#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - Good Governance as Responsible Sovereignty: Francis Deng and the Conflict–Development Nexus - https://cup.org/4fIyOSk - @connorpobrien.bsky.social #FirstView

Thrilled to have published my first journal article with @poppublicsphere.bsky.social ! It draws from my doctoral thesis on the diplomatic and intellectual history of the good governance agenda.

Perspectives on Politics@poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 3d ago

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Good #Governance as #Responsible #Sovereignty: Francis Deng & the Conflict–Development Nexus By @connorpobrien.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Wonderful to have a contribution among these incredible and thoughtful scholars trying to make sense of the Silicon Valley technology elite and corporate forms of power and sovereignty 👇👇

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 8mo ago

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order - https://cup.org/3KZzRly - @maharafiatal.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social, @sethschindler.bsky.social, Sarah Logan et al

Heading up to Boston for our 2025 @hpe-project.bsky.social grantees research conference. This year’s theme is ‘Two, Three, Many Developmentalisms,’ and we have keynotes from Sarah Bellows-Blakely and Joel Suarez.

Very grateful for the opportunity to receive feedback from the @hpe-project.bsky.social community on my doctoral project, after receiving a HPE summer grant to conduct further archival and interview research in Geneva and Paris

The History and Political Economy Project@hpe-project.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In our final session of the day, Connor O'Brien (@connorpobrien.bsky.social, Cambridge) zoomed in for a presentation on the history of "good governance" in the context of struggles over development and political authority around the globe.

Had a great time chatting with Connor O’Brien about little known financial tool called debt for nature swaps, the colonial history of sovereign debt and finance systems, and why finance guys are trying to offshore the planet. open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...

Why Finance Guys Are Trying to Offshore the Planet

COP30: A Conversation with Connor O'Brien

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Very grateful for the opportunity to receive feedback from the @hpe-project.bsky.social community on my doctoral project, after receiving a HPE summer grant to conduct further archival and interview research in Geneva and Paris

The History and Political Economy Project@hpe-project.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In our final session of the day, Connor O'Brien (@connorpobrien.bsky.social, Cambridge) zoomed in for a presentation on the history of "good governance" in the context of struggles over development and political authority around the globe.

The AUKUS review poses a fundamental challenge to the U.S.-Australia relationship, and Australian foreign policy generally. Three books consider the future of the alliance itself.

If AUKUS Is Toast, What Should Australia Do Next?

Amid Elbridge Colby’s review of the submarine deal, three books consider the future of the alliance itself.

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Great to publish this @foreignpolicy.com review essay on the future of Australian foreign policy

Foreign Policy@foreignpolicy.com · last yr.

The AUKUS review poses a fundamental challenge to the U.S.-Australia relationship, and Australian foreign policy generally. Three books consider the future of the alliance itself.

Australia is far too small to shape the regional balance of power via military means, and its defence spending will remain a rounding error in comparison to the US and China This is the inconvenient truth ignored by many pro-AUKUS commentators www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

Australia should stop pretending to be a military hegemon

With its defence spending akin to a rounding error in comparison to China and the US, Australia must find other ways to exert power.

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“Australia is particularly well placed to shape the medium- and long-term economic determinants of the regional distribution of power,” writes Connor O’Brien in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/australia-should-stop-pretending-be-military-hegemon

Australia should stop pretending to be a military hegemon

With its defence spending akin to a rounding error in comparison to China and the US, Australia must find other ways to exert power.

lowyinstitute.org

As the debate about Australian defence commitments and AUKUS heats up, it’s worth questioning what all this spending is meant to be for To boost regional ties, Australia should instead be prioritising decisive multilateral action on trade, sovereign debt, and climate finance

The Lowy Institute@lowyinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

“Australia is particularly well placed to shape the medium- and long-term economic determinants of the regional distribution of power,” writes Connor O’Brien in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/australia-should-stop-pretending-be-military-hegemon

"After first emerging in the interwar years, offshore tax havens proliferated during the era of decolonization. Postcolonial self-determination prompted the flight of imperial capital to offshore jurisdictions, many of which were current or former British dependent territories."

Offshoring the Planet | Connor O'Brien

A battle for jurisdictional control lies at the heart of the global green transition.

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Thanks @phenomenalworld.bsky.social for publishing my essay ‘Offshoring the Planet’

Phenomenal World@phenomenalworld.bsky.social · last yr.

"Debt-for-nature swaps and carbon credit trading represent the expansion of the offshore phenomenon as a logic of global South statecraft." NEW, Connor O'Brien on jurisdictional control over biodiversity and climate finance

"Debt-for-nature swaps and carbon credit trading represent the expansion of the offshore phenomenon as a logic of global South statecraft." NEW, Connor O'Brien on jurisdictional control over biodiversity and climate finance

Offshoring the Planet | Connor O'Brien

A battle for jurisdictional control lies at the heart of the global green transition.

phenomenalworld.org

In my @phenomenalworld.bsky.social essay ‘Offshoring the Planet’, I explore how the offshore world is reshaping the global green transition (a 🧵1/7) t.co/8j7i8iXAIk

In my @phenomenalworld.bsky.social essay ‘Offshoring the Planet’, I explore how the offshore world is reshaping the global green transition (a 🧵1/7) t.co/8j7i8iXAIk

Thanks @phenomenalworld.bsky.social for publishing my essay ‘Offshoring the Planet’

Phenomenal World@phenomenalworld.bsky.social · last yr.

"Debt-for-nature swaps and carbon credit trading represent the expansion of the offshore phenomenon as a logic of global South statecraft." NEW, Connor O'Brien on jurisdictional control over biodiversity and climate finance

🚨CRIA is soliciting special issue proposals that contribute to scholarly debate and which examine pertinent and topical theoretical, empirical and methodological questions ⬇️ Deadline: 11 June

On 28 May, CRIA is running an ECR workshop on 'The Global Politics of the Green Transition'! Abstract submissions close on 7 April.

"Whatever the economy is, its reality does not exist independent of our ability to account for it." NEW: An adapted excerpt from The Real Economy by Jonathan Levy, out now from Princeton University Press.

The Real Economy | Phenomenal World

No discipline in the humanities or social sciences today has a convincing theory of the economy. Long preoccupied with honing methods, the core of the discipline of economics has abandoned investigati...

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CRIA is hosting a roundtable on 'Concept Formation and Historical IR' (SA30) to kickoff our presence at the 2025 Chicago International Studies Association conference @isanet.bsky.social. Come along to The Barbershop (Blackstone Hotel) from 8:15am for a great discussion!

Excited to be joining @alktaif.bsky.social as co-editor of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs @cambridgecria.bsky.social CRIA welcomes submissions on international affairs topics from across the social sciences!

My new essay with @akentikelenis.bsky.social on green technology transfers in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tec...

Transfer and Transition | Benjamin Bradlow & Alexandros Kentikelenis

Technology transfer is a necessity for a just global green transformation

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Our Emeritus Professor Anne Phillips has a joint review of the recent books on (in)equality by Paul Sagar, Darrin M McMahon, @brankomilan.bsky.social sky.social and @laywilliams.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/S9TIH...

If the suspense was killing you, never fear! The episode with @rowenasquires.bsky.social is now available! We discuss the depiction of outer space colonialism in children's animation — from WALL-E, to Treasure Planet, to Disney's ex-Nazi rocket scientist open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...

The Final Fun-Tier: WALL-E, Treasure Planet and Disney’s Nazi Rocket Scientist

A Conversation with Rowena Squires

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Dr Alina Utrata@alinau27.bsky.social · 2y ago

Tomorrow's Anti-Dystopians episode is going to be OUT OF THIS WORLD...be sure to set your alarms to listen

Scary stuff by @laurielaybourn.bsky.social and @jamesgyke.bsky.social on the climate-inflation doom loop: As climate disruption kicks off, prices go up, central bankers hike and angry voters derail democratic systems, setting the stage for more disruption. theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...

A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning

Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.

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Check out my latest with @beaubaumann.bsky.social at @lpeblog.bsky.social: Legislative institutions and procedures will either work for or against the broader progressive agenda. It's time for LPE scholars to give more attention to fixing Congress. lpeproject.org/blog/what-do...

What Does LPE Have to Say About Congress?

In recent years, the LPE movement has generated compelling positions on the limits of the courts and the promise of the administrative state. Yet it is striking how little it has had to say about…

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This is an absolutely insane story - a must read!

Chris Bertram@crookedfootball.bsky.social · 2y ago

Annals of UK higher education. This is an extraordinary story.

I don't think climate policy folks have really wrestled w. how to deal with the IMMENSE concentration of wealth in the global economy. It creates a vicious feedback among "liberal" democracies. Gov’ts are beholden to firms that "support" their economies – in an increasingly volatile fashion. 1/2