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Erik Voeten

@erikvoeten.bsky.social

Georgetown prof. Expect content on international politics, climate, soccer, and other random stuff. Views my own. Website: https://erikvoeten.georgetown.domains/

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Erik Voeten@erikvoeten.bsky.social · 3d ago

New article with @jonasheering.bsky.social in @nature.com Communications on the public backlash against data centers. In Germany, U.S. and Chinese operates get a nationality penalty that is often larger than large increases in electricity prices & environmental harm. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How sovereign control, decarbonization and energy costs shape public support for data centers - Nature Communications

Investigating how publics think about the environmental, economic, and geopolitical tradeoffs that data centers entail, results show that public opposition depends on pre-existing political cleavages ...

nature.com

Erik Voeten@erikvoeten.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Check out the @goodauth.bsky.social podcast and the @iojournal.bsky.social article (short, open access) that forms the basis of the conversation refers to.

Federica Genovese@fgenovese.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Good chatting with @erikvoeten.bsky.social about Jeff’s and my article on what Trump and the movement he represents will do to climate politics going forward. Come for the excellent questions, stay for me and Jeff trying to summarize and discuss what feels like 15 yrs of events since 2025. Paper:

Erik Voeten@erikvoeten.bsky.social · 8mo ago

And this article by @soyounglee.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social "The presence of capitalintensive resources-such as oil or minerals-raises concerns about how the benefits of acquiring the territory would be distributed within the nation." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Resources and Territorial Claims: Domestic Opposition to Resource-Rich Territory | International Organization | Cambridge Core

Resources and Territorial Claims: Domestic Opposition to Resource-Rich Territory - Volume 78 Issue 3

cambridge.org

Ken Schultz@kschultz.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Apropos current events, I want to tout this paper by @soyounglee.bsky.social showing that discussion of economic benefits can reduce public support for military action. People are skeptical when they think specific groups (e.g., oil companies) will benefit. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Domestic Distributional Roots of National Interest SOYOUNG LEE Yale University, United States, and Duke University, United States What international issues become national interests worth fighting for, and why? Contrary to conventional wisdom, I argue that issues without clear economic value, such as barren lands, are more likely to be perceived as national interests because they do not benefit any single domestic group. Since who benefits is unclear, politicians have an easier time framing such issues as benefiting the whole nation. I test this argument using survey experiments on the American public. The results show that first, issues providing diffuse benefits to citizens are more likely to be considered national interests than issues providing concentrated benefits to certain domestic groups. Second, issues with clearer economic value are harder to frame as having diffuse benefits because they are more easily associated with specific beneficiaries. This study proposes a new theory of national interest and offers a potential explanation for why people frequently support conflict over issues without obvious benefits.
Erik Voeten@erikvoeten.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Six months ago @profmichaelross.bsky.social and I wrote in Foreign Affairs that the US is increasingly behaving like a petrostate. Seems relevant today

Erik Voeten@erikvoeten.bsky.social · last yr.

I have a new short piece in Foreign Affairs with @profmichaelross.bsky.social arguing that "the United States’ emergence as the world’s leading oil and gas producer is a critical and often neglected element of today’s global disorder." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Erik Voeten@erikvoeten.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New paper with @jonasheering.bsky.social on public opposition to data center construction. We find that the nationality of the operator is even more important than very substantial increases in electricity costs.

Jonas Heering@jonasheering.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New working paper w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social on the hottest topic in town: data centers! We show how concerns about #digitalsovereignty, decarbonization, electricity costs & local environmental impacts shape public support for data center construction in #Germany. osf.io/preprints/so... 🧵 ⬇️

Erik Voeten@erikvoeten.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Europeans worry that accommodating Putin repeats past errors. My latest on @goodauth.bsky.social with findings from a new article "Voting with Putin" with Jana Lipps in @cpsjournal.bsky.social where we document mainstream and cultural conservative support for Putin goodauthority.org/news/why-eur...

Why Europeans are worried about appeasing Putin, again

Both mainstream European politicians and cultural conservatives have frequently voted to accommodate Putin.

goodauthority.org

Abe Newman@abenewman.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are on the brink of a once in a generation transformation in world politics. @erikvoeten.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social and I talk neo-royalism as one future. Give a list: goodauthority.org/news/the-new... Check out the article it is based on here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System | International Organization | Cambridge Core

Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System - Volume 79 Issue S1

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Erik Voeten@erikvoeten.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The new neo-royalist world order. Stacie Goddard and @abenewman.bsky.social explain how cliques are ruling the world. A new @goodauth.bsky.social podcast interview with yours truly based on the new @iojournal.bsky.social open access article that came out today! goodauthority.org/news/the-new...

Catherine E. de Vries@catherinedevries.bsky.social · 10mo ago

@erikvoeten.bsky.social has built his career on one goal: make ideas flow more freely. In this week’s Etched in Marble, we talked about writing, editing, & how to carry arguments beyond academia without losing their complexity. 🪶 New post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-... 🧵

Etched in Marble: Erik Voeten on Time, Clarity, and Moving Ideas Beyond Academia

Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧵New piece from me @goodauth.bsky.social on risks of striking Venezuela, focused on the added risk from Trump team of loyalists. Hint: it has to do with centralized role of Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, and the incompetence of advisers like SecDef Hegseth. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m...

Trump may strike Venezuela. His team makes that very risky.

Take a close look at who is advising the president on U.S. policy.

goodauthority.org

Abe Newman@abenewman.bsky.social · 10mo ago

1/When @himself.bsky.social and I wrote about the future of US economic coercion we hoped that the tools could be used for global collective goods like climate. Now US “evaluating sanctions on officials sponsoring activist-driven climate policies”’ on.ft.com/4qJF3Ko

US accused of ‘bully-boy’ tactics to sink climate deal

Officials say ‘threats’ used to derail net zero deal for shipping industry ripped up rules of global diplomacy

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Erik Voeten@erikvoeten.bsky.social · 11mo ago

As a Dutch friend, I agree with this and I don't think it means that votes will be "lost." It is up to the other parties to figure out how to attract those voters who really care about animal rights, pensions, Christianity and so on.

Simon Hix@simonhix.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I have just written a Substack piece with some scenarios of what would have happened in the recent Dutch election if there had been 4% electoral threshold (with apologies to my Dutch friends for banging on about this!) substack.com/home/post/p-...