11 March — Crystal A. Ennis, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Forum Shopping from Below: The Global Political Economy of Transnational Migrant Advocacy Networks

8 April — Yoonai Han, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Mapping Debt, Displacement, and Rentier Urbanism in South Korea

13 May — Jue Wang (LIAS), Shiming Yang (LIAS), Michael Sampson (IPS).

Transformations in Global Climate Finance: Understanding Emerging Institutional Approaches

14 October — Jaewook Lee, Economics, Faculty of Law.

Saving His Job, Not Hers: Selective Protection in Automation-Driven Job Loss

11 November — Morena Skalamera, Institute for History.

Growth Models, Carbon Pathways, and the Geopolitics of the Green Transition

18 November — Rizal Shidiq, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Middle-Class Conundrum: Its Growth and Stagnation in Indonesia

2 December — Imogen T. Liu, Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

A New Age of Infrastructure Development? An Historical Comparison of Nested Dependency in Pakistan and Egypt

20 March — Yize Huang, MARS Visiting Scholar, Leiden Institute of Political Science / Nazarbayev University.

Break for Landlocked: Migration Policy Reform in Kazakhstan

17 April — Mengdi Zhu, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

The private and public sides of Weibo: combining economic and political economy perspectives

22 May — Crystal A. Ennis, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Women, gig work, & Techno-Fixes in the Gulf Platform Economy

22 October — Dr. Matt Ferchen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Rethinking Economic Security and Resilience in Asia: Lessons from Australia, Japan, S. Korea and Taiwan

12 November — Dr. Shiming Yang, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Rising Power Divided: China and India in International Environmental Politics

3 December — Dr. Carwyn Morris, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Global China in Urban Europe: Understanding the role of Chinese actors, media, cultures, and capital in European urban development

23 February — Dr. Ivan Bakalov, Leiden Institute of Political Science. Violence and Transformation: The Political Economy of Russia's War against Ukraine

22 March — Dr. Yujing Tan, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Innovating China: Governance and Mobility in China's New Economy

16 April — Dr. Ritanjan Das, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Fragmented Marginalities: Dispossessed Peasantry and Migrant Labour Communities in Urban North India

31 March — Youssef Cherif, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Neo Pan-Arabism and the Quest for Legitimacy of the Maghrebi Leadership

21 April — Ying Wang, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Complementary or Alternative? Examining the Emerging Role of Chinese NGOs in China's Global Development Footprint

25 May — Hanno Jentzsch, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Analyzing the kaso vote: Peripheralization, redistribution, and electoral stability in Japan's depopulating municipalities

14 October — Ivan Bakalov, Institute of Political Science.

Entangled Transformations: Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Power Dynamics in Belarus

18 November — Jue Wang, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Neither 'Revisionist' nor 'Status Quo', both Statist and (Neo)liberal Institutionalist: China's Comprehensive Participation Approach in International Development Finance

9 December — Lindsay Black, Leiden Institute for Area Studies.

Meddling for profit: Japan's peace-building role in Myanmar

16 December — Emily Anne Wolff, Institute of Public Administration. Caribbeans and the National Assistance Act, 1948–1962

25 February — Shiming Yang, FGGA/FSW, Leiden University.

Political Economy of Vaccine Diplomacy co-convened with Global Transformations & Governance Challenges

22 April — Jan Aart Scholte, FGGA/FSW, Leiden University.

Inequality and Legitimacy in Global Governance co-convened with Global Transformations & Governance Challenges

20 May — Kayhan Valadbaygi, LIAS, Leiden University.

Eurocentrism and Marxist Geopolitics: The Case of Iran in the Neoliberal Era Spring 2021

19 March — Sai Englert, LIAS, Leiden University.

Hebrew Labour without Hebrew Workers: the Histadrut, Palestinian workers, and Israel's contemporary construction industry

23 April — Mohammad Sayyadi, Political Science, University of Tehran.

Neo-Prebendalism & the Development Dilemma: A New Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Political Economy of Development Suspension in Iran (1989–2017)

21 May — Philipp Golka, Public Administration, Leiden University.

Normative and constructive views of legitimacy in the financial governance of sustainability: the case of impact investing Autumn 2020

25 September — Matthew DiGiuseppe, Political Science, Leiden University.

The Microfoundations of Debt Crises

16 October — Aditi Mukherjee, LIAS, Leiden University.

Displacement and bodily politics: experience of rural 'homeless' in peri-urban Calcutta

20 November — M. Stella Morgana, LIAS, Leiden University.

Lagging behind: Labour Precarization, Short-Term Contracts and a weak Khāneh-ye Kārgar for Iranian workers

13 March — Natascha van der Zwan, FGGA, Leiden University. Financialization: A Pluridisciplinary Perspective

17 April — M. Stella Morgana, LIAS, Leiden University.

Lagging behind: Labour Precarization, Short-Term Contracts and a weak Khāneh-ye Kārgar for Iranian workers

8 May — Crystal A. Ennis, LIAS, Leiden University.

Ports, Production, and Promises: Radical Transformations and Job Creation in Oman

22 May 2026 — Rethinking Platform Capitalism

Dr. Niels van Doorn, University of Amsterdam.

The Group's annual L-PEG Lecture in Global Political Economy, with a reception to follow. Van Doorn is Associate Professor of New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and a founding editor of the journal Platforms & Society. The talk charts the unevenly distributed opportunities and costs of the platformization of capitalist social relations, from the post-GFC era through the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath.

22 November 2022 — Emerging Powers and Development Finance across the World

18 February 2022 — The Decade of Revolt? Class Conflict and the State of Permanent Crisis in the Post-2011 Middle East

April 2024 — Book Launch: Capitalism in Contemporary Iran

May 2019 — Terrorism against Multinational Corporations: Differences after the Cold War

April 2019 — Women in the Gulf: Economic Empowerment and Beyond 10 April 2019 · with Chatham House

March 2018 — Bold strategy or irrational exuberance — Can China's fiscal foundations support the Belt and Road Initiative?

The L-PEG book club is currently reading Marx.