Together with colleagues from the University of Bremen, our researcher Dr. Kressen Thyen has just published an article in Global… Read More »Land Conflicts and Land Meanings in Contemporary Africa
Extractivism researcher Dr. Kressen Thyen recently published a chapter in the edited volume Extractivism in the Maghreb: Class, State and… Read More »Resource Nationalism, Extractivism, and Protest in the Maghreb (2026)
Edited by Hannes Warnecke-Berger and Rachid Ouissa. Centered on Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, this book interrogates the complex entanglements between… Read More »Extractivism in the Maghreb: Class, State and Geopolitics (2026)
This Extractivism Policy Brief 09/2026 shows: The EU’s Global Gateway can be seen as a window of opportunity for the implementation of… Read More »The European Union’s Global Gateway Initiative in Brazil and Chile: Overcoming or reinforcing extractivist practices?
Our researcher Henryk Joost recently published an article titled “Global Justice in the Hydrogen Economy: A Dependency-Theoretical Perspective on the… Read More »New Publication: “Global Justice in the Hydrogen Economy: A Dependency-Theoretical Perspective on the Namibian Hydrogen Economy at the Intersection of Decarbonization, Development, and Dependency” in Forum Humangeographie.
This Extractivism Policy Brief 08/2026 shows: This Policy Brief examines how Canada’s tighter foreign investment rules (Investment Canada Act reforms) are… Read More »Securitizing Investment, Destabilizing Supply: Lessons from Canada’s Scrutiny of Chinese Capital in Argentina’s Lithium Sector
This Extractivism Policy Brief 07/2026 shows: • Renewable energy projects in contested territories reproduce colonial structures and geopolitical power relations. •… Read More »On the Role of German Corporations in Extractivist Entanglements in Western Sahara
This Extractivism Policy Brief 06/2026 shows: • The EU’s lithium strategy in Latin America is strong in diplomacy but weak in investment.… Read More »Partnership Without Stakes? Rethinking EU Leverage in Latin America’s Lithium Sector
This Extractivism Policy Brief 05/2026 shows: Morocco increasingly presents itself as a platform allowing Chinese companies to circumvent Western trade barriers, taking… Read More »Morocco at the crossroads of power: geopolitical opportunities and risks in the renewable energy transition
Our researcher, Dr. Luíza Cerioli, has recently published an article in the Geopolitics Journal entitled “Green Windows or Old Traps?… Read More »New Publication: Geopoliticization of the Energy Transition and Extractivism
