The AUKUS review poses a fundamental challenge to the U.S.-Australia relationship, and Australian foreign policy generally. Three books consider the future of the alliance itself.

Great to publish this @foreignpolicy.com review essay on the future of Australian foreign policy

Australia is far too small to shape the regional balance of power via military means, and its defence spending will remain a rounding error in comparison to the US and China This is the inconvenient truth ignored by many pro-AUKUS commentators www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

“Australia is particularly well placed to shape the medium- and long-term economic determinants of the regional distribution of power,” writes Connor O’Brien in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/australia-should-stop-pretending-be-military-hegemon

As the debate about Australian defence commitments and AUKUS heats up, it’s worth questioning what all this spending is meant to be for To boost regional ties, Australia should instead be prioritising decisive multilateral action on trade, sovereign debt, and climate finance

"After first emerging in the interwar years, offshore tax havens proliferated during the era of decolonization. Postcolonial self-determination prompted the flight of imperial capital to offshore jurisdictions, many of which were current or former British dependent territories."

Thanks @phenomenalworld.bsky.social for publishing my essay ‘Offshoring the Planet’

"Debt-for-nature swaps and carbon credit trading represent the expansion of the offshore phenomenon as a logic of global South statecraft." NEW, Connor O'Brien on jurisdictional control over biodiversity and climate finance

In my @phenomenalworld.bsky.social essay ‘Offshoring the Planet’, I explore how the offshore world is reshaping the global green transition (a 🧵1/7) t.co/8j7i8iXAIk

In my @phenomenalworld.bsky.social essay ‘Offshoring the Planet’, I explore how the offshore world is reshaping the global green transition (a 🧵1/7) t.co/8j7i8iXAIk

Thanks @phenomenalworld.bsky.social for publishing my essay ‘Offshoring the Planet’

🚨CRIA is soliciting special issue proposals that contribute to scholarly debate and which examine pertinent and topical theoretical, empirical and methodological questions ⬇️ Deadline: 11 June

On 28 May, CRIA is running an ECR workshop on 'The Global Politics of the Green Transition'! Abstract submissions close on 7 April.

"Whatever the economy is, its reality does not exist independent of our ability to account for it." NEW: An adapted excerpt from The Real Economy by Jonathan Levy, out now from Princeton University Press.

CRIA is hosting a roundtable on 'Concept Formation and Historical IR' (SA30) to kickoff our presence at the 2025 Chicago International Studies Association conference @isanet.bsky.social. Come along to The Barbershop (Blackstone Hotel) from 8:15am for a great discussion!

Excited to be joining @alktaif.bsky.social as co-editor of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs @cambridgecria.bsky.social CRIA welcomes submissions on international affairs topics from across the social sciences!

My new essay with @akentikelenis.bsky.social on green technology transfers in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tec...

Our Emeritus Professor Anne Phillips has a joint review of the recent books on (in)equality by Paul Sagar, Darrin M McMahon, @brankomilan.bsky.social sky.social and @laywilliams.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/S9TIH...

If the suspense was killing you, never fear! The episode with @rowenasquires.bsky.social is now available! We discuss the depiction of outer space colonialism in children's animation — from WALL-E, to Treasure Planet, to Disney's ex-Nazi rocket scientist open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...

Scary stuff by @laurielaybourn.bsky.social and @jamesgyke.bsky.social on the climate-inflation doom loop: As climate disruption kicks off, prices go up, central bankers hike and angry voters derail democratic systems, setting the stage for more disruption. theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...

Check out my latest with @beaubaumann.bsky.social at @lpeblog.bsky.social: Legislative institutions and procedures will either work for or against the broader progressive agenda. It's time for LPE scholars to give more attention to fixing Congress. lpeproject.org/blog/what-do...

This is an absolutely insane story - a must read!

I don't think climate policy folks have really wrestled w. how to deal with the IMMENSE concentration of wealth in the global economy. It creates a vicious feedback among "liberal" democracies. Gov’ts are beholden to firms that "support" their economies – in an increasingly volatile fashion. 1/2

Excited to share my new paper “Governing on par with states” published #openaccess in RIS @risjnl.bsky.social. I examine how private actors have shifted from entities to be regulated to being viewed as necessary part of solutions to global problems. 1/5 ⬇️ doi.org/10.1017/S026...

Prospects for #climatefinance at #COP29 do not look good. Deadlock can provide an opportunity for issue linkage. It’s time to get creative and think outside the #UNFCCC box. Developing countries have options. They should swing for the fences. 🧵

Every time I see StanChart in this space I want to remind people of what the CEO said about carbon markets in 2021 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...