Our AUC-based program is part of a larger project involving universities in India, South Africa, Colombia, and Mexico. The AUC program focuses on the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA).
The core mission of our program is to contribute to changing the narrative of the economy in academia and policy circles, and subsequently to how the economy is related to politics, going beyond the predominant neoliberal paradigm. Conversely, we aim at depicting the theoretical contours of an alternative accumulation model that is more equitable and sustainable. The notion of an "accumulation model" we adopt, considers the production of economic value as a social process. This challenges the economistic approach to the market as an autonomous area of formally rational economic agents, which is inherent in neoclassicism and neoliberalism. The accumulation model captures the power dynamics and governance mechanisms through which public and private, socioeconomic and political, local, national, regional, and global interaction occur.. Emphasizing the processual dimension, the program aims to transcend the agency-structure dichotomy. It intends to trace the patterns of interaction through which value, embodied in goods, services, ideas and information, technology, techniques and skills, and material and social capital, is produced, exchanged, and distributed on multiple scales involving many actors.
Our ultimate goal is to formulate and communicate coherent, well-thought out, empirically informed, and theoretically based arguments that can become subject to broader public debate within MENA specifically and, in the Global South, more generally. We seek to accomplish this through rigorous academic knowledge production and dissemination, that is, cutting-edge, critical, and innovative. Such an outcome is channeled through well-established robust linkages with epistemic communities throughout the MENA and the Global South and within the public sphere.
We believe that the advancement of the project depends on drawing together academics, experts and practitioners, social activists, and public intellectuals in search of a political-economic paradigm that can replace neoliberalism. It is an extended and extensive deliberative process that should happen simultaneously among the MENA region’s civil societies and in dialogue with members of global civil society, especially from the Global South.
Our publications are academic knowledge production and research dissemination efforts aimed at changing the narrative of the economy in academia and policy circles, as well as demonstrating how the economy is moving beyond the neoliberal paradigm.
The events, which took place at Tahrir Campus and New Cairo Campus, respectively, drew a wide range of students, academics, and environmenta...
Organized its first Political Economy of the Global South( PEGS) conference.
An intensive program that convened 15 mid-career- to experienced economic journalists from across the Middle East and North African region.
For two days, participants emphasized the NIEO's relevance in addressing current economic challenges and called for collective action.
Ford Foundation attendees from five institutions from the Global South, gathered at AUC for the launching event.
Panel discussion on The Humanitarian Paradigm as a Neoliberal Technology in the context of the war on Gaza.
Mohamed Fahmy Menza, Senior Director of GAPP executive education, visited the University of the Western Cape.
The events, which took place at Tahrir Campus and New Cairo Campus, respectively, drew a wide range of students, academics, and environmenta...
Organized its first Political Economy of the Global South( PEGS) conference.
An intensive program that convened 15 mid-career- to experienced economic journalists from across the Middle East and North African region.
For two days, participants emphasized the NIEO's relevance in addressing current economic challenges and called for collective action.
Ford Foundation attendees from five institutions from the Global South, gathered at AUC for the launching event.
Panel discussion on The Humanitarian Paradigm as a Neoliberal Technology in the context of the war on Gaza.
Mohamed Fahmy Menza, Senior Director of GAPP executive education, visited the University of the Western Cape.
Know more about the project and Neoliberalism with Amr Adly, principal investigator of the project and associate professor.
Ashwani Saith, Emeritus professor at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, in conversation with Ibrahim Awad.
What are cooperatives? To what extent can it be considered an alternative path to post-neoliberalism?
Discussion is focused on the United Nations system and the role it played in developing the Arab world and; the role that Egypt played in this.
Our first PEGS conference explores the current challenges to global economic governance and the potential areas for institutional and policy changes. Governance refers to the normative, regulatory and institutional mechanisms that govern the processes, flows and transactions in the world economy.
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