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Estado & comunes is a biannual specialized publication edited in Spanish by the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN), in Ecuador. Its purpose is to promote reflection, dissemination and generation of knowledge on social reality from a public policy approach, with a scientific and international perspective. The journal embraces diverse theoretical, epistemological and methodological positions within the field of social sciences, specifically in the subfield of public policy and state administration.

Its scope encompasses the dissemination of original, investigative, reflexive and critical contents, guided by high standards of academic quality, ethics in the production and dissemination of knowledge, and efficiency in the editorial processes. All published articles are evaluated through the external double-blind refereeing system. The journal is aimed at the academic community, teachers, researchers, professors, public officials and people interested in contributing with rigorous and relevant analysis.

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Call for Paper No. 24

2025-12-16

Call for Paper No. 24, deadline May 15, 2026.

Main topic: Financial Systems and the Global Economy: Between Crises and Risks

Key topics: 1) Economic geopolitics, financial governance, and the international monetary architecture; 2) International trade, global value chains, and industrial policy; 4) Climate finance, energy transition, and macroeconomic sustainability; 5) Sovereign debt, restructuring, and the international financial legal architecture; 6) Global inflation, monetary policy, and transmission of financial shocks; 7) Economic development, global inequality, and the political economy of the welfare state; 8) Artificial intelligence, the digital economy, and technological sovereignty; 9) Economic security, financial crime, and transnational illicit flows; 10) Economic warfare, international sanctions, and external shocks

- Regional integration, new financial regionalisms, and South–South cooperation

Coordinators: Po Chun Lee (IAEN) and Samba DIOP (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)

Publication date: January 2027

Terms and conditions: https://bit.ly/48HyjFZ

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Coordinator: Lorena Herrera-Vinelli

Period: July-December 2025

Published: 2025-07-15

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