https://hdl.handle.net/10419/264338 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:13:51 GMT 2026-09-23T04:13:51Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/331371 Title: Fiscally constrained developmentalism: IPCEIs and the development of innovative European industrial policy Authors: Elg, Alexander Abstract: How did Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) become one of Europe's most potent yet underexamined industrial policy tools? This paper answers that question by tracing how IPCEIs evolved into a legal and fiscal workaround within the EU's state aid regime. Unlike existing work that treats IPCEIs as contemporary instruments, this is the first study undertaking a historical analysis of the Commission's legal rulings and administrative interventions. Using archival research, participant observation, and expert interviews, it shows how the Commission leveraged innovation rhetoric and legal discretion to carve out space for strategic public investment in what some scholars term a developmental network state. Born in the 1970s energy crises, IPCEIs grew from ad hoc national responses into a supranational mechanism for steering critical industries. The paper highlights an underappreciated developmental mindset within EU institutions - revealing a fiscally constrained yet quietly interventionist evolution not easily accommodated by the "derisking state" framework. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10419/331371 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/331372 Title: Anticipating the bonanza: The politics of natural resources, elite accumulation and conflict in Mozambique Authors: Macuane, José Jaime; Buur, Lars; Salimo, Padil Abstract: This article investigates the relationship between patterns of elite accumulation and conflict dynamics in Mozambique's natural-resource economy, with a specific focus on the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province. Utilizing the politics of anticipation and the accumulation by dispossession and political settlement approaches, the research analyses the evolving rent-seeking strategies of the ruling Frelimo coalition. Furthermore, it examines how the government's response to the insurgency, especially the involvement of Rwandan forces, can be integrated into the existing accumulation paradigm. The article argues that elite accumulation, characterized by alliances between ruling elite factions and international investors, has significantly marginalized local communities, contributing to conflict dynamics through four main mechanisms: the exclusion of local populations from economic benefits, the concentration of resource rents among ruling elite factions, the leveraging of anticipated future revenues, and intra-coalition factional competition that influences resource management. It concludes that competitive clientelism within Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party, combined with ruling elite control over rent distribution, is playing a crucial role in shaping resource-related conflict dynamics. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10419/331372 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/315093 Title: The development of political settlements in Tanzania: Implications for social cash transfers Authors: Mwinuka, Lutengano; Macha, Raphael R.; Kilonzo, Rehema G.; Buur, Lars; Nystrand, Malin J. Abstract: The aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual and theoretical framework for the political settlement and dynamics of social contract relations in Tanzania. The political settlement approach is employed within a theoretical framework that has been developed and applied to analyse political processes related to economic policies and development in Africa and elsewhere. Our analysis focuses on the distribution of power in Tanzanian society. Social contract theory is used to examine different regimes' relationships with Tanzania's population from independence in 1961 until the mid-1990s, when liberal reforms were introduced. The study suggest that, despite changes in leadership regimes, political settlements in Tanzania have remained remarkably stable since independence, supported by a fairly consistent social contract-type relationship between the ruling CCM elites, the state, and Tanzanian citizens. The political settlement has evolved from centralized state socialism to a mixed economy, accompanied by a range of liberal reforms that have transformed the economy and governance, and introduced multiparty competition. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10419/315093 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/315090 Title: Echoes from Mozambique: Did the idea of high modernism vanish? Authors: Buur, Lars; Jacob, Thabit Abstract: Mozambique has become a significant destination for a diverse portfolio of investments in mining, liquid natural gas, power plants, industrial complexes and large-scale agricultural schemes. Acquiring investments across sectors has re-emerged as a top national priority, though few of these projects are actually new. Most if not all of these grand plans were among the post-independence, MarxistLeninist, high-modernism and state-led development plans that were pursued in Mozambique in the 1970s and 1980s. Given that more or less identical plans from the 1970s are enjoying a resurgence currently, this article asks whether this means they are still embedded in ideas associated with highmodernism and grand ideas of social transformation? What characterizes today's plans in contrast to those of the heyday of the big state-led ideas about industry and infrastructural development that blossomed after independence in 1975? This article argues that the present attempts to implement investments are no longer embedded in the grand visions and ideas of social transformation that characterized high modernism, but are more concerned with creating opportunities for key constituencies in order to reproduce power. Present projects therefore come closer to the positions of illiberal modernizers by emphasizing modernization and transformative state-building in order to reproduce the authoritarian ruling Frelimo party while upholding idea semblance of formal liberal democracy. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10419/315090 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z