Beyond Neoliberalism: Global South Perspectives Short Articles
Overview
Beyond Neoliberalism: Global South Perspectives is the Pathways Beyond Neoliberalism: Voices from MENA project’s short articles dedicated to providing articles showcasing the project’s core themes, ideas, and research. It brings together a wide range of thinkers from academia and practice with the aim of sparking conversations and putting forward new ideas.
The New Gaza: How Is “Reconstruction” Being Used as a Tool of Spatial Genocide?
The concept of “spaciocide” provides an interpretive lens concerning the nature of the relationship between the goals of a genocidal war and its reconstruction process in its neoliberal form. Spaciocide targets the physical space inhabited by the Palestinian people to make “voluntary transfer” inevitable, writes researcher Zain Mohammed Hassan.
August 2026
Critique of the Neoliberal Development Model from a Dependency Theory Perspective
The neoliberal development model has failed to overcome structural inequalities and deepened dependency and social stratification, reinforcing the dominance of global capital over national economies, writes PhD candidate Natalie Salameh.
December 2025
The Riddle of Neoliberal Humanitarianism: Humanitarianism for Whom?
Neoliberal policies and norms exclude the Global South from the global humanitarian architecture, turning humanitarian action into business and framing affected populations as tools for enhanced competitive advantage, writes researcher Manoug Antaby.
December 2025
MENA’s Circular Future: Reinventing Trade and Value Beyond Neoliberalism
The MENA region is gradually shifting away from neoliberal trade models of short-term growth and international dependence and instead embracing a circular economy model promoting sustainable economic growth, writes development economist Marina Ehab.
December 2025
Bill Gates—like Keynes— is Wrong: AI Won’t Make People Work Less
While advances in artificial intelligence hold the promise of leaps in human welfare, optimism in technological advancement is unjustified without a serious examination of the structural issues of economic distribution, writes editor Omar Auf.
December 2025
Three Perspectives of BRICS Analysis: A Suggested Methodology
There are three dimensions through which BRICS countries can be analyzed: top-down, intra-BRICS, and relational, writes international relations professor Ana Garcia.
August 2024
Social Capital and Neoliberal Solidarity: Romancing the Market and Marketizing the Social
While the concept of social capital may enrich collective action, scholars should be careful not to emphasize state withdrawal from the economy in favor of neoliberal fundamentalism, writes researcher and professor Mohamed Gamal Ali.
December 2024
Neoliberalism and Civil Society: Removing the Mobilizing Power of the Concept
Neoliberal policies in the MENA region include a wide range of policies, rules, and practices aimed at benefiting from the work of civil society organizations, writes researcher and political science professor Mohamed Gamal Ali.
December 2024
Cooperatives: A Potential Pathway Beyond Neoliberal Policies or an Arena that has not been Spared the Influence of Neoliberalism?
The revival of socialist cooperatives might be an alternative path for collective action beyond neoliberalism, writes researcher and political science professor Mohamed Gamal Ali.
December 2024