I forgot how good it feels to be in the European time zone, be able to work in peace for hours, before the onslaught of North American emails and messaging.

EU solution to its problems: let Ukrainian men fight until we re-arm and have an all-out war with Russia.

some days it's hard to read a good book because it makes me want to write, i keep getting ideas & have to put it down. other times it's hard because everything else feels like a distraction & i hate putting it down. & sometimes it's that i wish i wrote it, so want to put it away, but can't, i can't

How Florida rules the world.

The venom with which the center-right attacks the left - one would think they are the fascists and we are back in the interwar period. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Delighted that the 1st issue of @phenomenalworld.bsky.social with phenomenal colleagues and friends is getting so much well-deserved praise. Kudos to the editors and to the authors!

"Empires typically do not collapse because of external aggression. They collapse because of some form of suicide. ..Trump is an extreme example of a cadre beginning to think about its own personal wealth at the expense of the big picture" Mad levels of insight packed in this by @thunen.bsky.social

So Spain will go the way of Slovenia, and the EU will do nothing. Ireland next?

A problem and an explanation, both on the same front page.

Oh, please, give us a break.

📢 #CEEISAConference2026 | Contesting Imperialism(s) 📍 Sarajevo | 🗓️ 17–19 June 2026 The academic program is now online! Browse panels, papers & rountables👇 🔗 ceeisa2026.com Program chairs: Aida Hozić & Dženeta Karabegović

I spent this Sunday morning reading the beautiful writings on @equatormag.bsky.social site and listening to their podcasts. Read, listen, support, share.

I will never get used to the vacuous synchronicity of American leisure alongside wars: the latest bridal fashion, old Kindles dying, best chocolate. Life goes on in wars, always. But this cover is not about life - it is about forgetting, denial, erasure and … consumption.

Excellent account of encounters between the Vatican/Pentagon emissaries Christophe Pierre/Eldridge Colby. The article concludes with Pierre’s words: “The world is wrong when it treats aggression like wisdom and domination as realism. Refusal of hate is not weakness. Love is stronger than death.”

And @profpaulpoast.bsky.social has spoken.

Unaffordable daycare is a problem lack of public health care/insurance is a problem Lack of paid parental leave is a problem Abortion bans that make difficult pregnancies into crimes is a problem Expensive housing is a problem Fewer teen pregnancies is NOT a problem

In that vein, Chile has been replacing its old Mercedes public transport buses with modern 100% electric BYD buses. It’s not like they were coerced to do it by China, it’s more like that the Germans live in a long-gone era and refuse to build modern vehicles. The BYD buses are excellent quality.

The image is smalish but the withdrawals are huge. Private capital holders continue to price the current political/economic moment with attempts at mass exit.

“Perhaps most strikingly of all, the data demonstrates that women were far more often engaged in paid employment than historians have tended to assume.”

Looking forward to Lisbon for @europeanisa.bsky.social, presenting the work that @allysonedwards1.bsky.social & I are doing on youth militarisation in #Russia and appearing on a roundtable about the new book War Economy edited by @hozic.bsky.social and Jacqui True www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

Europe may not rebound. Hit by COVID, the US push to de-couple from China, Biden’s IRA, the Ukraine war and the switch from Russian gas to the US/Gulf LPG, AI and platforms, Trump’s tariffs, loss of Chinese market, and now Hormuz: what’s left is a retirement zone. And it’s not even Florida ….

Apply!!!! I can think of a number of amazing IPE/CPE scholars 3-5 years from their PhDs who would be extremely well qualified for this position and could *diversify* Max Planck intellectually, geographically, and demographically.

Filipino defence minister Gilbert Teodoro today: “It is of vital importance to us that the strait of Hormuz be opened immediately and kept safe. Not only for the seafarers, but also for Philippine consumers. The poor Filipinos who need to pay astronomical prices for electricity, fuel, and power.”

This was/is a great book. And so misunderstood. History repeats on a loop.

The deadline for this year's CEEISA proposals - papers, panels, and roundtables - is April 10, 2026. The theme - Contesting Imperialism(s) - could not be more urgent, and Sarajevo and its history are an important vantage point from which to reconsider empires, their legacies, and their future!

Charles Tilley was correct: states are organized criminal institutions. They generate threats to extract resources; they disguise their racketeering as protection. Unlike mafias, however, states do not take care of the needy in their communities. They just throw them to the wolves.

Wow. And just like that, Europe is a rocket ship now.

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Another BANger from @cornelban.bsky.social On energy geoeconomics geoeconomic.substack.com/p/energy-res...

@profpaulpoast.bsky.social now says that we are in a world war. We are confronted with a global conflict led by governments that most of us do not support. Bodies as fodder for new and experimental weapons, techno-dystopia as a likely outcome. A reminder: nothing like war to find moral purpose.

Sometimes a film can move a mountain.

Always worth reading 👇

This is so lovely. 🤓 Thanks to the @hist-isanet.bsky.social for showcasing historical work and to the committee for recognising Erased with this prize. 🥂 Congratulations to Yan Long for their honourable mention.

1/ "Higher energy, fertilizer and transport costs – including freight rates, bunker fuel prices and insurance premiums – may increase food costs and intensify cost-of-living pressures, particularly for the most vulnerable." Excellent report by UNCTAD unctad.org/system/files...

What inflation? Food is for the poor. Let them eat cake.

The 47th POTUS may not know the difference between a war and a reality TV show. He seems to think he can just change the channel or switch it off and on as he pleases.

Contesting Imperialism(s) - Central and East European ISA conference in Sarajevo, BiH, June 17-19, 2026. Deadline for proposals - April 10, 2026. There will be a pre-conference workshop for young scholars. For info, please visit: ceeisa2026.com

Nothing to see here, just a German military mega-contractor with cartel appetite (and a big male energy CEO who loves to hunt) ditching civilian manufacture and monopolizing earth-to-space production and building its factories all over (mostly Eastern) Europe www.ft.com/content/a326...

The room was almost empty when BN delivered his defiant speech at the UN in September 2024. But this photo grabbed my attention. It should have been taken seriously. He has been working on the realization of “the blessing” persistently, by all means available, come hell or high water.

The Oracle has spoken: “You go through this and then in five years, you realise you put somebody in who was no better. So we’d like to see somebody in there that’s going to bring it back for the people.”

Presdent Trump as the reliable source of war information.

If I support wars + say appropriate things about dehumanized enemies + celebrate masculinity, can I get an island too?

Regime change is a bipartisan addiction. And … DJT has made peace with the Deep State. So all is well and back to normal in Washington DC.

Today, thanks to my academic colleagues, I was once again reminded of the world’s callous response to the Rwandan genocide, brilliantly captured in this PBS Frontline documentary.

How the Left was smeared and the UK citizens’ digital data and defense sold to Oracle and Palantir.

ECRs in IPE, who are applying to the Political Economy Beyond Boundaries (PEBB) section of the @europeanisa.bsky.social for the PEC in Lisbon, September 1-4, 2026, may also be considered for the two RIPE-sponsored panels. See the call below for details.

Tomorrow at 1:30 pm UK time, at Pembroke College, Oxford - “Italy as Bellwether” in the shifting European and transatlantic relations. The event is hybrid, offering both in-person and online attendance. To join online, contact Kate McKee, ISO events coordinator, at [email protected].

The latest Eurobarometer before Munich Sec Conference. French feel most threatened yet have low trust in the EU to protect them. Finns and Czechs less afraid than 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱. One must wonder: what/who is the threat?