Prof Lord Mawuko-Yevugah

Department

Public Management and International Relations

Lord Mawuko-Yevugah is currently an Associate Professor of Political Economy and International Relations. He is the immediate past Director of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance. He was also the founding Head of Department for Public Management and International Relations, and the Founding Coordinator of the PhD program at the GIMPA School of Public Service and Governance. He is the Editor of the Institute’s interdisciplinary Journal, the Greenhill Journal of Leadership and Governance, and serves as the Affiliation Coordinator of the Kof Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC).

He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta in Canada, specializing in international relations and comparative political economy. He studied for MPhil in Development Studies as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Cambridge in the UK, having graduated with Bachelor of Arts (First Class Hons.) in Political Science and Linguistics from the University of Ghana, Legon.

Prior to joining GIMPA, Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah held a Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Research Fellowship at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Before that, he had held faculty appointments at the University of Alberta and Athabasca University, both in Canada and at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He is affiliated with Graduate Institute of International Relations and Development, Geneva serving as an External Faculty of the master’s in development policies and Practices (DPP) Programme.

Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah is a member of several professional associations and is a life-time Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Society (FCCS). He was a winner of the Commonwealth Essay Competition, and a recipient of the Young Scholars Fellowship of the American Society of Public Administration. He was part of a team of researchers nominated by the African Union to develop Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). He is an external examiner for universities both within and outside Ghana and is a visiting scholar and trainer of trainers at the South African National School of Government. He also serves as a Senior Consultant at the UK-based Humanities Research Consultancy.

Apart from being an astute and internationally recognized academic, Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah worked as a journalist, serving as the Features Editor of the Business and Financial Times. He also worked with the Institute of Economic Affairs, Ghana as a Research Associate, and the Programme Officer of the Institute’s Governance unit.

Professor Mawuko-Yevugah is the founding Director and the Lead Researcher of the Pan-Africanist think tank, Centre for African Diplomacy and Global Engagement (www.afroglobals.org).

  • PhD, Political Science (University of Alberta, Canada).
  • MPhil, Development Studies (Cambridge University, UK)
  • BA (First Class Hons), Political Science & Linguistics (University of Ghana, Legon)
  • International and Comparative Political Economy
  • Politics of International Aid and Development Cooperation
  • Critical Development Theory
  • Critical Social/post-colonial Theory
  • Critical Development Theory
  • Human Rights in the Petro-chemical Industrial Complex
  • Climate Change and Ecological Imperialism
  • Emerging Powers and Geo-economics
  • Discourse Analysis
  • International Political Economy;
  • Public/Foreign Policy Analysis;
  • Communication and Writing Skills
  • Public Sector Legal and Regulatory Framework
  • Africa in World Politics
  • Human Rights in Global Politics
  • Regionalism & Regional Integration

Selected Publications

Books

  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2018). Made in Ghana: Reflections on Governance and Power Shifts. (Accra: University of Ghana Press)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2016). Reinventing Development: Aid Reform and Technologies of Government in Ghana (London/New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2013). African Time: Essays on Contemporary Politics and Governance, Bloomington: (Bloomington: AuthorHouse)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. And P. Ugor, eds. (2015) African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World: Challenges, Agency and Resistance (Ashgate Publishing Company).

Book Chapters

  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. and Ayelazuno, J. A. (2020). Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Economy of Africa. In Oloruntoba, S.O (Ed), Handbook of African Political Economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. and Ayelazuno, J.A. (2019). Liberal Democracy and Civil Society from “below” in Ghana: Can the Subalterns Act? In Ayee, J.A.A. (ed), Politics, Governance and Development in Ghana. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2019) “Politicizing Economic Reform in Africa: Ghana’s Political Economic Framework” In Aidoo, R. (ed) The Politics of Economic Reform in Ghana (Routledge, London/New York)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2015) “Tertiary Education Reform, Students Resistance and Political Reform in Contemporary Ghana” In Ugor, P.& Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (eds) 2016. African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World: Challenges, Agency and Resistance (Ashgate Publishing Company)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2014) “ICTs and the (re)production of development knowledge in Africa” In Amoah, L.G (ed) Impacts of the Knowledge Society on Economic and Social Growth in Africa, IGI Global: Hershey, PA.
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2013). “Political Economy of Development and Policy Outcomes in Postcolonial Africa” in Takyiwa Manuh and Esi Sutherland-Addy (eds) Africa in Contemporary Perspective, Accra, Sub-Saharan Publishers
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2010). “From Exclusion to Inclusion? A study of Civil Society Participation in Ghana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Process” In Puplampu K.P. and Tettey, W.J. (editors). Public Sphere and the Politics of Survival — Voice, Sustainability and Public Policy in Ghana, Accra, Woeli Publishing

Journal Articles

  • Ayelazuno, J.A. & Lord Mawuko-Yevugah (2021) “Between the Africa Mining Vision and neo-patrimonial states: the agency-gap in Ghana’s regulation of artisanal and small-scale gold mining”, South African Journal of International Affairs, 28:4
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L and Attipoe, H (2021). “Chieftaincy and Traditional Authority in Modern Democratic Ghana”, South African Journal of Philosophy, 40(3); pp 319-334
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L., Ayelazuno, J.A., and Akonnor, A. (2019). The Petrochemicals Industry and Land/Ocean Grabs in Ghana: Interrogating the Role of the Ghanaian Neoliberal State. Greenhill Journal of Leadership and Governance (GJLG) 1 (1): 77-93.
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. Ayelazuno, J.A. (2019). Large-scale Mining and Ecological Imperialism: The Politics of Mining and Ecological Preservation in Ghana. Journal of Political Ecology, Vol. 26. No. 1: 243-262.
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. Ayelazuno, J.A. (2019). Development Failures in Ghana, Development Miracles in Asia: Whither the Africa Rising? African and Asian Studies 18: 124-152
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2014) From Resistance to Acquiescence? Neoliberal Reform, Students Activism and Political Change in Ghana, Postcolonial Text, Vol 8, No 3

 

Prof Lord Mawuko-Yevugah

Department

Public Management and International Relations

Lord Mawuko-Yevugah is currently an Associate Professor of Political Economy and International Relations. He is the immediate past Director of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance. He was also the founding Head of Department for Public Management and International Relations, and the Founding Coordinator of the PhD program at the GIMPA School of Public Service and Governance. He is the Editor of the Institute’s interdisciplinary Journal, the Greenhill Journal of Leadership and Governance, and serves as the Affiliation Coordinator of the Kof Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC).

He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta in Canada, specializing in international relations and comparative political economy. He studied for MPhil in Development Studies as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Cambridge in the UK, having graduated with Bachelor of Arts (First Class Hons.) in Political Science and Linguistics from the University of Ghana, Legon.

Prior to joining GIMPA, Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah held a Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Research Fellowship at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Before that, he had held faculty appointments at the University of Alberta and Athabasca University, both in Canada and at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He is affiliated with Graduate Institute of International Relations and Development, Geneva serving as an External Faculty of the master’s in development policies and Practices (DPP) Programme.

Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah is a member of several professional associations and is a life-time Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Society (FCCS). He was a winner of the Commonwealth Essay Competition, and a recipient of the Young Scholars Fellowship of the American Society of Public Administration. He was part of a team of researchers nominated by the African Union to develop Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). He is an external examiner for universities both within and outside Ghana and is a visiting scholar and trainer of trainers at the South African National School of Government. He also serves as a Senior Consultant at the UK-based Humanities Research Consultancy.

Apart from being an astute and internationally recognized academic, Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah worked as a journalist, serving as the Features Editor of the Business and Financial Times. He also worked with the Institute of Economic Affairs, Ghana as a Research Associate, and the Programme Officer of the Institute’s Governance unit.

Professor Mawuko-Yevugah is the founding Director and the Lead Researcher of the Pan-Africanist think tank, Centre for African Diplomacy and Global Engagement (www.afroglobals.org).

  • PhD, Political Science (University of Alberta, Canada).
  • MPhil, Development Studies (Cambridge University, UK)
  • BA (First Class Hons), Political Science & Linguistics (University of Ghana, Legon)
  • International and Comparative Political Economy
  • Politics of International Aid and Development Cooperation
  • Critical Development Theory
  • Critical Social/post-colonial Theory
  • Critical Development Theory
  • Human Rights in the Petro-chemical Industrial Complex
  • Climate Change and Ecological Imperialism
  • Emerging Powers and Geo-economics
  • Discourse Analysis
  • International Political Economy;
  • Public/Foreign Policy Analysis;
  • Communication and Writing Skills
  • Public Sector Legal and Regulatory Framework
  • Africa in World Politics
  • Human Rights in Global Politics
  • Regionalism & Regional Integration

Selected Publications

Books

  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2018). Made in Ghana: Reflections on Governance and Power Shifts. (Accra: University of Ghana Press)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2016). Reinventing Development: Aid Reform and Technologies of Government in Ghana (London/New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2013). African Time: Essays on Contemporary Politics and Governance, Bloomington: (Bloomington: AuthorHouse)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. And P. Ugor, eds. (2015) African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World: Challenges, Agency and Resistance (Ashgate Publishing Company).

Book Chapters

  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. and Ayelazuno, J. A. (2020). Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Economy of Africa. In Oloruntoba, S.O (Ed), Handbook of African Political Economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. and Ayelazuno, J.A. (2019). Liberal Democracy and Civil Society from “below” in Ghana: Can the Subalterns Act? In Ayee, J.A.A. (ed), Politics, Governance and Development in Ghana. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2019) “Politicizing Economic Reform in Africa: Ghana’s Political Economic Framework” In Aidoo, R. (ed) The Politics of Economic Reform in Ghana (Routledge, London/New York)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2015) “Tertiary Education Reform, Students Resistance and Political Reform in Contemporary Ghana” In Ugor, P.& Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (eds) 2016. African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World: Challenges, Agency and Resistance (Ashgate Publishing Company)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2014) “ICTs and the (re)production of development knowledge in Africa” In Amoah, L.G (ed) Impacts of the Knowledge Society on Economic and Social Growth in Africa, IGI Global: Hershey, PA.
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2013). “Political Economy of Development and Policy Outcomes in Postcolonial Africa” in Takyiwa Manuh and Esi Sutherland-Addy (eds) Africa in Contemporary Perspective, Accra, Sub-Saharan Publishers
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2010). “From Exclusion to Inclusion? A study of Civil Society Participation in Ghana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Process” In Puplampu K.P. and Tettey, W.J. (editors). Public Sphere and the Politics of Survival — Voice, Sustainability and Public Policy in Ghana, Accra, Woeli Publishing

Journal Articles

  • Ayelazuno, J.A. & Lord Mawuko-Yevugah (2021) “Between the Africa Mining Vision and neo-patrimonial states: the agency-gap in Ghana’s regulation of artisanal and small-scale gold mining”, South African Journal of International Affairs, 28:4
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L and Attipoe, H (2021). “Chieftaincy and Traditional Authority in Modern Democratic Ghana”, South African Journal of Philosophy, 40(3); pp 319-334
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L., Ayelazuno, J.A., and Akonnor, A. (2019). The Petrochemicals Industry and Land/Ocean Grabs in Ghana: Interrogating the Role of the Ghanaian Neoliberal State. Greenhill Journal of Leadership and Governance (GJLG) 1 (1): 77-93.
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. Ayelazuno, J.A. (2019). Large-scale Mining and Ecological Imperialism: The Politics of Mining and Ecological Preservation in Ghana. Journal of Political Ecology, Vol. 26. No. 1: 243-262.
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. Ayelazuno, J.A. (2019). Development Failures in Ghana, Development Miracles in Asia: Whither the Africa Rising? African and Asian Studies 18: 124-152
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2014) From Resistance to Acquiescence? Neoliberal Reform, Students Activism and Political Change in Ghana, Postcolonial Text, Vol 8, No 3

 

Prof Lord Mawuko-Yevugah

Department

Public Management and International Relations

Lord Mawuko-Yevugah is currently an Associate Professor of Political Economy and International Relations. He is the immediate past Director of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance. He was also the founding Head of Department for Public Management and International Relations, and the Founding Coordinator of the PhD program at the GIMPA School of Public Service and Governance. He is the Editor of the Institute’s interdisciplinary Journal, the Greenhill Journal of Leadership and Governance, and serves as the Affiliation Coordinator of the Kof Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC).

He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta in Canada, specializing in international relations and comparative political economy. He studied for MPhil in Development Studies as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Cambridge in the UK, having graduated with Bachelor of Arts (First Class Hons.) in Political Science and Linguistics from the University of Ghana, Legon.

Prior to joining GIMPA, Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah held a Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Research Fellowship at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Before that, he had held faculty appointments at the University of Alberta and Athabasca University, both in Canada and at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He is affiliated with Graduate Institute of International Relations and Development, Geneva serving as an External Faculty of the master’s in development policies and Practices (DPP) Programme.

Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah is a member of several professional associations and is a life-time Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Society (FCCS). He was a winner of the Commonwealth Essay Competition, and a recipient of the Young Scholars Fellowship of the American Society of Public Administration. He was part of a team of researchers nominated by the African Union to develop Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). He is an external examiner for universities both within and outside Ghana and is a visiting scholar and trainer of trainers at the South African National School of Government. He also serves as a Senior Consultant at the UK-based Humanities Research Consultancy.

Apart from being an astute and internationally recognized academic, Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah worked as a journalist, serving as the Features Editor of the Business and Financial Times. He also worked with the Institute of Economic Affairs, Ghana as a Research Associate, and the Programme Officer of the Institute’s Governance unit.

Professor Mawuko-Yevugah is the founding Director and the Lead Researcher of the Pan-Africanist think tank, Centre for African Diplomacy and Global Engagement (www.afroglobals.org).

  • PhD, Political Science (University of Alberta, Canada).
  • MPhil, Development Studies (Cambridge University, UK)
  • BA (First Class Hons), Political Science & Linguistics (University of Ghana, Legon)
  • International and Comparative Political Economy
  • Politics of International Aid and Development Cooperation
  • Critical Development Theory
  • Critical Social/post-colonial Theory
  • Critical Development Theory
  • Human Rights in the Petro-chemical Industrial Complex
  • Climate Change and Ecological Imperialism
  • Emerging Powers and Geo-economics
  • Discourse Analysis
  • International Political Economy;
  • Public/Foreign Policy Analysis;
  • Communication and Writing Skills
  • Public Sector Legal and Regulatory Framework
  • Africa in World Politics
  • Human Rights in Global Politics
  • Regionalism & Regional Integration

Selected Publications

Books

  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2018). Made in Ghana: Reflections on Governance and Power Shifts. (Accra: University of Ghana Press)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2016). Reinventing Development: Aid Reform and Technologies of Government in Ghana (London/New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2013). African Time: Essays on Contemporary Politics and Governance, Bloomington: (Bloomington: AuthorHouse)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. And P. Ugor, eds. (2015) African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World: Challenges, Agency and Resistance (Ashgate Publishing Company).

Book Chapters

  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. and Ayelazuno, J. A. (2020). Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Economy of Africa. In Oloruntoba, S.O (Ed), Handbook of African Political Economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. and Ayelazuno, J.A. (2019). Liberal Democracy and Civil Society from “below” in Ghana: Can the Subalterns Act? In Ayee, J.A.A. (ed), Politics, Governance and Development in Ghana. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2019) “Politicizing Economic Reform in Africa: Ghana’s Political Economic Framework” In Aidoo, R. (ed) The Politics of Economic Reform in Ghana (Routledge, London/New York)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2015) “Tertiary Education Reform, Students Resistance and Political Reform in Contemporary Ghana” In Ugor, P.& Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (eds) 2016. African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World: Challenges, Agency and Resistance (Ashgate Publishing Company)
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2014) “ICTs and the (re)production of development knowledge in Africa” In Amoah, L.G (ed) Impacts of the Knowledge Society on Economic and Social Growth in Africa, IGI Global: Hershey, PA.
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2013). “Political Economy of Development and Policy Outcomes in Postcolonial Africa” in Takyiwa Manuh and Esi Sutherland-Addy (eds) Africa in Contemporary Perspective, Accra, Sub-Saharan Publishers
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2010). “From Exclusion to Inclusion? A study of Civil Society Participation in Ghana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Process” In Puplampu K.P. and Tettey, W.J. (editors). Public Sphere and the Politics of Survival — Voice, Sustainability and Public Policy in Ghana, Accra, Woeli Publishing

Journal Articles

  • Ayelazuno, J.A. & Lord Mawuko-Yevugah (2021) “Between the Africa Mining Vision and neo-patrimonial states: the agency-gap in Ghana’s regulation of artisanal and small-scale gold mining”, South African Journal of International Affairs, 28:4
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L and Attipoe, H (2021). “Chieftaincy and Traditional Authority in Modern Democratic Ghana”, South African Journal of Philosophy, 40(3); pp 319-334
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L., Ayelazuno, J.A., and Akonnor, A. (2019). The Petrochemicals Industry and Land/Ocean Grabs in Ghana: Interrogating the Role of the Ghanaian Neoliberal State. Greenhill Journal of Leadership and Governance (GJLG) 1 (1): 77-93.
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. Ayelazuno, J.A. (2019). Large-scale Mining and Ecological Imperialism: The Politics of Mining and Ecological Preservation in Ghana. Journal of Political Ecology, Vol. 26. No. 1: 243-262.
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. Ayelazuno, J.A. (2019). Development Failures in Ghana, Development Miracles in Asia: Whither the Africa Rising? African and Asian Studies 18: 124-152
  • Mawuko-Yevugah, L. (2014) From Resistance to Acquiescence? Neoliberal Reform, Students Activism and Political Change in Ghana, Postcolonial Text, Vol 8, No 3

 

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