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.

Some things to consider 🧵⬇️ 1) Both the US and the EU not only ignored Russia for years but coddled its oligarchs, laundered their money, and downplayed Putin’s deadly interferences. 2) The war in Ukraine, which started in 2014, was only acknowledged after the Russian full scale invasion in 2022.

what a gem 👏👏👏

In total market cap, the Nvidia selloff today is a little bit bigger than if the entire listed market of Mexico went to zero.

At @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC in Bologna, @dorobohle.bsky.social @thunen.bsky.social and I are chairing a section on Europe as a periphery in the global economy. The call for abstracts is now open - eisa-net.org/abstract-sub... We welcome proposals on Euro dependency in labor, finance, resources.

Ross Douthat interview with Marc Andreessen is a gold mine for IPE scholars. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...

Our final plenary roundtable has kicked off, focusing on 'The Rise of Far Right Around the World' We have some excellent speakers inc. @hozic.bsky.social, @chenchenzh.bsky.social, Karin Narita, Michael C. Williams, and Nitasha Kaul #VirtualBISA2025 @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Chinatown and Mike Davis’ live on. Los Angeles, water, speculative capitalism.

Good news for IPE in Italy: @ripejournal.bsky.social is now recognized as "fascia A" (top tier) scientific journal in the field of economic sociology in the list of journals used by the Italian Agency for the Evaluation of Research Quality(ANVUR). 🙏 to @aritassinari.bsky.social for the initiative!

It is surprising that @isanet.bsky.social does not publicize the results of its elections for key officers on this platform (apologies if I missed it!). Congratulations to the President-elect @audieklotz.bsky.social and all new members of the Governing Council!

As we enter the New Year, RIPE editors have some good news to report!!! Our editors are: @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social @hozic.bsky.social Alison Johnston @skostem.bsky.social @manuelamoschella.bsky.social @stefanoponte.bsky.social @kevinyoung.bsky.social and Hongying Wang doi.org/10.1080/0969...

We are preoccupied with parallels to Weimar when studying contemporary politics. Perhaps we should be studying the French Third Republic instead. academic.oup.com/book/8548/ch...

This year @ripejournal.bsky.social passed an important milestone: we have received more than 600 submissions even before the year’s end. We thank all the journal’s editors, authors and reviewers who have helped us maintain the journal’s reputation as the premier outlet for heterodox IPE.