Peer-reviewed Publications

• Bougrea, A., & Vermeiren, M. (2025). Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? Multilateral development banks and the trilemma of private capital mobilization. Competition & Change, 10245294251343426.

• Bougrea, A. (2025). The European Investment Bank in Sub-Saharan Africa: constrained expansion. Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 28(1), 12-36.

• Bougrea, A., Orbie, J., Vermeiren, M. (2022). The New European Financial Architecture for Development: Change or Continuity?. European Foreign Affairs Review, 27(3).

Book chapters

• Orbie, J. & Bougrea, A. (2025). International development: A distinct and challenged policy domain. Policy-making in the European Union, 9, 413-439. In Eds. Wallace, H., Pollack, M. A., Roederer-Rynning, C., & Young, A. R. (Eds.). (2025). Policy-making in the European Union. Oxford university press.

• Bougrea, A., & Orbie, J. (2024). From Wall Street to Schuman Square? Development finance in EU-OACPS relations. EU-Africa Relations in the Post-Cotonou Era. In Eds. Price, S., & Langan, M. (Eds.). (2025). Africa, the EU and the Samoa Agreement: Exploring African Agency Amid the ‘New Scramble’. Taylor & Francis.

Other Academic Publications

• Bougrea, A. (2026). Book Review. The World Bank: A Critical History: By Eric Toussaint London: Pluto Books, 2023, 432 pp., £45 (hardback), ISBN: 9780745348285 (hardback). The Journal of Development Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2026.2660440. [SSCI]
• Orbie, J., Alcazar III, A. S. M., Bougrea, A., Nagy, S., Oleart, A., Paz, J. C., … & Wodzka, I. (2023). Decolonizing Rather than Decentring ‘Europe’. European Foreign Affairs Review, 28(1), 1-8.

• Bougrea, A. (2022). Multi-Annual Indicative Programmes EU for Sub-Saharan Africa (2014-2021-2027). Zenodo.

Under Review

• Bougrea, Anissa & Staeger, Ueli. EU-Africa Relations and the Coloniality of Money: Analysing funding and financing. Journal of Common Market Studies – Revise & Resubmit – August 2026. [SSCI]
  
• Bougrea, Anissa & Xiaoye She. (2026) EU-ASEAN Cooperation Amid US-China Tensions: Toward Strategic Autonomy? In: L. Danner & B. Chand (Eds.) Europe-Asia Relations Amid U.S. Global Reorientation: Cooperation, Competition, and Strategic Realignment in a Multipolar World. Palgrave Macmillan.

Editorial work

• Van Coppenolle, H., Van de Graaf, T., Bouckaert, R., Vandenhole, K., Paredis, E., Praet, J., … Vermeiren, M. (2023). The Global Energy Crisis Eds. H. Van Coppenolle, S. Taghon, A. Bougrea, & T. Haesebrouck, Eds.). Ghent: Ghent University. Ghent Institute for International and European Studies (GIES).

Policy briefs & news articles

• Bougrea, A. & Gate, N. (2025). Reforming Multilateral Development Banks to strengthen locally led adaptation finance. G20/T20 South Africa.

• Bougrea, Anissa. (2020). How the EIB can take the climate into account. Apache

• Bougrea, Anissa (2020) 30+ News Articles at the Foreign Affairs desk of De Standaard.