The EIB Group Complaints Mechanism (EIB-CM) can and should do better‼️ We’ve been banging the drum for years, and the Corridor Vc case is just one of the reasons why. With the EIB-CM currently under review, we’re calling for urgent reform.

Functioning grievance mechanisms are key to protecting human rights and promoting climate justice in development projects! 🔎 Read our Corridor Vc case study here: bankwatch.org/publication/...

How can the EU’s Social Climate Fund better support vulnerable households in Estonia? A new model from the University of Tartu shows how renovation subsidies could be targeted more fairly by combining technical building data with socio-economic indicators. 🏗️ Read more: bankwatch.org/blog/can-the...

How has our understanding of the transition from communism evolved? Korbel Prof @epsteinprof.bsky.social joins @piroskadora.bsky.social on the @viennadialogues.bsky.social podcast to discuss why liberal ideas are in crisis and what researchers should do next.

Right now, the problem is that faculty are being asked to "experiment with AI!!!" on their own, piecemeal, and against the massive bulwark of their universities hyping the tech; requiring time spent in dedicated AI-free learning spaces is the sort of the thing that you can't accomplish individually.

What does a year of German rearmament get you? If you're China, almost decade of cash to change the world's electricity infrastructure. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-china-...

Were we too optimistic about the post-communist turn to liberal markets and democracy? In conversation with Vienna Dialogues, Professor Rachel Epstein (University of Denver) reflects on 35 years of transition - and what we may have misunderstood. Link to the episode: bit.ly/3MskEdA

This year I made two big changes to my graduate International Political Economy syllabus: 1) I leaned in to money and capital as organizing themes, and 2) I assigned (nearly) all books. Here's our reading list, ft. Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Cohen, @stefeich.bsky.social, Ngaire Woods, J.C. Sharman ...

I’ve seen a lot of breathless praise of Moltbook but I can’t imagine anything less interesting than a Reddit clone where all of the posts and comments are generated by chatbots. It’s impressive to have invented a social network that’s more off putting than Sora, TikTok for AI slop.

I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History Due by February 23rd munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...

What do you think of this? arstechnica.com/information-...

The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

Looking to crowdsource some ideas / comments. Thinking about why the US has not pursued a CBDC - aside from domestic political opposition - and the extent to which this reflects a structural logic of full spectrum global dollar dominance. 1/n 🧵

For your weekend listening pleasure. I did the Top Traders podcast. These folks ask the best questions. Got into loads of interesting stuff. Enjoy: www.toptradersunplugged.com/podcast/when...

if you think this is incomprehensible jargon (who;d blame you), I've written a few papers, and once dreamt of writing a repo book for the 300 people who'd care to read a deeply technical yet deeply political take on the world's most opaque form of money. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

still my heart - REPO IS VERY SYSTEMIC piece @alphaville.ft.com 1. We still have no granular data, a full 17 years since run on repo blew up Lehman into a global financial crisis. The OFR now has data on US repo, but European repo is also USD 12 trillion (roughly) www.ft.com/content/220d...

My co-author @mkeremcoban.bsky.social and I have written about how this unfolded in the case of Turkey--here is a link to our paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And authoritarian leaders can instrumentalize the banking sector in different ways, also see our study with @piroskadora.bsky.social and @mkeremcoban.bsky.social:

Korbel Prof @epsteinprof.bsky.social & @piroskadora.bsky.social find that European financial reform has spawned growing diversity in financial policies, with East Central Europe markets contributing significantly to EU fragmentation. What are the implications? Read more in @jcms-eu.bsky.social

Shit gets weirder every day...

Tim Gill has written some great stuff about tall buildings. Attitudes towards them are a lot more complex than people think.

For your last minute Christmas gift list. A list of damn good books, including one recommended by me: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/ps-c... See you all in the new year!

Yesterday, CEU's Budapest site served as the venue for the Hungarian launch of Angela Merkel's memoir Freedom. After the event, Julius Horvath (CEU's Executive Director for Budapest) had the honor of welcoming the former German Chancellor to CEU's historic campus. Thank you for the opoortunity! 👏

My IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions. careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

My IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions. careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

Thrilled to see the population-change decomposition method I developed now applied in the @EBRD Transition Report 2025–26, Brave New World.😃😃 EBRD report: www.ebrd.com/home/news-an... My publication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa…

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📢 New issue, including the Special Issue on "Wartime Europe: EU Integration, Reform and Enlargement" edited by @vanghel.bsky.social, a debate on EU & NATO enlargement after 2022 and JEPP news 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

🏦 Matthias Thiemann, Dan Mocanu & @piroskadora.bsky.social : The rise of the European Enlargement State: blended finance, development banks and the new modalities of EU accession 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What's the state of play around #AI sovereignty in Latin America? Natan Amado picks it apart in this RegulAite working paper. Spoiler alert: without push-back, AI dependency will only entrench LA's peripheral position in the global economy. www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/A...

Regine Paul, Vali Stan and I have analysed how deeply #AI is entangled in global politics and corporate profit-hunting. “The AI Matrix” is the result – and the digital book-version is open access: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (Link doesn't work? Try this one: www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/M...)

Fantastic opportunity for PhD students working in the fields of political economy and economic sociology to receive valuable feedback and connect to other researchers in their field. Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social Send them your abstracts!

And now..in our regular discussion of how climate change is really geopolitics...I give you @triofrancos.bsky.social and her fabby new book: player.captivate.fm/episode/16cc... In other words - The new Rhodes Center Podcast is up...

Hoo boy. Feral emeritus prof here (possibly an idiot). 1st, h/t @70sbachchan.bsky.social 2nd, possibly a long 🧵. Political economy used to be ”critical” (of capitalism) bc most folks in that space came out of Marx or american institutionalist like T. Veblen and J. Commons, less so F. Knight 1/n

“With increasing calls for the development of a war economy, especially in Europe, and broad acceptance that the global political economy is rapidly being primed for war, the book’s feminist political economy analysis and alternatives are vital and urgent.”

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-...

Just finished discussing this book with our pol. econ PhD students. We all liked it, some more other less, for its attention on consumption as institutionally defined, historical findings, and the general argument about the similarities of business strategies of US retailers digital or otherwise.

Really enjoyed this book! Raises a whole bunch of really vital questions about power and transition, and does so much to get us beyond a rote insistence on state action in climate politics.

But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. poets.org/poem/student...

“For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper” — Joseph Fasano Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth.

Feeling *extreme* FOMO to be missing this event happening at Columbia today and featuring a packed roster of GOATs including @veenadubal.bsky.social @jathansadowski.com @bcmerchant.bsky.social and others!! iserp.columbia.edu/events/new-l...

The young age profile fully offset population losses from negative migration in Central and Eastern Europe between 1990 and 2020. Population Council just featured my Population and Development Review paper in a short summary! #demography #migration #Poland popcouncil.org/insight/driver…

Driving myself slightly mental thinking about pension fund capital and spatial metaphors. It can’t be ‘unlocked’ or ‘deployed’ because that (wrongly) suggests it has a *location* - it is *here* and could/should be *there*. Pension capital is a store of value that is turned into claims in *time*

To survive in the bond market, libertarianism needs subsidies. My latest geoeconomic.substack.com/p/spare-a-st...

🚨New publication with Kristijan Kotarski: Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488

This afternoon!

When central banks were asked to "do smth" about climate, the Fed sat it out, the ECB experimented then retreated but the PBOC planned green and brown money at scale. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...

Obviously a self-serving recommendation, but I've found this chapter useful for structuring + historicizing discussions about sovereign debt in my IPE classes. Students often find sovereign debt intimidating, so breaking down how these contracts are written/enforced/restructured can be helpful.