Ian Maclay
@ian-maclay.bsky.social
Political Science major at Georgia State University | interested in China-Global South IPE, Development, Green Industrial Policy, State Capitalism, Regional Integration & BRI
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Connectivity of ECOWAS member states to the global economy has been improved through the Belt and Road Initiative, however, it has not further advanced regional ECOWAS integration. This risks debt imbalances, duplication and political fragmentation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Which way ECOWAS? China’s Belt and Road Initiatives and regional economic integration in West Africa
This study critically examined the implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for economic regionalism in West Africa. Despite increasing BRI engagements in West Africa, the alignment o...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Connectivity of ECOWAS member states to the global economy has been improved through the Belt and Road Initiative, however, it has not further advanced regional ECOWAS integration. This risks debt imbalances, duplication and political fragmentation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Check out Ellen Li's great profile of the Saysetta SEZ near Vientiane, Laos! It built on my visit (@profjulietlu.bsky.social) w Tyler Harlan & Nicholas Bosoni. Thanks to @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social and @globalchinamap.bsky.social for support! @ellenlhl.bsky.social
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Vientiane Saysettha Development Zone - The People's Map of Global China
The Vientiane Saysettha Development Zone (SDZ) is China’s only national-level overseas economic and trade cooperation zone in Laos. Established through a ‘land-for-funding’ arrangement, it was develop...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Check out Ellen Li's great profile of the Saysetta SEZ near Vientiane, Laos! It built on my visit (@profjulietlu.bsky.social) w Tyler Harlan & Nicholas Bosoni. Thanks to @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social and @globalchinamap.bsky.social for support! @ellenlhl.bsky.social
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Connectivity of ECOWAS member states to the global economy has been improved through the Belt and Road Initiative, however, it has not further advanced regional ECOWAS integration. This risks debt imbalances, duplication and political fragmentation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Which way ECOWAS? China’s Belt and Road Initiatives and regional economic integration in West Africa
This study critically examined the implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for economic regionalism in West Africa. Despite increasing BRI engagements in West Africa, the alignment o...
www.tandfonline.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Connectivity of ECOWAS member states to the global economy has been improved through the Belt and Road Initiative, however, it has not further advanced regional ECOWAS integration. This risks debt imbalances, duplication and political fragmentation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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@mazzucatom.bsky.social & her co-author Lorenza Monaco build on Mazzucato’s past work on the entrepreneurial state by addressing the challenges and opportunities countries in the Global South face when designing and implementing industrial strategy.
muse.jhu.edu/article/938579
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Project MUSE - Rethinking Industrial Strategies and the State: A Global South Perspective
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December 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
@mazzucatom.bsky.social & her co-author Lorenza Monaco build on Mazzucato’s past work on the entrepreneurial state by addressing the challenges and opportunities countries in the Global South face when designing and implementing industrial strategy.
muse.jhu.edu/article/938579
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muse.jhu.edu/article/938579
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@mazzucatom.bsky.social & her co-author Lorenza Monaco build on Mazzucato’s past work on the entrepreneurial state by addressing the challenges and opportunities countries in the Global South face when designing and implementing industrial strategy.
muse.jhu.edu/article/938579
1/12
muse.jhu.edu/article/938579
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Project MUSE - Rethinking Industrial Strategies and the State: A Global South Perspective
muse.jhu.edu
December 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
@mazzucatom.bsky.social & her co-author Lorenza Monaco build on Mazzucato’s past work on the entrepreneurial state by addressing the challenges and opportunities countries in the Global South face when designing and implementing industrial strategy.
muse.jhu.edu/article/938579
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muse.jhu.edu/article/938579
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William Vogt, Guilan Moghaddam & Robert Chong briefly overview China’s BRI investments in Brazil through their Digital Silk Road (DSR), how Sino-Brazilian relations are an understandable developmental fit and where this partnership may be heading.
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Brazil in the Belt and Road Initiative and Digital Silk Road | Observa China 观中国
Fourth article in the series Chinese Technological Investment in Portuguese-speaking Countries
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December 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
William Vogt, Guilan Moghaddam & Robert Chong briefly overview China’s BRI investments in Brazil through their Digital Silk Road (DSR), how Sino-Brazilian relations are an understandable developmental fit and where this partnership may be heading.
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Brice Tseen Fu Lee, Ignacio Vicuña Betancourt, Juan Pablo Sims, Linh DieuDinh & Yun-Tso Lee ask: Between China’s BRI & the EUs Global Gateway initiative, which strategic approach is more effective for gaining legitimacy and influence in Southeast Asia?
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Brice Tseen Fu Lee, Ignacio Vicuña Betancourt, Juan Pablo Sims, Linh DieuDinh & Yun-Tso Lee ask: Between China’s BRI & the EUs Global Gateway initiative, which strategic approach is more effective for gaining legitimacy and influence in Southeast Asia?
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Logistics: containers, cargoes, ports and military bases: the sinews of war and trade, binding our world under capital; and the consequences.
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social discusses her research and writing.
Highly recommend both book and podcast.
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@lalehkhalili.bsky.social discusses her research and writing.
Highly recommend both book and podcast.
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The Political Economy of Global Shipping with Laleh Khalili
Podcast Episode · Return to Bandung · 26/11/2025 · 1h 14m
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November 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Logistics: containers, cargoes, ports and military bases: the sinews of war and trade, binding our world under capital; and the consequences.
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social discusses her research and writing.
Highly recommend both book and podcast.
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@lalehkhalili.bsky.social discusses her research and writing.
Highly recommend both book and podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
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“Boundary maintenance between the haves and the have nots is why the conceptualization of the Global North as the walled world has resonance in an era in which migration is a major, politicized issue.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“Boundary maintenance between the haves and the have nots is why the conceptualization of the Global North as the walled world has resonance in an era in which migration is a major, politicized issue.
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New free open source book by Nicholas Lees examining the terminology used to address the most consequential global divide since the end of the Cold War.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
New free open source book by Nicholas Lees examining the terminology used to address the most consequential global divide since the end of the Cold War.
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Shenzhen continuing its streak as a leader in regional integration.
“Against a backdrop of slowing global growth and rising protectionism, China and ASEAN countries are strengthening economic integration and have been each other's largest trading partners for five consecutive years”
“Against a backdrop of slowing global growth and rising protectionism, China and ASEAN countries are strengthening economic integration and have been each other's largest trading partners for five consecutive years”
China-Asean innovation base launched to boost collaboration in emerging industries – Xinhua: ‘The first four demonstration bases will be established in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur’
China-ASEAN innovation base launched to boost collaboration in emerging industries
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November 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Shenzhen continuing its streak as a leader in regional integration.
“Against a backdrop of slowing global growth and rising protectionism, China and ASEAN countries are strengthening economic integration and have been each other's largest trading partners for five consecutive years”
“Against a backdrop of slowing global growth and rising protectionism, China and ASEAN countries are strengthening economic integration and have been each other's largest trading partners for five consecutive years”
In their recent, important paper, Hui Li, Wenzhuo Lu, Aoxin Wang & Xiaochen Xie assess the global welfare impact of China’s rise from 1979-2019, using trade data they project possible future impact China could have on welfare globally.
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China’s technological rise and its global welfare effects
This paper examines how China’s technological progress has evolved since 1979 and its impact on global welfare. Using a multi-country Ricardian trade …
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November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
In their recent, important paper, Hui Li, Wenzhuo Lu, Aoxin Wang & Xiaochen Xie assess the global welfare impact of China’s rise from 1979-2019, using trade data they project possible future impact China could have on welfare globally.
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Assessing Malaysia & the Philippines through a neoclassical IR lens, Mohid Iftikhar considers the conditions for SE Asian states to accept & successfully implement BRI investment in infrastructure projects.
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Regional security structure and domestic political economy interests: Comparative analysis of belt and road initiative investments in the Philippines and Malaysia
Why do regional states respond to BRI, especially when established financing mechanisms are in place? Second, what pathways shape the success and fail…
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November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Assessing Malaysia & the Philippines through a neoclassical IR lens, Mohid Iftikhar considers the conditions for SE Asian states to accept & successfully implement BRI investment in infrastructure projects.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Assessing Malaysia & the Philippines through a neoclassical IR lens, Mohid Iftikhar considers the conditions for SE Asian states to accept & successfully implement BRI investment in infrastructure projects.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Regional security structure and domestic political economy interests: Comparative analysis of belt and road initiative investments in the Philippines and Malaysia
Why do regional states respond to BRI, especially when established financing mechanisms are in place? Second, what pathways shape the success and fail…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Assessing Malaysia & the Philippines through a neoclassical IR lens, Mohid Iftikhar considers the conditions for SE Asian states to accept & successfully implement BRI investment in infrastructure projects.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Maria Ghayas and Waqas Kamal assess the opportunities and challenges of the BRI initiated CPEC in Pakistan’s Sindh region and what that might mean for Karachi.
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CHINA-PAKISTAN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR (CPEC): A REVIEW ON OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR SINDH’S LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORT ECONOMY
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November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Maria Ghayas and Waqas Kamal assess the opportunities and challenges of the BRI initiated CPEC in Pakistan’s Sindh region and what that might mean for Karachi.
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Tim Page examines the capacity for trade unions to inform and shape industrial policy. Using a varieties of capitalism approach, he concludes that, like the state, unions are capable of distorting & shaping markets toward more socially desirable ends.
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The role of trade unions as experts in the industrial policy process: maximising the opportunity
A lively debate about the role of the state in economic affairs has existed since pre-capitalist times. This paper considers: the role of market and state under three different varieties of capital...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Tim Page examines the capacity for trade unions to inform and shape industrial policy. Using a varieties of capitalism approach, he concludes that, like the state, unions are capable of distorting & shaping markets toward more socially desirable ends.
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This Yglesias quote is so bafflingly wrong that it's hard to believe people voluntarily pay for his thoughts on American politics.
I don't think this is a correct description of America's party system.
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This Yglesias quote is so bafflingly wrong that it's hard to believe people voluntarily pay for his thoughts on American politics.
In their 2018 paper, Jesse Salah Ovadia & Christina Wolf consider the applicability of “the East Asian Model” (EAM) of development for developing countries in Africa.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In their 2018 paper, Jesse Salah Ovadia & Christina Wolf consider the applicability of “the East Asian Model” (EAM) of development for developing countries in Africa.
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you’ll never believe the newest meme pair for “Find someone who looks at you like…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
you’ll never believe the newest meme pair for “Find someone who looks at you like…”
Alex Dupuy & Barry Truchil critically examine definitions and examples of state capitalism (in third world, advanced and socialist settings) to evaluate if it is helpful as a descriptive category in comparative political economy.
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Problems in the theory of state capitalism - Theory and Society
Our analysis has focused on the concept of state capitalism as applied by its various proponents to the Third World and advanced capitalist countries as well as the socialist countries. This concept w...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Alex Dupuy & Barry Truchil critically examine definitions and examples of state capitalism (in third world, advanced and socialist settings) to evaluate if it is helpful as a descriptive category in comparative political economy.
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By examining investment patterns in SOEs during election years, Qingyuan Li, Chen Lin, Li Xu build on political business cycle theories as well as broader literature about the inefficiency of state owned firms relative to privately owned firms.
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Political Investment Cycles of State-Owned Enterprises
Abstract. Using a large panel of more than 140,000 state-owned enterprises (SOEs), this study examines SOEs’ investment behavior surrounding 82 national el
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November 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
By examining investment patterns in SOEs during election years, Qingyuan Li, Chen Lin, Li Xu build on political business cycle theories as well as broader literature about the inefficiency of state owned firms relative to privately owned firms.
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🚨New Publication 🚨 in New Political Economy with the one and only@mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. We propose the term 'Green Financial Planning' to tie together many of the terms in political economy at the moment, and demonstrate that green finance is much more than a few loans/bonds with green names
New article out in New Political Economy! My co-author,
@james7jackson.bsky.social, and I propose the concept of 'green financial planning' to capture how the Paris Agreement presents a state-capital relationship around planning.
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@james7jackson.bsky.social, and I propose the concept of 'green financial planning' to capture how the Paris Agreement presents a state-capital relationship around planning.
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Green financial planning: a state-capital relationship meta-governed through the Paris agreement
The political economy literature has witnessed a proliferation of ‘green’ interpretations of long-standing analytical subjects in recent years. This includes green industrial policy, green macrofin...
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June 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🚨New Publication 🚨 in New Political Economy with the one and only@mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. We propose the term 'Green Financial Planning' to tie together many of the terms in political economy at the moment, and demonstrate that green finance is much more than a few loans/bonds with green names
The overall impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on firm performance has been widely studied, but Cuong Sy Vu, Quang Anh Nguyen and Hoa Thi Thanh Pham consider what firm ownership structure might mean for firm resilience in their recent paper. 1/6
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The COVID-19 pandemic, ownership structure, and firm performance: New evidence from Vietnamese listed firms
This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on firm performance, emphasizing the moderating role of ownership structure among non-financia…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The overall impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on firm performance has been widely studied, but Cuong Sy Vu, Quang Anh Nguyen and Hoa Thi Thanh Pham consider what firm ownership structure might mean for firm resilience in their recent paper. 1/6
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Raya Kanazireva offers a comparative analysis of a handful of case-study countries with varying degrees of state-led & market driven entrepreneurialism.
Her paper asks a range of questions examining impact of SOEs on economic growth & innovation. 1/7
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Her paper asks a range of questions examining impact of SOEs on economic growth & innovation. 1/7
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Public Sector Entrepreneurship and the Role of SOEs:...
Public sector entrepreneurship (PSE) has a significant impact on economic development, innovation and governance across different economies....
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November 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Raya Kanazireva offers a comparative analysis of a handful of case-study countries with varying degrees of state-led & market driven entrepreneurialism.
Her paper asks a range of questions examining impact of SOEs on economic growth & innovation. 1/7
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Her paper asks a range of questions examining impact of SOEs on economic growth & innovation. 1/7
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