What Are the Benefits of Joining WAPE?

The WAPE membership organization’s aim is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, new thought and research across the divide of languages and geography and offer its members access to certain benefits when joining WAPE.

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WAPE Membership

Standard Membership. The benefits to be a Standard Member include:

  • Publishing of members’ selected articles on our websites.
  • Translating selected books and articles into Chinese and publishing them in China.
  •  Invitations to attend a variety of conferences in China.
  • Scholars who are members may be invited to China on a lecture tour.
  • Members will be invited to join panels, which WAPE will organize for various international conferences held in different countries.

The membership fee for Standard Members is US$30 per year.

Council Membership. Council Members have the priority over all the benefits offered by WAPE for Standard Members. You will get free hard copies of the World Review of Political Economy (WRPE). Council Members are required to submit one paper to or call for one paper for WRPE, and review one paper for WRPE per year. The membership fee for Council Members is US$100 per year.

Low-income Membership. Low-income Membership is a discretionary rate of US$10 for students, retired and unemployed people, and part-time workers on reduced income.

  • Free digital copies of the organization’s well-respected peer reviewed academic journal, World Review of Political Economy (WRPE), which is published four times a year.

  • Publishing of members’ selected articles in WRPE and on our websites.

  • Translation of selected books and articles into Chinese and publishing them in China.

  • Invitations to attend a variety of conferences in China.

  • Scholars who are members may be invited to China on a lecture tour.

  • Members will be invited to join panels, which WAPE will organize for various international conferences held in different countries.

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