So nice to see this piece out with @jacktaggart.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social and Peter Dauvergne on global environmental governance in a fracturing liberal political economy... We talk about climate, food and plastics governance as liberal norms erode...

Jack Taggart@jacktaggart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What happens to global environmental governance when the liberal world economy underpinning it fragments? New piece in @ripejournal.bsky.social, w/ Peter Dauvergne, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social & @policyrelevant.bsky.social. We ask what comes after ‘liberal environmentalism’. doi.org/10.1080/0969...

Droht nicht gerade Deindustrialisierung durch die größte Ölkrise der Geschichte?

Without energy efficiency, the EU would need — and pay — 31% more for energy today. Since 2000, efficiency has removed 265 Mtoe of demand from the market entirely. The best protection against a price shock is not finding cheaper oil and gas. It's needing less of it.

Lars Klingbeil war angezogen wie der Totengräber der deutschen Sozialdemokratie, schwarzer Anzug, dunkle Krawatte, Trauerflor. Und das, was er zu sagen hatte, ließ wenig Raum für Optimismus. Lieber sprach er von Opfern. Aber wer will solche Politik? Mein Substack: open.substack.com/pub/georgdie...

Visionen als sozialdemokratisches Problem

Lars Klingbeil, die SPD und die Frage der Zukunft

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eine der Pathologien des pol. Zentrismus ist, dass man bis zum bitteren Ende glaubt, man könnte mit den Feinden der offenen Gesellschaft diskutieren und evtl. etwas 'lernen'. Glaubt ihnen, wenn sie sagen, wer sie sind und wo sie stehen.

Jonas Schaible@beimwort.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Was die Spperspitze der westlichen Elite bei Klaviermusik von Ludovico Einaudi auf Schloss Elmau gelassen mit Curtis Yarvin diskutiert:

The US clean energy manufacturing investment bust really is dramatic, and not slowing down. Great investment tracker maintained by @jayturner.bsky.social and students. www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...

What Tarik says. Hinzu kommt: soziale Medien sind nicht das Problem, sondern die Milliärdäre und Oligarchen, denen diese Firmen gehören. Warum sollte ein kommerzfreier öffentlicher digitaler Raum mit Spielregeln und unter demokratischer Kontrolle schlecht für Jugendliche sein?

Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Die Debatte zu Jugendlichen und sozialen Medien passiert fast ausschließlich unter der Annahme, dass junge Menschen zuhause sicher, unterstützt und akzeptiert sind. Die Realität ist natürlich eine andere. Soziale Medien sind eben auch eine Möglichkeit mit dieser Realität umzugehen.

Deutschlands hastiger LNG-Schwenk droht in eine neue Abhängigkeit zu führen – diesmal von den USA. In einer geoökonomischen Welt ist Dekarbonisierung kein Ballast, sondern unabdingbar für strategische Autonomie, zeigen @mbabic.bsky.social & @danmertens.bsky.social:

Die Geoökonomie der Dekarbonisierung im deutschen Exportmodell

Deutschlands hastiger LNG-Schwenk droht in eine neue Abhängigkeit zu führen – diesmal von den USA. Der Versuch, Industrie und Exportmodell zu schützen, hat die Energiewende gebremst und einen gefährli...

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Geoökonomische Schocks sind mehr als Preisschocks. @mbabic.bsky.social & @danmertens.bsky.social zeigen, warum #Dekarbonisierung geopolitisch kein Ballast ist, sondern Autonomie + Resilienz stärken kann. 👉 makronom.de/die-geooekon... @makronom.bsky.social #econ4future #Geoökonomie #Energiewende #LNG

🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 doi.org/10.1177/0032...

New paper in CNS: 'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR' This link gives full access ⤵️ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF... An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️

RIPE is delighted to welcome @mbabic.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam) as a new editor at RIPE from January 2026. His work explores the shift from neoliberal to post-neoliberal order—especially changing state/corporate power and how to decarbonise large state-owned firms. milanbabic.com

A new politics, rising out of the void. This is breathtakingly beautiful.

The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 7mo ago

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while the richest person on the planet cannot shut up about satellites, we mere mortals (w. @joschabels.bsky.social) are left to study the pesky cables here down on earth in the mud (or rather on the seabed). Check what we found out in our new open access paper in Globalizations: lnkd.in/ep4q94XK

Holy hell, what an obituary

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

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@abenewman.bsky.social is right. There is an alternative. as.ft.com/r/7b8f914c-f...

Europe should embrace the idea of going it alone

[FREE TO READ] The more the EU has to pay for ingratiation with Trump, the less convincing its strategic rationale for doing so

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Abe Newman@abenewman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

1/EU grovels as Greenland tries to assert itself. This is not how you project strength. But how you become a vassal. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Mit David Vogel sprach ich letztes Jahr über das Ende der neoliberalen Globalisierung. David hat daraus einen richtig guten Podcast gemacht, inklusive soundbites von Reagan, Thatcher und Gerhard Schröder (what's not to like?). Das Ergebnis könnt ihr hier nachhören: www.nzz.ch/podcast/gren...

Grenzen dicht, Zölle zurück: Ist das Ende der neoliberalen Globalisierung erreicht?

Für den Politökonomen Milan Babic hat das Zeitalter der Geoökonomie begonnen.

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Zölle, Handelskriege, Industriepolitik: Ist die neoliberale Globalisierung vorbei? Und falls ja, was kommt danach? @mbabic.bsky.social bringt die großen Verschiebungen auf den Begriff der Geoökonomisierung. @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social (@mpifg.bsky.social) hat das Buch für uns rezensiert @suhrkamp.de

Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Milan Babić: Geoökonomie: Anatomie der neuen Weltordnung

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RIPE enters 2026 with an editorial transition. Huge thanks to outgoing team @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social, @skostem.bsky.social, Kevin Young & Hongying Wang! In the next few days, we’ll introduce new editors: @johannespetry.bsky.social, @alibhagat.bsky.social, Ida Bastiaens & @mbabic.bsky.social.

The decision to finance arms for Ukraine through collective EU debt is taboo-breaking--but also part of a larger security turn in Europe. Ophelia Bentley & I have a new piece out that shows how the EU has geopoliticized markets in an unexpected arena: competition policy. doi.org/10.1017/elo.... 1/

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

Every billionaire is a policy failure, example 3290853 www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...

The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate

Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites are building mega-families—testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them.

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one week left to submit your abstracts for next year's SASE conference in Bordeaux 👇👇👇

SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics@sasemeeting.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🌍📈 Introducing Network V: Geoeconomics SASE welcomes a new research network exploring the intersections of geopolitics, international political economy, and national capitalist systems in a time of global transformation. 🔗 Learn more about the new network: sase.org/networks/v-geoeconomics

Back when Dems governed like they meant business.

Cutting Through The Noise How can we not only cultivate our pessimism of the intellect, but also foster an optimism of the political will against all odds? In this #ISRFbulletin contribution, @mbabic.bsky.social suggests three avenues that might help with this task. isrf.org/blog/cutting...

Cutting through the noise

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Interesting thing about the debate around ‘populism’ is that the concern about populism on the right is that it can destroy democracy and human rights, and the worry about the left is that … well they have nice ideas but maybe some of them might be hard to put into practice

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Unerwartet, trotzdem da: Rossmann Deutsche Bank Antifa.

Regine Paul, Vali Stan and I have analysed how deeply #AI is entangled in global politics and corporate profit-hunting. “The AI Matrix” is the result – and the digital book-version is open access: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (Link doesn't work? Try this one: www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/M...)

The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates. Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal. Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.