Call for Papers: Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order: an International Workshop!

Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order: an International Workshop

During the past decade, it has become obvious that economic interconnectedness did not bring forth frictionless international relations as many liberal theorists had predicted. To the contrary, the fact that economic integration has been profound-ly uneven has enabled the weaponisation of asymmetrical economic relations for the achievement of geopolitical and/or economic goals (Whyte 2022; Farrell 2023). The weaponisation of the unique international role of the US dollar is one of the most consequential examples of this trend. For instance, in the period since 2001, US sanctions designations have expanded by an extraordinary 933%.

To this end, we seek contributions from economists, IR scholars, political theo-rists, historians, sociologists and lawyers to explore this important question as well as its theoretical and practical implications. We are interested, amongst other is-sues, in papers exploring:

1) the material and ideological foundations of dollar hegemony and their effects on state sovereignty and international order;

2) the distributional impacts of dollar hegemony both between states and be-tween classes/factions of classes;

3) the legal rules and infrastructures that enable and challenge dollar hegemony;

4) the historical evolution of dollar hegemony;

5) the interplay between dollar hegemony, private money creation and financial capitalism;

6) institutional and political alternatives to dollar hegemony.

7) public and private experiments with digital currencies and their consequences for state sovereignty.

8) the implications of dollar hegemony and challenges to it for unilateral sanc-tions.

9) the geopolitics of dollar hegemony;

10) the mutually-sustaining relationship between US militarism and dollar hegemony.

We will explore these and other urgent question in a two-day workshop that will take place on the 5th and 6th of December 2024 at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia).

If interested, please send us an abstract of no more than 400 words and a short bio of no more than 50 words by the 1st of July 2024 at [email protected]. Limited funding may be available for speakers who do not have access to institutional funding.