Excellent new article on expertise in @risjnl.bsky.social - by Ole Jacob Sending and Paul Beaumont 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Governance by indicators and the re-politicisation of expertise - https://cup.org/467WBaf - @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & Ole Jacob Sending #FirstView

📣 Yet another SI for you, folks! Delighted to announce the publication of a @gepjournal.bsky.social special issue on “Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene”, co-edited with my dear colleague Bruna Bosi-Moreira. 👉 direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...

Volume 25 Issue 3 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

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"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people." Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

We’re c.2004 in the crypto-banking nexus. Everyone thinks they’re a stable genius & society is hailing them as such. But eventually the tide will go out & the inevitable Buffett moment will be incredibly ugly & costly. It always is. Over & over & over again. We keep forgetting what we’ve learned.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2y ago

Speculation in crypto, in & of itself, isn't a financial stability problem. What makes it so is that deregulation + large global capital inflows + large banks speculating with that capital will trigger a 2008-style systemic banking crisis. This is a regular, predictable pattern across space & time.

🐳 🥳 Happy news to share! My book - The Grammar of Status Competition - has been awarded the Jeffrey Friedman Best Book Award: The APSA's Knowledge, Ideas and Politics section book prize. This is the first - and perhaps last! - academic award I have ever received, so it means a lot. 1/4

📢 The volume "Governing Nature and the Making of World Order", edited by the great team of @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @lucasdopaes.bsky.social, is out now. And it's OA. 👇 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-o...

An excellent combination Matt! I would just add that the book is very flexible: pairs well with all known liquids. Thanks for your outstanding contribution! It is consistent with your much appreciated dedication to the project that you have gotten ahead of the editors on the promotion! :)

Matt McDonald@mattuq.bsky.social · last yr.

The latest in my book & beer series (it’s been a while) is this wonderful collection I was privileged to contribute to, edited by brilliant colleagues at @nupinytt.bsky.social- @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @lucasdopaes.bsky.social. Paired with a Range Hazy IPA!

If climate finance only flows to what’s bankable, how do we fund what's actually necessary? My research contributes to the boon in evidence showing how derisking locks governments into private finance-oriented & ineffective transitions - leaving essential but unbankable sectors behind

🎯 Open research positions! We’re hiring three Postdoctoral candidates/Senior Researchers for Navigator – an ERC-funded project exploring how country performance indicators shape global governance. 📍Oslo | 🕐 Initial 2-year contract Apply here: www.nupi.no/en/about-nup...

Those crazy hippies at the Financial Times are at it again. Why are our governments so afraid to face reality? who are they actually being led by? certainly not their voters.

Very happy to see my piece "The power of recognition: rethinking the instrumentality of status in world politics" being published in @iajournal.bsky.social Read the full OA-article here: academic.oup.com/ia/article/d...

The power of recognition: rethinking the instrumentality of status in world politics

Challenging the conventional view that status translates to power through voluntary deference, this article presents a new framework for the relationship b

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International Affairs@iajournal.bsky.social · last yr.

Our May issue is OUT NOW! ➡️ Special section on boundary work & the (un)making of global cooperation 🏳️‍🌈 7 articles on LGBTQ+ rights, the conversative global order and more 📊 3 policy papers on peace in Yemen, the WTO in crisis and more 📚25 book reviews Read now: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/3

25% tariff on Johnny in the basement 24% on mixing up the medicine 37% on the pavement 66% on thinking about the government 45% the man in the trench coat 31% on badge out, laid off 61% on her bad cough Look out kid It’s somethin’ you did God knows when But you’re doin’ it again

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · last yr.

25% tariff on a whiskey drink 37% tariff on a Vodka drink 85% tariff on a Lager drink 110% tariff on a cider drink 132% tariff on songs that remind you of the good times 138% tariff on songs that remind you of the better times

#Britain’s populist surge isn’t born of rage, but neglect. What #ReformUK reaps in the local elections is not rebellion, but inheritance—from towns where policy forgot to tread and hope was for long left to rot. doi.org/10.1093/cjre... doi.org/10.1080/0013...

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

Very informative chart from Washington Post

DREZNER: The people leading this are unserious, unknowing dotards. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/there-are-...

There Are No Adults in the Room

A brief note on the inherent media problem with covering galactically stupid policies.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

TAPPER: You're imposing a 10% on the Heard and MccDonald islands. They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs on islands entirely populated by penguins? ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.

i first called this "a public choice theory of recent developments in international trade" but I am weak so went for the clickbait

#19 Trump's Tariffs Make a Bit More Sense if You Think Like a Mafia Boss

A Public Choice interpretation. Well, sort of.

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Your tariff is the number of times you have walked into a room and instantly forgotten why you went there multiplied by the love for your workplace and divided by the weight of Capital Volume 3.

Great thread: excellent sketch of the potential explanations for why business and markets have so far proved relatively sanguine regarding Trump II breach with economic orthodoxy and indeed most heterodoxy.

Erin Lockwood@erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · last yr.

Large swaths of Trump's agenda are bad for capital, yet despite strong incentives to collectively mobilize AND significant power to exert their will, we have seen very little resistance from big business interests. Why? Below, five non-mutually exclusive possibilities that have occurred to me:

Trump's attacks on Canada and the EU are drastically shifting public opinion both in the US and abroad. Per Economist + YouGov www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Heads up IR friends: you have five days left to submit your abstract to NUPI'a inaugural theory conference! 250-500€ travel reimbursements, plus (most) food will be provided. www.nupi.no/en/events/20...

Call for Abstracts: 2025 NUPI Theory Conference | NUPI

Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics: Social Construction in Turbulent Times

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Heads up IR friends: you have five days left to submit your abstract to NUPI'a inaugural theory conference! 250-500€ travel reimbursements, plus (most) food will be provided. www.nupi.no/en/events/20...

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Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics: Social Construction in Turbulent Times

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"The analytics-industrial complex has effectively achieved a form of regulatory capture over global higher education." ihe.bc.edu/pub/j49thy96...

The New Analytics-Industrial Complex in Higher Education: Data, Governance, and Power

Private data firms are quietly seizing control of global higher education, creating a power shift more profound than universities realize.

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