About Program

The Political Economy is the science that studies the foundations of the development of communities as it focuses on studying the production, the social relations in production, the class and social status in the production process and its effect on the social and economic forms. This topic also studies the production relation during its development and it clarifies the contradictions in the productions’ relations that create a development to the production pattern. Political economy is known as the law science that controls the economic relations, which are the social relations that develop between the community individuals through the materials and services, and they are the relations that are connected to the production and division of the materialistic stuff and services that fulfill the needs of the human beings necessary for the livelihood of the members of society, their material livelihood and culture.

The PhD in International Political Economy spots light on the interaction between the political and economic powers and gives a deeper understanding on the hierarchies and the power dynamics that control finance and trade, drive globalization and economic nationalism, and affect the distribution of wealth and poverty across and within countries, regions, and the world. This program focuses on supporting the research in the current global political and economic transformations, in addition to the social and political impacts on the local and global levels. The program will train researchers on the new global transformation and so they will be able to participate in the emerging forms of global governance, and be committed to tackling global inequality, which in turn will help in enriching the research in this field.