Sharing New Publications

[Nat Andy]

Dear Colleagues,

Just sharing these new publications with you.

This first article in Third World Quarterly asks the question of whether a green new international economic order is possible by examining the global governance of critical minerals. The emphasis is to tease out whether the ideas for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) that emerged in the 1970s are still viable in this era where critical minerals and rare earth elements (REEs) are expected to be core to the transition from fossil-fuel to renewable energy for instance. The idea of a new order is relevant because Global South countries are among the world’s richest in these essential minerals and REEs and the geopolitical balance of power could tilt (and is tilting in some respects as part new forms of resource nationalism) to their favour depending on how the current and emerging governance/policy arrangements as well as South-South cooperation play out. A key question is as follows: How can the global green transition be done without repeating the colonial global structures of the past that have informed old and ongoing forms of resource extraction? We examine the role of different players and particularly zoom in on the case of China as a Global South country that is a leading actor in this area. 

-Here's the link to the article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2025.2608840 (PDF attached here as well)
-And here's the link to a follow-up op-ed piece we wrote to make the work more publicly accessible: https://www.globalsouthworld.com/article/what-can-global-south-countries-do-to-advance-a-green-transition-that-is-just-and-transformative-opinion 

The second article in The Extractive Industries and Society examines how engagement with host communities, state institutions, civil society organizations and investors shapes accountability outcomes in Ghana’s mining sector. The core argument is that advancing accountability requires moving beyond tokenistic consultations towards engagement processes that explicitly address power asymmetries and meaningfully incorporate community actors into decision-making. The paper is fully open access and can be widely distributed. Here's the link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X26000523 (PDF attached here).

I hope you find these useful somehow!

Thanks,
Nathan.

Nathan N. K. Andrews, PhD
Associate Professor of Global/International Studies, McMaster University
Program Co-Chair, International Studies Association 2026 Convention
Member, Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars
Co-Editor-in-Chief, African Security
Co-Host, Hidden Figures Podcast