July 21, 2026
9:00: Welcome and Announcements – Andrew Jorgenson (University of British Columbia), and Christian Suter (World Society Foundation)
9:15 - 10:15: Keynote – Matthew Mahutga (University of California – Riverside), "How Can Sociology Contribute to the New Global Political Economy?"
10:15 - 10:30: Break
10:30 - 12:00: Panel
William Thompson (Indiana University), Thomas Volgy (University of Arizona), and Eunsong Yoon (Princeton University), “How Globalization Works Through Regionalization: The Tripolar Architecture of World Trade”
Christopher Chase-Dunn (University of California – Riverside), Sakin Erin (University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma), and Paul Regier (University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma), “The Reconfiguration of Global Trade Subnetworks in Recent Decades”
Art Alderson (Indiana University) and Helge Marahrens (University of Notre Dame), “Global Networks and City Development, 1993-2015”
12:00 - 1:15: Lunch Break
1:15 - 2:45: Panel
Ang Li (Brown University), “Compositional and Scale Effects: How Foreign Direct Investment Shapes Informal Labor Markets in Latin America, 2000-2018”
Aryaman Sharma (Indiana University), “Domination and Dependence: Theorizing Small Peripheral States”
Jose Morales (University of Sussex) and Samuel Cohn (Texas A&M University), “Disarticulation and Economic Growth: New Methodologies, Hits, and Misses”
2:45 - 3:00: Break
3:00 - 4:00: Panel
Nicolas Viens (University of British Columbia), “States & Decarbonization: Rethinking Embedded Autonomy in the De-Risking Age”
Matthew Soener (University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign), “Triangular World: Capitalist Crisis and Petrodollar Recycling in the 1970s”
4:00: Adjourn
July 22, 2026
9:00 - 10:30: Panel
Barbara Wejnert (University at Buffalo), “Globalizing Political Economy and Political Governance to Combat Climate Change”
Isak Ladegaard (University of Hong Kong) and Orla Kelly (University College Dublin), “How Norway Leverages Its Petrowealth to Govern the Future”
Benjamin Leffel (University of Nevada – Las Vegas), “Global Climate Lobbying by Corporations and their Trade Associations”
10:30 - 10:45: Break
10:45 - 12:15: Panel
Annika Rieger (Singapore Management University) and Xiaorui Huang (Boston College), “The Business of Ecologically Unequal Exchange: A Multi-level Analysis of Corporate Emissions”
Keiichi Satoh (Hitotsubashi University), “The Logics of Divergent Modernities and the Choice of Future Energy Sources: A Global Comparative Analysis”
Taekyeong Goh (University of British Columbia), “When Labor Ages and Machines Rise: Demographic Change, Automation, and the Energy Intensity of Growth”
12:15 - 1:30: Lunch
1:30 - 2:15: Lightening Talks
Nick Theis (Kenyon College), “Export Specialization and Global Environmental Health Inequalities: Connecting Ecologically Unequal Exchange to Population Health”
Feng Hao (University of South Florida), “Reducing Income Inequality to Decouple the Economy’s Contribution to Carbon Emissions: A Study of 112 Low- and Middle-Income Countries from 1990 to 2022”
Jared Fitzgerald (Oklahoma State University), “Interlocking Treadmills: Militarization, Inequality, and Carbon Emissions”
2:15 Adjourn
July 23, 2026
9:00 - 10:30: Panel
Qian Wei (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Liam Swiss (Acadia University), “Captured by Culture? Trade Dislocation, Organized Labor, and the Production of Indentity Capture in Advanced Democracies”
Valentine Moghadam (Northeastern University), Christopher Chase-Dunn (University of California – Riverside), and Ethan Salazar (University of California – Riverside), “Regime Forms and Trade Connectedness: Waves of Autocracy and Globalization / Deglobalization”
Jeffrey Kentor (Wayne State University), Anthony Roberts (Colorado State University), and Rob Clark (University of California – Riverside), “Foreign Direct Investment in the 21st Century: Evidence of Deglobalization or Reconfigured Globalization?”
10:30 - 10:45: Break
10:45 - 12:15: Panel
Roshan Pandian (Southern Methodist University), “Information about Global Inequality and Americans' Meritocratic Attitudes and International Policy Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment”
Jacob Richard Thomas (Corvinus University of Budapest) and Peng Huang (University of Georgia), “Cultural Affinities and Political-Economic Inequalities in the Global Visa-Free Mobility Networks, 1969-2010”
Anthony Roberts (Colorado State University) and Kevin Curwin (Colorado State University), “The Global Political Economy of International Development Discourse in the 21st Century”
12:15 - 1:15: Lunch
1:15 - 1:45 Lightening Talks
Ahmed Anees (Cairo University) and Omar Khaled Samir (Cairo University), “Global Economic Integration and Voting Behavior in the United Nations General Assembly”
Hiroko Inoue (University of California – Riverside), “The Decoupling of Geopolitics and Defense Capital: US Hegemonic Decline and Multi-Polar Maneuvering in the Global Arms Transfer Network, 1990 - 2018”
1:45 - 2:00: Break
2:00 - 3:00: Final Group Discussion (Wrap up, Publication Plans, Next Steps for GPE, Moderated by Andrew Jorgenson & Conference Organizing Committee)
3:00: Adjourn