Aaron Jakes – Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism
ICI Faculty Associate Aaron Jakes will launch his new book on MONDAY NOVEMBER 9 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm EST, followed by a roundtable with Professors Benoit [...]
A Tale of Two Epidemics: Mumbai, Bubonic Plague and COVID-19
Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History at the University of Leicester, on the continuities and disjunctions between responses to the 1896 bubonic plague and COVID-19 in Mumbai, India.
Min Ye – The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998-2018
Mark Frazier recently interviewed Min Ye on the publication of her new book, The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998-2018 (Cambridge University [...]
The Looming Developing Country Debt Crisis and the Fear of Imposed Austerity
The pandemic has plunged developing countries deeper into debt. Barry Herman, Visiting Scholar at The New School, assesses the options available to them.
China: Globalization and “Middle Politics” After COVID-19
Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University, unpacks what the policy discourse of Chinese analysts and opinion leaders says about the trajectory of post-pandemic globalization in China.
Where Is the Risk in the COVID Economy?
The pandemic has not been a crisis that has brought finance to a standstill. To the contrary, it has opened up new opportunities for the extension and intensification of certain financial practices, write Janet Roitman and Andrew Moon of The New School
Iran: The Double Jeopardy of Sanctions and COVID-19
Djavad Salehi‐Isfahani, Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, on how US sanctions have aggravated Iran's COVID-19 crisis.
New article, film, and recognition for ICI Fellow Joe Thomas Karackattu
Congratulations to Joe Thomas Karackattu, ICI Fellow ( 2017-2019), and Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at IIT Madras, who has a [...]
COVID-19 and Challenges to Teacher Education in Rural Ghana
The coronavirus shutdown in Ghana exposes the weaknesses and inequities in the country’s education system, writes Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Assistant Professor of Global Media Industries, University of Georgia.