World Association for Political Economy

WAPE [2018] No.1

Call for Papers

Proposed Topics:

1. The Thought of Karl Marx and Its Contemporary Value
2. The Thought of Rosa Luxemburg and Its Contemporary Value
3. The Communist Manifesto and the World Socialist Movement
4. World System Theories: Core, Periphery, and Quasi-core
5. The Basic Contradiction of Capitalism and Various Forms of Economic Crisis
6. Unbalanced Development of the World Economy and New Features of Contemporary Capitalism
7. Fair Economic Globalization and Narrow Anti-globalization
8. International Cooperation and Sharing Development in the “Belt and Road” Initiative
9. To Construct a New International Economic, Political and Military Order and a Community of Shared Future for Humankind
10. Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism, Contemporary Neo-imperialism and Neo- colonism
11. The New Trends in Neoliberalism and Its Negative Effects on the World      Economy and People’s Livelihood
12. Studies of Schools of Marxist Political Economy in Different Countries in and the World
13. Other Related Topics of Political Economy

How to apply to attend the thirteenth WAPE Forum

www.wapeweb.org.

•  Important dates

• Registration fee

• Official Languages: English and German

•  Schedule

• What is the benefit of joining WAPE?

• General Membership

• Free digital copies of the organization’s peer reviewed academic journal, World Review of Political Economy (WRPE), which is published four times a year.
• Publishing of members’ selected articles on our websites.
• Translating selected books and articles into Chinese and publishing them in China.
• Invitations to attend a variety of conferences in China.
• Scholars who are members may be invited to China on a lecture tour.
• Members will be invited to join panels, which WAPE will organize for various international conferences held in different countries.

• WAPE. The World Association for Political Economy, registered in Paris, is an international academic organization founded by Marxist economists and related groups around the world. The mission of WAPE is to utilize modern Marxist 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 twelve WAPE forums were successively held in Shanghai, Shimane (Japan), Beijing, Paris, Suzhou (China), Amherst (USA), Mexico City (Mexico), Florianopolis (Brazil) and Hanoi (Vietnam), Johannesburg (South Africa), Patiala (India), and Moscow (Russia) during 2006-2017. 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 Marxist 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 wapemember@vip.163.com.

• 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 and articles in 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 theories 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 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 Marxist economics. The 2018 WAPE Awards will be granted at the opening ceremony of the Thirteenth WAPE Forum. Nominations and applications can be sent to wapemember@vip.163.com.