Two powerful forces converged to shift global development in the last three decades from the West to the East and Asia. These same forces now make Africa the “construction site of the century. ” Africa ...

A provocative but constructive critique of the French model of technocratic, elite leadership. The author brings trenchant criticism to bear in this wide-ranging survey of the political economy of contemporary ...

Marguerite Mendell is vice-principal and associate professor at the School of Community and Public Affairs and director of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, Concordia University.

The essays in Regionalism, Multilateralism, and the Politics of
Global Trade reflect this debate and give it focus. The
contributors, all recognized experts, explore the changing relationship
between regionalism ...