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Dr. Hannes Warnecke-Berger

University of Kassel | Nora-Platiel-Straße 1 | 34127 Kassel
Room 2208
Phone: +49 561 804-2730 | Fax: +49 561 804-3464
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Dr. Hannes Warnecke-Berger

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Dr. Hannes Warnecke-Berger

Dr. Hannes Warnecke-Berger

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

University of Kassel | Nora-Platiel-Straße 1 | 34127 Kassel
Room 2208
Phone.: +49 561 804-2730 | Fax: +49 561 804-3464
Email:

Short
Biography

Dr. Hannes Warnecke-Berger is the director of the extractivism.de project. In addition to natural resource and trade policy, he works on development theory and North-South relations, global political economy, rent theories, and migration processes. He has worked intensively on the political, economic, and social role of remittances, i.e., money sent by migrants from their host societies to their home countries. He was a member of the Collaborative Research Centre 1199 “Spatialization Processes under Conditions of Globalization” at the University of Leipzig. He received his PhD from University of Leipzig in 2016 with a thesis on violence in Central America and the Caribbean. He previously studied political science, law, and sociology at the University of Leipzig and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Science Po Bordeaux. Longer field research stays took him to Central America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, the USA and France.

Short
Biography

Dr. Hannes Warnecke-Berger is the director of the extractivism.de project. In addition to natural resource and trade policy, he works on development theory and North-South relations, global political economy, rent theories, and migration processes. He has worked intensively on the political, economic, and social role of remittances, i.e., money sent by migrants from their host societies to their home countries. He was a member of the Collaborative Research Centre 1199 “Spatialization Processes under Conditions of Globalization” at the University of Leipzig. He received his PhD from University of Leipzig in 2016 with a thesis on violence in Central America and the Caribbean. He previously studied political science, law, and sociology at the University of Leipzig and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Science Po Bordeaux. Longer field research stays took him to Central America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, the USA and France.

Research Interests

  • Political Economy
  • Politics of Natural Resources and Extractivism
  • Peace, Conflict and Violence Research
  • Development Theory and Development Studies
  • North-South Relations
  • Migration

Regional Focus

  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • South-East Asia
  • West Africa
  • Europe

Recent Publications (selection)

Warnecke-Berger, H., Dietz, K., & Burchardt, H.-J. (Eds.). (2025). Grüne Energiewende in Lateinamerika. Nomos. VIEW BOOK

Warnecke-Berger, H., & Cerioli, L. (Eds.). (2024). Bringing structural analysis back in a world of pessimism: A generational conversation on class, state, and global development. Extractivism Occasional Paper.

  • Warnecke-Berger, H., & Cerioli, L. (Eds.). (2024). Bringing Heterodoxy Back Into a World of Pessimism. Extractivism Occasional Paper Series: 1/2024. Universität Kassel. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. and Ickler, J. (Ed.) (2023), The Political Economy of Extractivism. Global Perspectives on the Seduction of Rent, Routledge. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (Ed.) (2021), Development, Capitalism, and Rent: The Political Economy of Hartmut Elsenhans, Palgrave Macmillan. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2018), Politics and Violence in Central America and the Caribbean, Palgrave Macmillan. VIEW BOOK
  • Pisarz-Ramirez, G. and Warnecke-Berger, H. (Eds.) (2018), Processes of Spatialization in the Americas: Configurations and Narratives, Peter Lang. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2017). Transnational Economic Spaces, Moral Economy, and Remittances. Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
  • Huhn, S. and Warnecke-Berger, H. (Eds.) (2017), Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America, Palgrave Macmillan. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2025). Extractivismo, naturaleza y riqueza: Especialización desigual y la modernización del dominio de las élites en América Latina. In H.-J. Burchardt & I. Lungo Rodríguez (Eds.), Navegar la desigualdad: Riqueza y desarrollo en América Latina. CLACSO; CALAS. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2025). Post-fossile Zukunft: Lateinamerika zwischen Rohstoffreichtum und ungleicher Spezialisierung. In K. Dietz, H. Warnecke-Berger, & H.-J. Burchardt (Eds.), Grüne Energiewende in Lateinamerika. Nomos. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H., Dietz, K., & Burchardt, H.-J. (2025). Einleitung. In K. Dietz, H. Warnecke-Berger, & H.-J. Burchardt (Eds.), Grüne Energiewende in Lateinamerika. Nomos. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2024). Surplus, rent, and development: Raw materials and remittances as the motor of rent societies of today’s Global South. In B. Sanghera (Ed.), Global rentier capitalism: Theory, development and power. Routledge. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2024). Rohstoffe, Renten und ungleiche Spezialisierung: Über die Chancen einer neuen Weltwirtschaftsordnung. In A. Veit & D. Fuchs (Eds.), Eine gerechte Weltwirtschaftsordnung? Die »New International Economic Order« und die Zukunft der Süd-Nord-Beziehungen (pp. 317-338). transcript. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H., & Cerioli, L [Luiza]. (2024). Introduction: Bringing Heterodoxy Back into a World of Pessimism. In H. Warnecke-Berger & L. Cerioli (Eds.), Extractivism Occasional Paper Series: 1/2024. Bringing Heterodoxy Back Into a World of Pessimism (pp. 3–13). Universität Kassel. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2023). Extractivism, Nature, and Wealth: Unequal Specialization and the Modernization of Elite Rule in Latin America. In H.-J. Burchardt & I. Lungo Rodríguez (Eds.), Wealth, Development and Social Inequalities in Latin America: Transdisciplinary Insights (pp. 46–64). Routledge. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2023). Temporalities of Urban Violence: A Comparative Perspective on El Salvador and Jamaica. In M. Albrecht & A. Jenss (Eds.), The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence: Histories, Rhythms and Ruptures. Manchester University Press. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2023). Trade, Unequal Specialization, and the Persistence of Extractivism. In H. Warnecke-Berger & J. Ickler (Eds.), The Political Economy of Extractivism: Global Perspectives on the Seduction of Rent (pp. 17–41). Routledge. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. & Ickler, J. (2023). Introduction: The Political Economy of Extractivism. In H. Warnecke-Berger & J. Ickler (Eds.), The Political Economy of Extractivism: Global Perspectives on the Seduction of Rent (pp. 1–16). Routledge. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. & Ickler, J. (2023). Conclusion: Extractivism and the Seduction of Rent. In H. Warnecke-Berger & J. Ickler (Eds.), The Political Economy of Extractivism: Global Perspectives on the Seduction of Rent (pp. 215–222). Routledge. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2023). Renta y rentismo: Especialización desigual y trampa de desarrollo en América Latina. In H.-J. Burchardt, C. Gárgano, & L. G. Christel (Eds.), ¿De la sustentabilidad al desarrollo? Entre el extractivismo verde y la transformación socioambiental (pp. 91–116). CLACSO. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2021). Fixing the Labour Surplus in Existing Economic Structures. In N. Wilcock & E. Federzoni dos Santos (Eds.), Not Paying the Rent: Imagining a Fairer Capitalism (pp. 157–166). Palgrave Macmillan. VIEW BOOK
  • Burchardt, H.‑J., Dietz, K., & Warnecke-Berger, H. (2021). Dependency, Rent, and the Failure of Neo-Extractivism. In S. Palestini & A. Madariaga (Eds.), Dependent Capitalisms in Contemporary Latin America and Europe (pp. 207–229). Palgrave Macmillan. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2021). Rent, Capitalism and the Challenges of Global Uneven Development. In Warnecke-Berger, H. (Ed.). Development, Capitalism, and Rent: The Political Economy of Hartmut Elsenhans (pp. 1-17). Palgrave Macmillan. VIEW BOOK
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2020). Die Selbstreproduktion der Gewalt? Zentralamerika nach den Bürgerkriegen. In S. Peters (Ed.), Gewalt und Konfliktbearbeitung in Lateinamerika (pp. 33–52). Nomos.
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2020). Todesschwadrone, soziale Säuberungen, Polizeigewalt: Gewalt in Zentralamerika und die Rechtswende in Lateinamerika. In P. Eser & J.-H. Witthaus (Eds.), Rechtswende in Lateinamerika: Politische Pendel­bewegungen, sozio­ökonomische Umbrüche und kulturelle Imaginarien in Geschichte und Gegenwart (pp. 223–243). Mandelbaum.
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2019). The Spatial Turn and Economics: Migration, Remittances, and Transnational Economic Space. In S. Marung & M. Middell (Eds.), Spatial Formats Under the Global Condition (pp. 360–378). De Gruyter.
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2018). Salvadoran Transnational Transgressions: Remittances, Rents, and the Struggle over Economic Space. In G. Pisarz-Ramirez & H. Warnecke-Berger (Eds.), Processes of Spatialization in the Americas: Configurations and Narratives (pp. 219–242). Peter Lang.
  • Warnecke-Berger, H., & Pisarz-Ramirez, G. (2018). Introduction: Spatialization Processes in the Americas: Configurations and Narratives. In G. Pisarz-Ramirez & H. Warnecke-Berger (Eds.), Processes of Spatialization in the Americas: Configurations and Narratives (pp. 9–28). Peter Lang.
  • Warnecke-Berger, H., & Cerioli, L. (2025). Extractivism and international studies. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. VIEW ARTICLE 

  • Warnecke-Berger, H., & Ickler, J. (2025). The political economy of extractivism. Exploring Economics. VIEW ARTICLE

  • Warnecke-Berger, H., & Burchardt, H.‑J. Zu reich für die Energiewende? WeltSichten: Magazin Für Globale Entwicklung Und Ökumenische Zusammenarbeit, 2024(3). VIEW ARTICLE
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2024). Wohlstand für alle oder neofeudale Dystopie? Lateinamerikas Weg in ein postfossiles Energiezeitalter. Ila: Das Lateinamerika Magazin, 4(475), 10–12. VIEW ARTICLE
  • Warnecke-Berger, H.; Burchardt, H.-J. & Dietz, K. (2023). The Failure of (Neo-)Extractivism in Latin America – Explanations and Future Challenges. Third World Quarterly, 44(8), 1825–1843. VIEW ARTICLE
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2023). Auf dem Weg zur neofeudalen Dystopie? Für Lateinamerika wird eine neue Ära der Rohstoffexporte anbrechen, die Gefahr einer vertieften ungleichen Spezialisierung ist groß. Maldekstra(19), 8. VIEW ARTICLE
  • Warnecke-Berger, H., Burchardt, H.‑J., & Ouaissa, R. (2022). Natural Resources, Raw Materials, and Extractivism: The Dark Side of Sustainability. Extractivism Policy Brief: 1/2022. University of Kassel; Philipps-University of Marburg.  VIEW ARTICLE
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2022): Rents, the Moral Economy of Remittances, and the Rise of a New Transnational Development Model. Révue de la Régulation, 31 (2). 10.4000/regulation.20809. VIEW ARTICLE
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2021): Das Geschäft mit der Angst. Zur politischen Ökonomie der Jugendgangs in Zentralamerika. Soziopolis.VIEW ARTICLE
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2021): The Financialization of Remittances and the Individualization of Development: A New Power Geometry of Global Development. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.VIEW ARTICLE
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2021): Dynamics of Global Asymmetries: How Migrant Remittances (Re-)Shape North-South Relations. Third World Quarterly, 42(11), 2767–2784. VIEW ARTICLE
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2020): Capitalism, Rents and the Transformation of Violence. International Studies, 57(2), 111–131. VIEW ARTICLE
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2020): Remittances, the Rescaling of Social Conflicts, and the Stasis of Elite Rule in El Salvador. Latin American Perspectives, 47(3), 202–220. VIEW ARTICLE
  • Warnecke-Berger, H., & Elsenhans, H. (2019): Higher Wages Can Save the Eurozone. International Politics and Society. VIEW ARTICLE
  • Warnecke-Berger, H. (2018): La globalisation de la rente et la montée de la violence. Naqd: Revue D’études Et De Critique Sociale (36), 171–182.