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INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC THINKING IN AFRICA
This site features research on International Economic Thinking in Africa. It is curated by ECOINT-Associate Dr Geraldine Sibanda (University of the Free State, South Africa).


Philippe de Seyne’s international world-making: globalism, the management of interdependence and the disciplining of the planetary
A Working Paper by Sabine Selchow | 2026


Maurice Strong as a distinct epistemic actor: a new perspective on his international influence
A Working Paper by Sabine Selchow | 2026


Hybrid international actors and legitimacy in global governance : the strategies of retrospective self-legitimation of Maurice Strong
A Working Paper by Sabine Selchow | 2026


Modeling the world economy : Guy Orcutt and the forgotten origins of economic research at the World Bank
A Working Paper by Mirek Tobiáš Hošman | 2026


Wou Sao-fong and ‘Planetary Civilisation’
A Working Paper by Ken Yang | 2026


A Conversation with Katherine Marshall
By Geraldine Sibanda and Mirek Tobiáš Hošman | 2026


Profile of Andrew M. Kamarck (1914–2010)
Written by Mirek Tobiáš Hošman | 2026


Understandings of ‘rationalisation’ at the World Economic Conference 1927: a Systematic Overview
A Working Paper by Sabine Selchow | 2026


The construction of international order in the 1930s: polyphony of technocracy in McDougall’s ‘Economic appeasement’ (1936)
A Working Paper by Sabine Selchow | 2026


Participants of the World Economic Conference 1927
A database by Sabine Selchow | 2026


"Meet a Historian"
A podcast series in collaboration with CAPASIA | 2025-26


Great Britain's Exports in the 1920s
A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025


Who negotiated the international order in the first half of the 20th century?
A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025


Oil: U.S. Total Production, Imports and Annual New Supply (1918-1943)
A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025


Mineral/natural resources in ‘Asia and theFar East’, and the legacies of empire in a shifting international order, 1947-1974
A Working Paper by Glenda Sluga | 2025


Who participated in the Monetary and Economic Conference (1933)?
A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025


Growth of Expenditure within the UN System (1950-1975)
A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025


UN ESCAP Membership (1947-2025)
A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025


The Committees of the League of Nations (1939)
A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025


Podcast: Decolonisation through Archives
Featuring Glenda Sluga | 2025


Profile of Eleanor Hinder (1893–1963)
Written by Glenda Sluga | 2025


Who was debating Multinationals in the 1970s?
A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025


Profile of Ester Boserup (1910-1999)
Written by Sabine Selchow | 2025


ECOSOC in Motion: A Visual Timeline of Its Institutional Bodies (1946–2025)
A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025


From Fidel Castro to Shirley MacLaine: Maurice Strong's Network
A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025


Profile of Aurelio Peccei (1908-1984)
Written by Glenda Sluga | 2025


Maurice Strong's network: a structured database of individuals referenced in his autobiography
A dataset established by Sabine Selchow | 2025


Congratulations to Dr Guilherme Sampaio
2-year-postdoc fellowship at MaCI, University of Grenoble


UN Membership (1945–1977)
A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025


Profile of Kenneth K. S Dadzie
Written by Geraldine Sibanda | 2025


Glenda Sluga on women's roles in the history of globalisation
#EUIResearch interview with Glenda Sluga | 2025


Profile of Bernard Thomas Gibson Chidzero
Written by Geraldine Sibanda | 2025


The UN Economic and Social Council’s initiative on multinational corporations (1972-1974): a Primer
Written by Sabine Selchow


The 'Consumer-Minded' economist : Persia Campbell and consumerist developmentalism
A Working Paper by Yves Rees | 2025


Multinational Corporations in World Development (1973): Network of UN Resolutions
A dataset established by Sabine Selchow | 2025


The Language of the World Development Reports, 1978-2021: Term Frequency Dataset
A dataset established by Sabine Selchow | 2025


Profile of Angie Elizabeth Brooks Randolph
Written by Geraldine Sibanda | 2024


US Multinationals: R&D expenditure in manufacturing (1966)
A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2024
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