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This article reviews through an economic lense the law of international institutions,which through managing the relationship among states is gradually leading to the emergence of a global regime with imperial tendencies. Nations express their interest in belonging to international institutions for the purpose of gaining socio-economic and political benefits achievable under a harmonised system of mutual dependence. Although this article does not seek to analyse whether the developing nations are better off belonging to international institutions, it nonetheless reviews the rationale behind developing nations maintaining their membership of international institutions despite the widening gap between the rich and the poor nations. The strategic positioning of the international institutions sways favourably towards indirectly aiding developed countries to continue dominating the developing nations. Exercise of power by international institutions bring to the fore that states - the less developed states in particular - are gradually losing their sovereignty and inherent power to superintend their domestic affairs without external influence. This accentuates the notion that international institutions are gradually assuming an imperial status, which has successfully replaced colonialism with neo-colonialism, to be favoured on the global market. The international legal movement is thus reflected in and by economic consequences unfavourable to developing nations.

2002 itibarıyla Afrika'da uygulanan dışarı çıkma politikası, Çin-Afrika ilişkilerinin yapısal bir dönüşüm gerçekleşmesiyle sonuçlanmıştır. Bu makalede, Çin'in dışarı çıkma politikasının Afrika'daki iki saç ayaǧı olan hammadde yatırımları ve tarım yatırımları, yeni-kolonyal bir ekonominin esaslarını oluşturan krediler, yardımlar ve yatırımlar baǧlamında İncelenmektedir. Makalede literatüre hakim yaklaşımlara karşıt bir biçimde, Çin'in Afrika politikasının yeni-kolonyal öǧelere biçimlendiǧi iddia edilmektedir. Bu bakımdan makale, dışarı çıkma (going out) politikasının üç alana yansıyan temel uygulamalarının yeni olmadıǧını ve tarihsel süreçte Batılı ülkelerin Afrika'da uyguladıǧı birikimci politikaların yeniden cisimleşmesi olduǧunu göstermeyi amaçlamaktadır.

This paper, written on invitation by the editors of Comparative Migration Studies, is intended as a provocation piece for invited commentators, and more broadly for those working with, or concerned about, the field of immigrant integration research. It outlines an argument put forward in Imagined Societies. A Critique of Immigrant Integration in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2017) that 1) critiques immigrant integration research for bad (or lacking) conceptual work, specifically also in regard to the core sociological notion of ‘society’; 2) argues that immigrant integration monitoring is a neocolonial form of knowledge intricately bound up with the contemporary workings of power, and 3) proposes social science moves beyond notions of ‘immigrant integration’ and ‘society’ towards an imagination against the grain that involves paying due attention to what happens when migrants move across social ecologies, without resorting to commonsense and/or policy categories in doing so.

It is widely perceived how research institutes have been adopting the discourse of champions of diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI) in recent years. Despite progress in diversity and inclusion in the academic environment, we highlight here that nothing or, at very best, little work has been done to overcome the scientific labor division in academic research that promotes neocolonial practices in academic recognition and jeopardizes equity. In this piece, we bring secondary data that reinforce biased patterns in academic recognition between Global North and South (geographical markers and citation bias), and propose three actions that should be adopted by researchers, research institutes, journals, and scientific societies from the Global North that allows for a fairer recognition of the academic expertise produced by the Global South.

As the literature on Comparative Regionalism studies increases, more and more scholars take a chance at creating a new or better tool to explain how regions have become more integrated, and what has caused them to want to come together in the first place. As one of the new researchers, I have seen a huge fragmentation in my attempts to find a suitable methodology for my case of comparing two regions (through pure interregionalism2). As such, this research brings together a collection of scholars who have extensively exchanged knowledge and papers, with some who belong to other research fields, in an attempt to settle this need. This is how the ecological framework, a tool that aims to be both extensive and flexible, has been created. While limited, for the moment, by a strong political lens, and with a focus on EU and AU literature, it can provide a reliable analysis of various integration processes.