Any doubt that private finance is procyclical af? The proof is in the pudding of the new arms race. A must-read on @phenomenalworld.bsky.social:

Alfredo Saad-Filho & Jack Taggart | Defense Dividends

The interpenetration of private finance and the military

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Jack Taggart@jacktaggart.bsky.social · 6d ago

New in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social w/@alfredosaadfilho.bsky.social. As geopolitical competition intensifies, major states are militarising, & private finance is investing across competing blocs. The prospect of durable peace is now at odds with the logic of financial returns. tinyurl.com/4s4fjwce

New in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social w/@alfredosaadfilho.bsky.social. As geopolitical competition intensifies, major states are militarising, & private finance is investing across competing blocs. The prospect of durable peace is now at odds with the logic of financial returns. tinyurl.com/4s4fjwce

Alfredo Saad-Filho & Jack Taggart | Defense Dividends

The interpenetration of private finance and the military

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Pour les lecteurs francophones, notre article "Politique industrielle et réalignement impérial" (écrit avec @tomchodor.bsky.social et @jacktaggart.bsky.social) est maintenant dispo en français, dans un num spécial de @gresea-asbl.bsky.social. Le PDF est téléchargeable ici : gresea.be/Politiques-i...

Politiques industrielles : le grand retour ? – Gresea

La politique industrielle est de retour. C'est ce qu'affirme le Fonds monétaire international (FMI) selon qui les États cherchent des remèdes aux « crises multiples et cumulatives […] associées à…

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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...

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...

Global environmental governance after liberal environmentalism: Review of International Political Economy @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @jacktaggart.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Global environmental governance after liberal environmentalism

Global environmental governance has long been predicated on a normative compromise, commonly referred to as ‘liberal environmentalism’, which posits that addressing global environmental challenges ...

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New article! How is finance ‘raced’, and why is this the case? With what consequences for our understandings of race, finance, and capitalism? To explore this, we develop a 'raced finance' analytic, grounded in political economy and racial capitalism debates. Link 👇🏾and 🧵:

Check out our new piece in @ripejournal.bsky.social on the petrochemical historical bloc, the UN Global Plastics Treaty, and the battle for plastic hegemony. This was a real labour of love and so glad to see this finally out!

Rob Ralston@policyrelevant.bsky.social · 4mo ago

new open access paper with colleagues @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @jptilsted.bsky.social in @ripejournal.bsky.social it offers a neo-gramscian perspective on the political economy of plastics / plastic pollution, exploring attempts by dominant actors to sustain 'plastic hegemony'

New article in @ripejournal.bsky.social w/ @sebhaug.bsky.social and Han Cheng on China's new Global Development Initiative. We contend that the GDI is a form of institutional layering that serves as a component of China's counter-hegemonic strategy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

new open access paper with colleagues @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @jptilsted.bsky.social in @ripejournal.bsky.social it offers a neo-gramscian perspective on the political economy of plastics / plastic pollution, exploring attempts by dominant actors to sustain 'plastic hegemony'

The battle for plastic hegemony: the petrochemical historical bloc and the UN Global Plastics Treaty

Plastics are a ubiquitous feature of contemporary consumer capitalism. Despite scientific evidence and public awareness of the mounting health and environmental impacts of plastics pollution, globa...

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Multilateralism continues to be challenged as leading states take unilateral actions. This article traces the shift away from multilateralism to explore the emergence of a non-hegemonic world. @iliasalami.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social@tomchodor.bsky.social 

Non-Hegemony | Phenomenal World

The neoliberal world order is collapsing. In its wake, powerful states have abandoned multilaterialism in pursuit of national aims.

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Over at Phenomenal World, @iliasalami.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social, and @tomchodor.bsky.social consider the causes and consequences of the emerging post-multilateral world.

Non-Hegemony | Phenomenal World

The neoliberal world order is collapsing. In its wake, powerful states have abandoned multilaterialism in pursuit of national aims.

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'Post-multilateralism': so hot right now

Tom Chodor@tomchodor.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 New article w/ @jacktaggart.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social examining the structural drivers of the crisis of the "rules-based order" & the emerging non-hegemonic order characterised by unmaking of multilateralism 👇 www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/non...

New piece for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, written with @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @tomchodor.bsky.social! It's an attempt at grasping the dismantling of multilateral global governance, in light of intensifying geopolitical rivalries, resurgent state capitalism, and hegemonic crisis. Link below:

Our forum on oligarchic sovereignty is now available from @risjnl.bsky.social! And for free, thanks to the University of Glasgow. A very affordable holiday gift for anyone in your life trying to better understand our new world of tech billionaires' massive wealth and political power.

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

What is "oligarchic sovereignty" and can it explain the tech bro seizure of the US government and its effects on the world? I discuss with some very thoughtful colleagues here: cup.org/3KZzRly Free to read as a Christmas gift to you all:

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

#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

new article in @reggovjournal.bsky.social that examines how corporations engage in 'venue hopping' as a means to advance agendas in multiple spaces and at multiple levels This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world

Corporate Power in a Multistakeholder World: Venue Hopping and the Multilevel Politics of Ultra‐Processed Food

The regulation of business is increasingly characterized by “soft” governance regimes that blur the boundaries of public and private authority, as signaled by the rapid proliferation of multistakehol...

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“There is little cause for celebration: progress has been dismal.” Excellent article by @benjaminfaude.bsky.social @jacktaggart.bsky.social who argue that the global governance of the Sustainable Development Goals has undermined progress. theloop.ecpr.eu/the-sustaina...

The Sustainable Development Goals at 10: how global governance is undermining progress

This month marks ten years since the adoption of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Yet there is little cause for celebration: progress has been dismal. Benjamin Faude and Jack Taggart argue that...

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The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🌎 This month marks 10 years since the adoption of the UN’s #SustainableDevelopmentGoals. Yet there is little cause for celebration. 🗣️ @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & @jacktaggart.bsky.social argue that the global governance of the goals has undermined progress. #SDGs 👉 bit.ly/4nyzUCE

Please check out not only this piece by @jacktaggart.bsky.social & myself, but also our Special Section on 'The SDGs at 10' in @globalpolicy.bsky.social.

The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🌎 This month marks 10 years since the adoption of the UN’s #SustainableDevelopmentGoals. Yet there is little cause for celebration. 🗣️ @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & @jacktaggart.bsky.social argue that the global governance of the goals has undermined progress. #SDGs 👉 bit.ly/4nyzUCE

new blog by @benjaminfaude.bsky.social and @jacktaggart.bsky.social on the UN SDGs, drawing on a recent special issue in @globalpolicy.bsky.social lots of great contributions, including a paper by myself and Jack Taggart on institutional hybridity in global plastics governance

The Sustainable Development Goals at 10: how global governance is undermining progress

This month marks ten years since the adoption of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Yet there is little cause for celebration: progress has been dismal. Benjamin Faude and Jack Taggart argue that...

theloop.ecpr.eu

🌎 This month marks 10 years since the adoption of the UN’s #SustainableDevelopmentGoals. Yet there is little cause for celebration. 🗣️ @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & @jacktaggart.bsky.social argue that the global governance of the goals has undermined progress. #SDGs 👉 bit.ly/4nyzUCE

The Sustainable Development Goals at 10: how global governance is undermining progress

This month marks ten years since the adoption of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Yet there is little cause for celebration: progress has been dismal. Benjamin Faude and Jack Taggart argue that...

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We're advertising not one but TWO permanent(!) Lecturer positions at the mighty QUB: one in International Relations and one in International Public Policy. Deadline for both 13th October. Details -> www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QUBJob...

Last chance to register for the online launch of our Ethics & International Affairs Roundtable "Global Governance in Hard Times".

Benjamin Faude@benjaminfaude.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Please join us for the launch of our E&IA Roundtable: 'Global Governance in Hard Times.' Presentations: Faude+Karlsrud; @yoramhaftel.bsky.social & @stephofmann.bsky.social; @ninareiners.bsky.social; Julia Morse; @mstephen.bsky.social. Comments: @hbirk.bsky.social; @tsommerer.bsky.social. Details:

Registration for online and in-person attendance of our special section launch event on the global governance of the SDGs at 10 is still open! Click here to register tinyurl.com/534s96an

Jack Taggart@jacktaggart.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Ten years since the UN's adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals & both the agenda and multilateralism are in a sorry state. Join us in-person at Durham Castle or online for a special section launch event on the global governance of the SDGs. To register click here: tinyurl.com/534s96an

The SDGs at 10: Please join us for a Special Section Launch event on Friday 12 September 14:00-17:00 (BST). Contributions by Faude & @jacktaggart.bsky.social; @policyrelevant.bsky.social; @danxuu.bsky.social; K. Abraham; J. Loginovic & @docstushi.bsky.social; B. Reinsberg. Comments: Fariborz Zelli

The Sustainable Development Goals at 10: Celebration or Commiseration? Please join us for a half-day special section launch event marking the tenth anniversary of the UN’s 2030 Agenda on Friday 12th September, 14:00 – 17:00 (BST), Bishop’s Dining Suite, Durham Castle & Online. Details here:

Ten years since the UN's adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals & both the agenda and multilateralism are in a sorry state. Join us in-person at Durham Castle or online for a special section launch event on the global governance of the SDGs. To register click here: tinyurl.com/534s96an

Delighted to see this paper out, co-written with Julia Loginovic where we think about what the #SDGs mean. Rather than concern for their apparent failure we argue they do exactly what they're supposed to: commodify and socialise ever more parts of the world under so-called "neoliberal" hegemony ...

Global Policy@globalpolicy.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Early View Article United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Hybrid Institutional Complexes as Hegemony-Building? www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/cli...