Research
January 2026

Can China’s Bilateral Currency Swap Agreements Counter the IMF’s Hegemony in Africa?

Part 2: What Lessons for the Economic Sovereignty of Africa and Tunisia ? Abstract: In the first part of this article, we analyzed the monetary tool that is BCS currency swap agreements and attempted to critically assess their potential for..

Article
September 2025

How U.S. Monetary Policy Sustains Imperial Power and Drives Class Struggle

How U.S. Monetary Policy Sustains Imperial Power and Drives Class Struggle A Critical Analysis of the Trump–Powell Standoff and Fed Hegemony Introduction: The Trump-Powell Standoff as a Window into Systemic Conflict The publicly heated disputes between U.S. President Donald Trump..

Interview
October 2022

Africa Needs Economic Sovereignty

Africa Needs Economic Sovereignty An upcoming conference in Dakar seeks to promote policies and pathways to empower the continent   Perhaps no continent suffers more from the legacy of European colonialism than Africa. Following centuries of enslavement, violent dispossession, and..

October 2022

International Conference: African Economic and Monetary Sovereignty

The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in collaboration with the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity – GISP and the network “Politics of money” are organizing the second edition of the International Conference: “The quest for economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century..

Research
June 2022

Democracy or Economy? What needs to be changed to break the deadlock in Tunisia

Ten years after the Arab world’s first country rose up against injustice, the failure of the democratic process has placed the country at a dangerous crossroads

Research
May 2022

Chronicles of a Death Foretold: Democracy and Dedevelopment in Tunisia

– Exogenous shocks of different types cost the Tunisian economy billions in foregone growth and deprived it of critical foreign currency receipts. Pushing the current account into deeper deficits, exogenous shocks made the country’s leadership increasingly beholden to foreign creditors…

April 11, 2022

Ramadan with Rosa

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – North Africa Office organizes a festival during the month of Ramadan under the title “Ramadan with Rosa” that includes a series of seminars, cultural activities and various events.

Article
February 2022

France’s African policy is at a dead end. And Putin is in the fast lane

Mali’s military junta has booted out the French ambassador, Joël Meyer, for criticising its decision to postpone national elections indefinitely

Research paper
November 2021

The future of development in the mining basin, after or without phosphate

Study about “The future of development in the mining basin after or without phosphate” in Tunisia

September 26, 2021

Book presentation at the French Institute in Cairo

Book presentation and conference about The political economy of food sovereignty in Egypt with Mohamad Ramadan and Sakr Nour, auhtors of the book “Eish merahrah”

May 06, 2021

Webinar series on the African continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)

Webinar series on the African continetal Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)

Article
July 2020

COVID-19 Is Grist to the Border Regime Mill

Months after the coronavirus outbreak turned into a global health crisis, it is still unclear how the pandemic will affect social inequalities, economies, and migration movements in the mid and long term