Radhika Desai 拉迪卡·德賽

拉迪卡·德賽 (Radhika Desai) 

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Convenor: Radhika Desai – [e-mail]

國際宣言集團的召集人。 她是加拿大溫尼伯曼尼托巴大學政治研究係教授和地緣政治經濟研究小組主任。 她是《資本主義、冠狀病毒和戰爭：地緣政治經濟》（2022 年）、《地緣政治經濟：美國霸權、全球化和帝國之後》（2013 年）、《向阿約提亞垂頭喪氣：從國會到印度政治中的印度教》（第 2 版，2004 年）和 知識分子與社會主義：《社會民主黨》和工黨（1994年），《新政治家和社會月刊》，編輯或聯合編輯《俄羅斯、烏克蘭和當代帝國主義》，《國際批判思想》特刊（2016年） 、地緣政治經濟的理論參與（2015）、地緣政治經濟的分析收益（2015）、為當今資本主義複興馬克思主義理論（2010）和發展與文化民族主義（2009）。她還在《經濟與政治周刊》上發表了多篇文章 、《國際批判思想》、《新左派評論》、《第三世界季刊》、《世界政治經濟學評論》等期刊和政黨、政治經濟、文化和民族主義的編輯集。 她與艾倫·弗裏曼 (Alan Freeman) 共同編輯了曼徹斯特大學出版社的地緣政治經濟叢書以及與冥王星出版社的《資本主義的未來》叢書。

國際宣言集團

國際宣言集團在疫情爆發之初就開始討論世界秩序快速變化的政治和地緣政治經濟及其國家和地區組成部分。 我們來自世界各地——北美和南美、歐洲和非洲、西亞、俄羅斯、中國、東亞、東南亞和南亞——並致力於變得更加包容。 我們代表了社會主義思潮的多樣性。 我們每兩周舉行一次會議，並就重大問題舉行變焦活動。 這些內容均發布在本網站上。 我們分析的核心是我們的宣言，“通過多極化走向社會主義”，我們相信參與其中的主題並進一步發展它們對於進一步左翼前進非常重要。

地緣政治經濟研究組

Radhika Desai 博士是地緣政治經濟研究小組主任

https://geopoliticaleconomy.org/about/

451 大學學院, 曼尼托巴大學, 溫尼伯MB

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什麽是 GERG？

地緣政治經濟研究小組（GERG）將成為一個有影響力的政策研究機構，對各國及其與世界經濟的關係進行高質量的研究和分析。 它將批判性地分析並提出管理國民經濟和國家互動的政策選擇，以促進當今多極世界中的人類發展和互利。

為什麽需要它？

對國內和國際政治經濟問題的新思考日益迫切。 金融危機後出現的多極世界給近幾十年來這種思維所依據的既定框架打上了問號，特別是由市場統一世界秩序的全球化，以及由主導大國統一世界秩序的帝國。

在這樣的框架中，要麽沒有國家重要，要麽隻有一個國家重要。 相比之下，多極化承認世界經濟存在裂痕，國際經濟治理存在激烈競爭，特別是在先進工業國家和新興國家之間。 陷入困境的多哈發展回合談判和陷入僵局的哥本哈根氣候談判證明了這一理論。 此外，新興經濟體正在建立開發銀行和貨幣儲備池等國際經濟治理替代安排，削弱世界銀行和國際貨幣基金組織等西方主導的國際金融機構的中心地位。

多極化也是國家主導發展或多或少成功的結果，這些國家願意並且能夠拒絕全球化的陳詞濫調，反抗帝國的威脅 — — 直接與將世界劃分為民族國家無關緊要的論點相矛盾。 危機加速了它的發展，但並沒有造成它。 它醞釀已久。 現有的主導概念不僅已經過時，而且從來都不準確。 加拿大和世界各地的公共和私人機構需要更好的理解，才能在 21 世紀的世界秩序中有效采取行動。

地緣政治經濟研究小組將探討多極化的積極影響，通過在國家和國際層麵上促進人類發展的民主、平等戰略，尋求可持續地擺脫危機。 它將批判性地借鑒過去國家主導的經濟增長的經驗，使21世紀發展型國家的理念現代化。 在此過程中，它將特別關注探索各個發展水平的國家如何分享最先進的科學和創意技術的生產、使用和交流。

這些技術使我們處於劃時代轉變的風口浪尖。 實物商品的生產和消費占用的人類勞動越來越少。 如今，這通常會導致一些人富裕，而許多人卻貧困、失業和邊緣化。 該研究所將努力確保擴大國家內部和國家間人類發展的各個方麵。

地緣政治經濟研究小組將研究一係列問題——經濟、金融、社會以及與安全、原住民、邊緣性、文化、創造力和技術以及環境可持續性相關的問題。 在此過程中，它將利用許多學科的優勢，包括政治研究、曆史學、經濟學、社會學和人類學以及國際/全球政治經濟學的政治學子學科。

總部位於加拿大的地緣政治經濟研究小組將與世界各地誌同道合的機構合作，作為世界網絡的中心，致力於實現國家和國際平等、多樣性、繁榮、穩定與和平。 它將涉及政府和治理機構——國家、地區、省、大都市和地方，以及對政策感興趣的私營部門和社區參與者。

它會做什麽？

為了進一步推進這一分析以及由此產生的政策，地緣政治經濟研究所將通過以下方式促進研究：

• 與密歇根大學教師、學生和學者合作開展主要和次要的研究項目；

• 為研究生和本科生提供研究和指導機會；

• 增強曼尼托巴大學和其他地方的學生體驗；

• 通過出版傳播研究成果，並以書籍、文章、政策簡報和其他材料（印刷版和電子版）的形式協助出版研究、分析和政策建議

• 組織誌同道合的機構網絡，例如後全球化組織

Geopolitical Economy Research Group

Dr. Radhika Desai is the Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group

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451 University College
University of Manitoba
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What is GERG?

The Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG) will be an influential policy research institute, conducting high quality research and analysis dealing with nations and their relation to the world economy.  It will critically analyze, and propose, policy alternatives for managing the interaction of national economies and states to promote human development and mutual benefit in today’s multipolar world.

Why it is Needed?

New thinking on national and international political and economic issues is increasingly urgent. The multipolar world that emerged after the financial crisis places a question-mark over established frameworks under which this thinking has proceeded in recent decades, notably globalization  in which the world order is unified by markets, and empire in which it is unified by a leading power

In such frameworks, either no state matters, or only one state does. Multipolarity, in contrast, recognizes a fissured world economy in which international economic governance is sharply contested, especially between the advanced industrial and emerging countries. The languishing Doha Development Round negotiations and staled Copenhagen climate talks evidence this theory. In addition, Emerging economies are establishing alternative arrangements for international economic governance such as development banks and currency reserve pools that undermine the centrality of western-dominated international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Multipolarity is also the result of more or less successful state-directed development by states willing and able to reject the platitudes of globalization and defy the menace of empire – directly contradicting the thesis that the division of the world into nation-states is inconsequential.  The crisis accelerated it but did not create it. It was long in the making. Existing dominant concepts are not merely outdated: they were never accurate.  Public and private agents in Canada and around the world need better understandings to act effectively in the 21st century world order.

The Geopolitical Economy Research Group will explore the positive implications of multipolarity, seeking a sustainable exit from the crisis by through democratic, egalitarian strategies for human development at the national and international levels. Critically appropriating past experience of state-led economic growth, it will modernize the idea of the developmental state for the 21^st century. In doing so, it will give particular attention to exploring how nations at all levels of development can share in the production, use and exchange of the most advanced scientific and creative technologies .

These technologies have put us at the cusp of an epochal transition. The production and consumption of physical commodities occupies less and less of humankind’s labour. Today this usually results in plenty for some and under- and unemployment and marginalization for the many. The Institute will work toward ensuring that it results in an expansion of all aspects of human development within and across nations.

The Geopolitical Economy Research Group will work on a range of issues – economic, financial, social, and those related to security, aboriginality, marginality, culture, creativity and technology and environmental sustainability. In doing so, it will draw on the strengths of a number of disciplines including Political Studies, History, Economies, Sociology and Anthropology as well as the Political Science sub-discipline of International/Global Political Economy.

The Canada-based Geopolitical Economy Research Group will collaborate with like-minded institutions around the world as the centre of a world network working towards national and international equality, diversity, prosperity, stability and peace. It will address governments and governance institutions – national, regional, provincial, metropolitan and local, as well as private sector and community actors with an interest in policy.

What Will It Do?

In furthering this analysis and the policies that emerge from it, the Institute for Geopolitical Economy will promote research o by doing the following:

• Undertake major and minor research projects with collaboration between UM faculty and students and scholars beyond;

• Provide research and mentoring opportunities for graduate as well as undergraduate students;

• Enhance student experience at the University of Manitoba and elsewhere;

• Disseminate the results of research by publishing, and aid the publication of, research, analysis and policy proposals in the form of books, articles, policy briefs and other material, in print and electronically

• Organize a network of like-minded institutions such as the Post-Globalization Initiative (Russia), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) in Cape Town, South Africa, FLACSO in Mexico City and Bricspost in London.

• Promote academic exchanges of faculty and graduate and undergraduate students within the network;

• Produce multi-media, audio and video material to generate wider understanding of key issues and the institute’s work;

• Make policy proposals and evaluate those made by national governments, international institutions and influential private and civil society actors;

• Organize and/or aid in the organization of workshops, seminars, conferences and alternative policy summits to shadow major international summits such as those of the BRICS and the G20;

• Maintain a website;

• Apply for funding, and raise money from philanthropic sources, to sustain these activities;

• Commission research on these and related themes;

• Arrange and facilitate interchange between scholars and like-minded institutions.

Radhika Desai

The Convener of the International Manifesto Group. She is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, and Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of Capitalism, Coronovirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy (2022) Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013), Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2nd rev ed, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: ‘Social Democrats’ and the Labour Party (1994), a New Statesman and Society Book of the Month, and editor or co-editor of Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism, a special issue of International Critical Thought (2016), Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy (2015), Analytical Gains from Geopolitical Economy (2015), Revitalizing Marxist Theory for Today’s Capitalism (2010) and Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms (2009).She is also the author of numerous articles in Economic and Political Weekly, International Critical Thought, New Left Review, Third World Quarterly, World Review of Political Economy and other journals and in edited collections on parties, political economy, culture and nationalism. With Alan Freeman, she co-edits the Geopolitical Economy book series with Manchester University Press and the Future of Capitalism book series with Pluto Press.

The International Manifesto Group

The International Manifesto Group began discussing the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of the world order and its national and regional components at the beginning of the pandemic. We are from around the world – North and South America, Europe and Africa, West Asia, Russia, China, East, South East and South Asia – and aim to be even more inclusive. We represent a diversity of currents of socialist thought. We meet fortnightly and hold zoom events on major issues. These are published on this website. The core of our analysis is our Manifesto, ‘Through Pluripolarity to Socialism’, and we believe engagement with its themes to develop them further is important for further left advance.