Working Papers

The LSE Global South Unit Working Paper Series showcases research conducted by GSU staff and other academics working on the topic of the emergence of the 'Global South'. If you wish to submit a paper to be considered for publication in the series, please contact us by email.

Call for papers

2016

• 'Passive agents? Bureaucratic agency in Africa-China negotiations:
  A case study of Benin' by Folashadé Soulé-Kohndou. WPS 03-2016, May 2016
• 'Civil Society Organisations’ Political Control over Brazil and Japan’s Development Cooperation in Mozambique: More than a mere whim?' by Sérgio Chichava and Jimena Durán. WPS 02-2016, February 2016
• 'Early Lessons from the Colombian Peace Process' by Andrés Ucrós Maldonado. WPS 01-2016, January 2016

2015

• 'Change and Continuity in Chinese Foreign Policy: China’s Engagement in the Libyan Civil War as a Case Study' by Jian Junbo and Álvaro Méndez. WPS 05-2015, November 2015
• 'The Origins of Nuclear Cooperation between Brazil and Argentina' by Matias Spektor. WPS 04-2015, August 2015
• 'A comparative study of foreign economic policies: The CIVETS countries' by Angélica Guerra-Barón and Álvaro Méndez. WPS 03-2015, June 2015
• 'Reshaping the Financial Architecture for Development Finance. The New Development Banks' by Rajiv Biswas. WPS 02-2015, March 2015
• 'Regional Organizations and Security Governance: A Comparative Assessment of IGAD and ASEAN' by Asnake Kefale. WPS 01-2015, January 2015

2014

• 'Strategies and Counter-strategies: China in the Andean Region of South America'  by  Ádam Chimienti and Benjamin Creutzfeldt. WPS 01-2014, October 2014