✈️ On my way to NYC for the @columbiasipa.bsky.social New Thinking on Industrial Policy conference — excited to present my work on Europe’s battery industrial rollout alongside this thrilling lineup of cutting-edge research! 📄 Papers & livestream👇 cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/content/new-...

So excited to present my work on high-road & low-road strategies in Europe's battery industrial rollout at Uni Vienna, organized by the wonderful @vvukov.bsky.social & @dorobohle.bsky.social Next Wednesday @16.45, come say hi if you're around! 🔋🚗 politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/en/details/n...

The car crisis tops today’s EU summit but leaders keep staring at the wrong problem The issue isn’t the 2035 engine ban - it’s demand falling off a cliff today With @sandertordoir.bsky.social and @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social, we show why flipping regs won’t help - and what the EU can do instead.

@lucien-mathieu.bsky.social: "Part 2️⃣ - Analysis of the leaked car industry paper: carmakers’ demands would let EV sales stagnate for the rest of the decade❗ T&E analysed and leaked a paper by the European car industry lobby ACEA and found a Christmas list of loopholes (more than 10!)."

Going through some history of climate politics notes from last week, I realize we dont appreciate enough the climate mobilization of mid2010s and subsequent electoral green wave of late 2010s. That moment was never really meant to be in the cards and we need to better study how we got there 🪡 1/n

Super stoked about Krasznahorkai's Nobel Prize. A beautiful interview with him from a couple years ago: www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/a...

“Letters; then from letters, words; then from these words, some short sentences; then more sentences that are longer, and in the main very long sentences, for the duration of 35 years. Beauty in language. Fun in hell.” 👏 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

What struck me immediately in German academia was the near absence of scholars from the former GDR (something I’m attuned to, as an Eastern European). The transition shock feels under-researched, with many stories untold. On this Day of German Unity, let's also remember the work that lies ahead.

“This morning, Germany is one nation again.” This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.

"Youth Protest in Serbia: And some thoughts for America." Serbia is a country without the rule of law, and its young people have been taking risks for the better part of a year in the hopes of creating a future where they can live normally in their own country. snyder.substack.com/p/youth-prot...

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

What an inspiring & empowering four days! It was such an honor to meet & exchange with this amazing group of women.

‼️ Read an adapted excerpt from EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism in @nybooks.com ‼️ Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

Applications for our visiting researchers program are now open! It’s a great opportunity, especially also for ECRs, to spend some time working on your research projects in-depth, with great and welcoming atmosphere and tiny Kölsch beers. Lmk if you have questions & pls share widely!

If true, we might as well bury the concept of rule of law conditionality. The EU cannot keep letting itself be blackmailed by Orbán into unfreezing funds withheld over rule of law violations in exchange for lifting his veto, unless it truly wants to lose all credibility as a guardian of EU values

⏳Beyond thrilled to co-launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy next week — with this *incredible* lineup of female talent 🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social

Why, oh WHY, does "frugal" Germany have so little regard for physical capital?

CITYPERC is organising a workshop on the Economic Project of the Far Right on October 6 at City, University of London. To join us in person or via Teams sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cityperc-w...

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

"Democratic resistance is a long battle that must be fought through many stages and in many arenas. There are no “silver bullets.” Success may at times have to be measured in terms of delays or limits imposed on backsliding ..." www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

Really enjoyed reading this article. This was a particularly useful insight.

Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️ It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades... It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350... Short 🧵 ...

New Paper out in Development & Change (open access): "Opportunities for Latecomer Technological Catch-up in the Era of Renewables Capitalism" with @lindsaywhitfield.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @devandchg.bsky.social

A few quick impressions from @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu's State of the Union address: ec.europa.eu/commission/p... /

Brad Setser: "Big July for China's auto exports: just over 750,000 vehicles, or an annual pace of (gulp), 9m vehicles -- which works out to around 8m passenger cars Forecasts that China's auto export boom would end in 2025 were premature ..." nitter.net/Brad_Setser/...

Anything in the middle?

Did a pod with the Drilled folks on carbon dominance as what unites US domestic and foreign policy: drilled.media/news/anti-re...

Point taken, but it's important that this was a battery factory (🌮, GOP) and that the Korean EVs are much better than the German ones, like for like.

German carmaker when Korean carmaker gets raided by secret police: “Not concerned at all. Actually hell yes! Gotta follow the rules!!“ on.ft.com/4gzdDlT

I'm hiring two Post-Doctoral Fellows in International Political Economy/Economic Sociology as part of the ADD project funded by the Velux Foundation. The posts are linked to an AI Sustainability package led by Christina Lioma at KU and me at CBS, drawing insights from comp sci & political economy.

refreshing read by @martinsandbu.ft.com calling out EU leaders in their bullshit on.ft.com/4fS6IDC

Check out a new piece by @mkblyth.bsky.social and me: 'Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization'. The Strategy? BLOCK Chinese green tech, PUSH US fossil fuels. @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/RE8I5Ix

China’s dramatic surge of investment into the “new three”—EVs, batteries, and solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5 million barrels a day by 2030. Here are the Chinese EVs "going out". BYD has already become a household name. What does this look like in 10 years? www.ft.com/content/f867...

Solar is EU's biggest power source for first time Solar booms that no one saw coming --Netherlands and Hungary --- are now over 40% solar, higher than Spain! Installation boomed once policy became supportive few years ago @palmapolyak.bsky.social @janfichtner.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/0894...

My book is out today! Read my stuff! academic.oup.com/book/60584?l... … The book looks at the long-run evolution of policy around monopoly and competition in the US and France over the 20th century, using extensive archival research to track the main policy actors who changed it at key moments.

The White House wants the jobs and inflation guy they pick to assert that the USA is BOOMING, and the interest rates guy they pick to make the case to cut rates hard, and they need a third guy to explain that these two guys can't both be right on.ft.com/4mH6lyf

18/Tariffs are -paid largely by Americans -not reindustrializing america but deindustrializing -not creating jobs but losing jobs - not helping small business but hurting importers But tariffs *are* -concentrating power in trumps hands and in his chosen firms wapo.st/4my4bAL

btw if anyone’s looking for beachreads, I enjoyed these a LOT 📚🤓

11/ I suspect Trump and millions of americans think this way bsky.app/profile/atru...

"First, please please please let’s move on from the Harry Potter references." Kevin Munger is the best. Period. His response to the Economist article is great: kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-guess-th...

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

Great discussion here. The lede is buried halfway through:

1/ Reporting from WSJ provides insight into how recent trade agreements were negotiated and what remains unresolved. The pattern: accelerated timelines have left significant technical details for later negotiation, creating uncertainty for businesses. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

He was murdered by Israeli forces, during one of their regular attacks on starving civilians waiting for humanitarian aid. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... Refusing to call it what it is does not make it any less true.

We're now inviting proposals for the New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference, November 6–7, 2025, at Columbia University! It is a great opportunity to present and discuss the latest research on industrial policy across the social sciences.

Which will be finished first?

The Commission just approved a €11bn French state aid scheme to support offshore wind. Competitive bidding, direct price support via two-way CfDs, and resilience criteria to curb reliance on Chinese tech. This is the way. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Is the climate strategy behind the IRA dead after the GOP's massive cuts to its clean energy subsidies? In my new piece for @foreignaffairs.com, I argue: No! www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

These two are some of the very rare good takes I've seen so far.