By Ouchichi Mourad. Algeria, the largest country in North Africa, is geopolitically significant due to its strategic location and natural… Read More »Political Economy of Algeria: Extractivism, Rents and Populism.
Edited By Jan Ickler and Rebeca Ramos Padrón. Recent years have seen renewed interest in elites around the world, and… Read More »The Political Economy of Elites in Latin America
Edited By Balihar Sanghera. Recent work on rent and rentierism has offered a distinctive and fresh approach to understanding and… Read More »Global Rentier Capitalism. Theory and Development.
This Extractivism Policy Brief 03/2026 shows: Latin America is one of the regions that has advanced the most in decarbonizing its energy… Read More »Challenges and opportunities of Latin American regionalism for a developmental energy transition
This Extractivism Policy Brief 02/2026 shows: Gulf capital is reshaping Maghreb extractivism: renewable megaprojects are negotiated top-down, with weak transparency and limited… Read More »Gulf-Funded Extractivism in the Maghreb: Green Transformation or Authoritarian Neoliberalism?
Figures such as Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Javier Milei in Argentina, Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, and José Antonio Kast… Read More »New Publication: “Die politische Rechte in Lateinamerika” (Eds.) Nadja Ahmad, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Prof. Dr. Kristina Dietz, Dr. Hannes Warnecke-Berger and Prof. Dr. Jonas Wolf
This Extractivism Policy Brief 01/2026 shows: Voluntary carbon credits do not provide a robust instrument for systematically financing the early retirement of coal… Read More »Unsuitable for the energy transition: Voluntary emission credits for the early decommissioning of coal-fired power plants
This Extractivism Policy Brief 08/2025 shows: • Vaca Muerta in Argentina is one of the most important reserves of non-conventional oil and… Read More »Finally milking the dead cow? – How Javier Milei plans to benefit from fracking in Argentina
This Extractivism Policy Brief 07/2025 shows: The energy transition risks reproducing old extractivist dependencies unless Global South countries actively pursue green industrial… Read More »Escaping Green Extractivism: The Role of Industrial Policy in the Energy Transition
This Extractivism Policy Brief 06/2025 shows: • During Lula’s first mandates (2003-2010), Brazil cut GHG emissions through deforestation control while pursuing growth… Read More »Brazil’s current decarbonization strategy: turning green growth into sustainable development?
