#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @iojournal.bsky.social - Transboundary Air Pollution and Hazy Accountability: Evidence from South Korea - https://cup.org/4rT0tnr - Haillie Lee & @erikvoeten.bsky.social#OpenAccess

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Erik Voeten's new Annual Review piece tackles a key problem: how do we actually measure which countries align with whom geopolitically? The traditional UN voting approach misses so much - trade flows, security partnerships, diplomatic coordination. We need better tools for today's multipolar world.

behind a paywall for me, but there is an open version here:

This is a good example of the argument @profmichaelross.bsky.social and I made in Foreign Affairs last year about how the US becoming the world's largest oil and gas producer facilitates the aggressive behavior of the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/c...

Conceptualizing and Measuring Geopolitical Alignments - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The Guardian has a striking map suggesting Trump has pushed the world, especially Europe, toward China. It’s visually compelling. But misleading. The world isn’t moving away from the U.S. The U.S. is moving away from the world. as I show on @goodauth.bsky.social. goodauthority.org/news/the-wor...

Today the @nytimes.com @patcohen.bsky.social flagged “neoroyalism,” a term coined by abenewman.bsky.social & Stacie Goddard. 

 On a recent Good Authority podcast, Goddard and @erikvoeten.bsky.social unpacked what this means for global order: goodauthority.org/news/the-new...

Check out the @goodauth.bsky.social podcast and the @iojournal.bsky.social article (short, open access) that forms the basis of the conversation refers to.

New @goodauth.bsky.social podcast with @fgenovese.bsky.social and @jeffcolgan.bsky.social on how the world moves on with climate motigation in the new Trump era goodauthority.org/news/can-cli...

📣📣📣Announcing...Chalkboard Politics @chalkboardpolitics.bsky.social, a podcast by students, for students (and their teachers). Written, edited, and mixed by the students at @siwpscolumbia.bsky.social and distributed by @goodauth.bsky.social. 1/ www.podbean.com/media/share/...

Transactional foreign policy par excellence: pay $1 billion and get a permanent seat on the Peace Board. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

And this article by @soyounglee.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social "The presence of capitalintensive resources-such as oil or minerals-raises concerns about how the benefits of acquiring the territory would be distributed within the nation." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Apropos current events, I want to tout this paper by @soyounglee.bsky.social showing that discussion of economic benefits can reduce public support for military action. People are skeptical when they think specific groups (e.g., oil companies) will benefit. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Six months ago @profmichaelross.bsky.social and I wrote in Foreign Affairs that the US is increasingly behaving like a petrostate. Seems relevant today

Who will win the AI race? 🎧 In our latest podcast, Georgetown’s @erikvoeten.bsky.social and George Washington’s @jeffreyding.bsky.social discuss how artificial intelligence may reshape global power. Listen here: goodauthority.org/news/who-wil...

I had a fascinating conversation with @jeffreyding.bsky.social l about the future of AI and great power competition based on his award winning book for the @goodauth.bsky.social podcast goodauthority.org/news/who-wil...

New paper with @jonasheering.bsky.social on public opposition to data center construction. We find that the nationality of the operator is even more important than very substantial increases in electricity costs.

On November 19th, Professor @jeffreyding.bsky.social from The George Washington University received the prestigious Lepgold Book Prize at the Mortara Center. This award recognizes the best book in international relations published in 2024. Photo credit: @georgetown-sfs.bsky.social

Europeans worry that accommodating Putin repeats past errors. My latest on @goodauth.bsky.social with findings from a new article "Voting with Putin" with Jana Lipps in @cpsjournal.bsky.social where we document mainstream and cultural conservative support for Putin goodauthority.org/news/why-eur...

We are on the brink of a once in a generation transformation in world politics. @erikvoeten.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social and I talk neo-royalism as one future. Give a list: goodauthority.org/news/the-new... Check out the article it is based on here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The new neo-royalist world order. Stacie Goddard and @abenewman.bsky.social explain how cliques are ruling the world. A new @goodauth.bsky.social podcast interview with yours truly based on the new @iojournal.bsky.social open access article that came out today! goodauthority.org/news/the-new...

@erikvoeten.bsky.social has built his career on one goal: make ideas flow more freely. In this week’s Etched in Marble, we talked about writing, editing, & how to carry arguments beyond academia without losing their complexity. 🪶 New post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-... 🧵

🧵New piece from me @goodauth.bsky.social on risks of striking Venezuela, focused on the added risk from Trump team of loyalists. Hint: it has to do with centralized role of Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, and the incompetence of advisers like SecDef Hegseth. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m...

1/When @himself.bsky.social and I wrote about the future of US economic coercion we hoped that the tools could be used for global collective goods like climate. Now US “evaluating sanctions on officials sponsoring activist-driven climate policies”’ on.ft.com/4qJF3Ko

As a Dutch friend, I agree with this and I don't think it means that votes will be "lost." It is up to the other parties to figure out how to attract those voters who really care about animal rights, pensions, Christianity and so on.

The Dutch election is more of a reshuffling than a major realignment of the electorate but fragmentation of the far right will still likely bring a centrist government coalition. My quick takeaways @goodauth.bsky.social goodauthority.org/news/three-t...

Three quick takeaways from the Dutch elections: @goodauth.bsky.social goodauthority.org/news/three-t...

Read Anjali Dayal on the UN and also listen to her podcast To Save Us from Hell open.spotify.com/show/2WBQHl2...

New out in @apsrjournal.bsky.social. We show how the AfD in Germant was able to use opposition to the green transition to attract voters in highly polluting occupations and communities that rely on those occupations.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

New UN ideal point estimates available. These are for the first time based on years rather than UNGA sessions. For more, see here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

This is fantastic. Very excited by this development in European Political Science. Please come and join us. Get involved. Sign up to the listserv. Etc

🚨Global public action (climate!) is most effective when countries do it together yet we're in a period of IO backlash rooted in left-behind places Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same? @patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵 osf.io/rtymv

I have a new short piece in Foreign Affairs with @profmichaelross.bsky.social arguing that "the United States’ emergence as the world’s leading oil and gas producer is a critical and often neglected element of today’s global disorder." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

(Finally) out in the Journal of Politics: Do Domestic Climate Rulings Make Climate Commitments More Credible? Evidence from Stock Market Returns." A quick thread on paper and process www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Trump’s policies are terrible for even the people who support him. Episode 34276 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Important and yet another illustration of both how pointless and harmful these tariffs are.

Whenever the news comes that people are turning on Trump there's some guy who will come out of the woodwork and say "Well, his base wont care", but it's important to remember that it took way more than Trump's base to get him elected and all those people are souring on him.

Another great data visualization by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com (the article says that the non-MAGA group is larger but not by how much, which would be useful to know). Trump chaos is alienating Republicans www.ft.com/content/26d1...

On Fox News, the tariffs are already having positive effects. No mention of a stock market crash.

Maybe Trump is a closet degrowth leftist? His entire economic plan implies dramatic reductions in consumption. #DegrowthDonnie

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

Puzzled by where Trump's numbers on tariffs charged on US exports come from? Do they seem oddly high? Especially given all this talk about how trade is too liberalized? What are actual tariffs charged on US exports? 1/ @econsky

The estimator will be fine. But if the US will keep voting this way, we will see a pretty rare radical switching in sides, like Cuba after Castro and Iran after the Islamic revolution....... Or we could see a new second dimension.

Support for Ukraine at the UNGA, 93-18, 65 abstentions; the US swinging to vote with Russia, which I’d argue is the most dramatic shift in US policy at the UN since its founding 80 years ago

This may be the type of feedback the Administration would actually listen to. European stocks outpace Wall Street since Donald Trump took office www.ft.com/content/3436...

If you read my book, you’d know I’m largely critical of HIV/AIDS interventions in Africa. But PEPFAR literally keeps millions of people alive. That’s just the truth, easily visible in the data. goodauthority.org/news/pepfar-...

DOGE is a grenade in the heart of US national security, chapter 291: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social