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Call for Papers
18th Annual Forum of the World Association for Political Economy
Multipolarity in the 21st Century:
Challenges and Opportunities in Political Economy
6-8 August 2025
Yeditepe University Kayışdağı Campus, Istanbul, Turkey
The World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) is pleased to announce its annual forum, themed "Multipolarity in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities in Political Economy." We invite scholars,researchers, activists, and practitioners to submit their papers for consideration.
As the global order transitions from a unipolar to a multipolar configuration, new dynamics are emerging that reshape international relations, economic systems, and global governance structures. This year's theme aims to explore the implications of multipolarity for political economy, focusing on the diverse dimensions of power transitions, regional integration, and the reconfiguration of trade, investment, and development paradigms.
We welcome papers that address theoretical, empirical, or policy-oriented dimensions of multipolarity and its intersections with topics such as:
· The law of uneven economic development and the new patterns of international economic development.
· The rise of emerging economies and their impact on global power structures, including BRI international cooperation and BRICS development.
· The challenge to the dominance of the dollar and the creation of alternative mechanisms for international economic relations such as a new common curreny.
· The role of regional blocs and institutions in shaping multipolar governance.
· The ecological challenge and resource politics in a multipolar world.
· Shifts in labor relations and production systems under multipolarity.
· The geopolitical economy of technology and digital governance.
· Historical and theoretical insights into past transitions to multipolarity.
· New developments in left-wing international political economy theory.
· Proposing solutions to the challenges faced by global south countries in democratization, wealth distribution and people’s involvenment in governance.
· The political economy of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the prospect for full automation, and the future of surplus value exploitation.
· The social classes in world and countries within the context of digitalization and multipolarity.
· Explaining the decline of (neo)liberalism and the advent of nationalist and right-wing parties in the West and beyond within the context of multipolar world.
· Marxist Macroeconomic Modelling
· The Geopolitical Economy of 80 Years of the United Nations
Contributions that critically engage with the concept of multipolarity from a political-economy perspective, including its potential to challenge or reproduce existing inequalities and power asymmetries, and other related issues in political economy are also welcome.
We look forward to your contributions to what promises to be a vibrant and intellectually stimulating discussion on multipolarity and its implications for political economy.
Participants without submission are also welcome.
Submission Guidelines:
· Abstracts (no more than 300 words) should be submitted to http://bagevent.com/event/18thWAPE.
· Please include a brief biography (up to 150 words), highlighting your academic affiliation and key research interests.
· Papers selected for presentation will be eligible for consideration in WAPE-affiliated journals (World Review of Political Economy, International Critical Thought, World Marxist Review, The Belt and Road Initiative Quarterly - BRIQ).
Important Dates:
· Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2025
· Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2025
· Final paper submission deadline: 30 June 2025
For more information, visit www.wapeweb.org or contact us at adnanakfirat@gmail.com, ndemircan11@hotmail.com, safak.erdem.h@gmx.de, wapemember@vip.163.com.
Registration Fees:
· 150 euros: for online payment before 15 June 2025
· 200 euros: for online payment after 15 June 2025 or on-site payment
· 75 euros: reduced rate for unemployed, retired and students for online or on-site payment.
WAPE 2025 Forum Organizational Committee
Cheng Enfu, WAPE Chair, Academician of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Adnan Akfırat, WAPE Vice Chair, Chairman of the Belt and Road Initiative Quarterly-BRIQ Journal
Allen Ding, WAPE Secretary General, Chair Professor of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Efe Can Gurcan, WAPE Council Member, Visiting Scholar at London School of Economics
Deniz Tansi, Chair of Public Administration Department of Yeditepe University
International Coordinator:
Adnan Akfırat (WAPE Vice Chairman)
Allen Ding (WAPE Secretary General)
Academic Coordinator:
Efe Can Gurcan (London School of Economics)
Deputy Academic Coordinator:
Dr. Necati Demircan (Shanghai University Global Studies Institute)
Secretarial Staff:
Safak Erdem (Leibniz University Hannover)
Isikgun Akfirat (Bogazici University)
Ye Zhangxu (Shanghai University)
Tolga Disci (Bilkent University)
Chen Zijing (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
• WAPE. The World Association for Political Economy, registered in Paris, is an international academic organization founded by Marxian economists and related groups around the world. The mission of WAPE is to utilize modern Marxian economics to analyze and study the world economy, reveal its laws of development, and offer policies to promote economic and social progress on the national and global levels. The last seventeen WAPE forums were successively held at Shanghai (China), Shimane (Japan), Beijing (China), Paris (France), Suzhou (China), Amherst (USA), Mexico City (Mexico), Florianópolis (Brazil), Hanoi (Vietnam), Johannesburg (South Africa), Patiala (India), Moscow (Russia), Berlin (Germany), Winnipeg (Canada), Shanghai (China), Fuzhou (China), Athens (Greece) during 2006–2024. Participants in past WAPE forums have come from over 50 countries in Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America.
• WRPE. The World Review of Political Economy is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal of Marxian Political Economy sponsored by WAPE and published by Pluto Journals. For more information including types of submissions that will be considered, please go to http://www.plutojournals.com/wrpe/ and submit your articles to WRPE via WRPE ScholarOne Manuscripts site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wrpe.
• WAPEWEB.ORG. WAPE Secretariat is working with a team from its long-term partner Pluto Journals, publisher of WRPE, to launch its new version of WAPE website with WAPE Membership system. The team will contact our members for registration or renewal of membership with approval from and on behalf of WAPE Secretariat.
• WAPE Awards. The Distinguished Achievement Award of World Political Economy of the 21st Century, established by WAPE, has been granted annually since 2009 to recognize outstanding books or articles on political economy published since the year of 2001. It is intended to promote research of modern political economy around the world by granting this award to those who have made important innovations in the theory or methodology of political economy. The Marxian Economics Award, established by WAPE in 2011, is given to recognize an outstanding lifetime record of achievement in political economy. Its purpose is to promote the development of the research of Marxist economics around the world by granting this award to those who have made important innovations in the research of theories, methodology and application of Marxian economics. The 2025 WAPE Awards will be granted at the opening ceremony of the 18th WAPE Forum. Nominations and applications can be sent to wapemember@vip.163.com.
Marxian economists from all over the world are welcome to join WAPE and attend the forum whether or not they will present a paper. The WAPE Forums aim to encourage cooperation among Marxian economists and to enlarge and strengthen the influence of Marxian economics in the world.
The WAPE Secretariat
March 2025
