RIPE had a banner year in 2025. Prior to this year, submissions to the journal were consistently increasing by about 2-10% per year. In 2025, submissions jumped by nearly 50%. RIPE received 910 manuscripts compared to 618 in 2024 and 552 in 2023, a significant deviation from our long-term trend.

Gramsci is everywhere.

Given Sir Keir Starmer’s role in the Global War on Terror and his decisions related to Guantanamo, the stance on ECHR is not surprising. What human rights anyway? Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Hollywood has been bleeding jobs for decades and has not made boundary-pushing movies since the 1970s.

Europe remembers Munich. The U.S. remembers Vietnam. No one remembers other, more recent, forever wars; peace agreements that rewarded aggressors or did not produce peace; millions of refugees shut out of the right to decent life; veterans committing suicides. What West, indeed?

What a thread on political economy/critical political economy/Keynes et al! Ferals of the world unite ✊😺

Scandalous Economics. “The smart need money; the rich want to seem smart; the staid seek adjacency to what Mr. Summers called ‘life among the lucrative and louche.’” All on the bodies of young women recruited at Mar-a-Lago and flown around Clintonworld on Epstein’s jet.

“Then there’s gender…” in this story of continuities and discontinuities of American political economy and competing visions of how to make it great again.

Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

What better gift for the festive season for your loved ones than a comprehensive feminist analysis of the global war economy? Edited by the fabulous @hozic.bsky.social and Jacqui True and with a chapter by yours truly - www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

Brilliant analysis of Europe’s descent to dependency by @cornelban.bsky.social - its new Wartburg moment - Europe risks turning into “an artifact of ambition fossilized by fear.”

Remember this next time Summers opines on lazy workers, tight labor market, interest rates, Open AI, allies in the Middle East, wokism, and an array of other topics that keep his hedge fund friends happy.

This is the kind of thing which makes me think better things are possible.

a must read from Rebecca Turkington and Saskia Brechenmacher on the dismantling of the bipartisan WPS architecture: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/13/t...

This was a brilliant event with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @stephensemler.bsky.social Podcast recording coming next week on @macrodosepod.bsky.social

echoing praise for @susglickman.bsky.social 's recent NYRB article on DoD, private equity, and silicon valley. pair with @hozic.bsky.social 's earlier piece on hollywood, the valley and DoD -> comprehensive picture. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/... www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

The developing world that could not afford green transition is doing it; the world that had all the money and alleged industrial policies for greening is back to fossil fuels and militarization.

Larry Ellison is funding Tony Blair’s Institute. No surprise Blair is President Trump’s choice for the Viceroy of Gaza.

With immense gratitude to @chris-clarke.bsky.social and @benclift.bsky.social for bringing to light this edited volume honouring the work and legacy of Timothy J. Sinclair. The contributions demonstrate that Tim’s research shaped understandings of finance and economic knowledge well beyond CRAs.

@edwardluce.bsky.social in FT is spot on. Combine his analysis with the revised job data from the BLS today and it becomes easier to understand why Bidenomics failed so spectacularly. European elites still wiggling in the grip of the Third Way should pay notice. The rest of us may be doomed.

Traveling authoritarianism.

“In 2024 alone, developing countries paid a staggering $921bn in interest, with African nations among the hardest hit. UNCTAD warns that rising global interest rates and a fundamentally unjust financial architecture are entrenching a cycle of dependency and underdevelopment.”

and see @jonathonpsine.bsky.social 's precise & illuminating (and lengthy, but a good thing) review of the book: www.cogitations.co/p/litigation...

After days of discussing European dependency at #EISA2025 with @dorobohle.bsky.social & @thunen.bsky.social, I laughed seeing this line: “Europeans have a sense of optimism only about the past, stuck in their mausoleum economy because they are too sniffy to embrace American or Chinese practices.”

Perhaps the Dutch learned something from Srebrenica?

Fascinating how men/economists write about demography and fertility as if children are all born in vitro, as if social reproduction was genderless, as if population changes are not reflective of social relations.

RIPE had 194695 downloads in Q2 2025, as opposed to 143240 in Q2 2024, an increase of 35.92%. Thanks to our authors, reviewers and readers!

Perhaps the text should be: “Thanks to the efforts of international organizations, Bosnia and Herzegovina remains a country deeply divided …”

RIPE Editor @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social reflects on the history of IPEG at @mybisa.bsky.social - which was often entwined with the growth and development of our journal.

"Around 55 percent of arms imports by European states between 2019–2023 came from the US, up from 35 percent between 2014–2018." NEW @dzurstrassen.bsky.social reviews the persistent obstacles of European defense policy, from the EU's founding to the SAFE program.

@ipegbisa.bsky.social takes on BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives 💵 ‘A landmark gathering for IPE scholars in Belfast’ - reflections with @juliacalvert.bsky.social & James Scott 🎉 read here now 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @dasilvapp.bsky.social

U.K. bond markets react to Rachel Reeves’ tears. This must be a new low for gender discrimination under capitalism.

This country, the world … so need this kind of solidarities and cross-endorsements.

When the market acts as a political savior, we are really in some deeply troubled waters.

We are so far away from the times when women participation in peace agreements was deemed to be important and desirable.

The key takeaway from the long article in the NYT, also highlighted in military publications: Ukraine “was also a grand experiment in war fighting, one that would not only help the Ukrainians but reward the Americans with lessons for any future war.” One suspects, Gaza too is just a laboratory.

A thoughtful thread by Cas Mudde re boycotting of the U.S. by academics from elsewhere. My short answer would be: protect knowledge flows, consider who is really being harmed by the boycott and, above all, think of your own safety when crossing borders. Your degrees will not protect you.

Out-trumping Trump in global incarceration trends.

Authoritarianism is very hard to defeat. And it is virtually impossible if the opposition is focused on defense of its own privileges, thus accommodating those who are in power.

Revolution will definitely not be tweeted. www.politico.eu/article/musk...

Drowning in the ocean of terrifying news, we belatedly celebrate @ripejournal.bsky.social best article and best reviewer awards for 2024. The awards were announced at IPE reception (chaired by Anja Jetschke, below) at @isanet.bsky.social conference in Chicago last week (March 2-5, 2025). 1/4

Chapeau to @zey.bsky.social - we are at the point where we are because our expert elites somehow thought that science and knowledge would be best protected from conspiracies and populist vengeance by hiding and manipulating that same science and knowledge.

Oh, that research money … definitely more important than students. (File under: Some Day We Will All Be Ashamed)

I do hope everyone has read Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem very carefully and therefore understands the relationship between stripping people of citizenship, statelessness and detention/disappearance.

No matter who governs the United States, it is the Black Rock world. Read and follow @danielagabor.bsky.social and you will understand why.

Another RIPE ISA pre-conference workshop for early career researchers us now in the books. Always such a pleasure to see the work that bright young scholars are doing in IPE. Looking forward to seeing these big and important ideas take shape.

So many men going ballistic on every platform, in every political direction. So much magical thinking. And so many *other* lives, problems, voices excluded and disregarded.

Someone’s happy.

This, my European friends, is pathetic.