roland Bleiker has himself emphasised the role of the poetic [...]

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Novel Reading in 2022

Adam David Morton | December 22, 2022

Following my annual practice, I have listed here my “novel” reading for 2022. This is a way of documenting what I get through in a year’s worth of reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling outside of my “normal” academic reading. My use of the term [...]

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The Good Hegemon

Susan Park | December 20, 2022

In 1993 the World Bank allowed people to seek recourse for harm resulting from the projects it finances in developing countries. Within a decade of the World Bank Inspection Panel, the other Multilateral Development Banks, including the World Bank Group, the Asian, African and Inter-American [...]

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What’s new in Australian Political Economy?

Frank Stilwell | December 19, 2022

The 90th issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy was published this week, at the end of a deeply troubling year – with Russia’s war on Ukraine, the emergence of strong inflationary tendencies, growing fears of economic recession, and mounting evidence of deepening climate change. [...]

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Imperialism: How Declining Currency Hegemony Leads to War

Jay Tharappel | December 13, 2022

The confusion about the term ‘imperialism’ can be resolved upon recognising that the term was originally popularised to explain warfare, but not national exploitation, whereas the subsequent evolution of the term sought to explain national exploitation, but not warfare. Therefore, the term [...]

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