In this moment of crisis for America, I am relieved to receive this reassuring message from Senator Fetterman

I interviewed Mathias Larsen on key takeaways of our Hopkins report @phenomenalworld.bsky.social Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...

hey #polisci, if you're at #APSA2025, set the alarm, grab coffee & come hear about my new book Existential Politics w/ @profkharrison.bsky.social @thomasnhale.bsky.social ale.bsky.social @bentleyallan.bsky.social allan.bsky.social @agazmararian.bsky.social rarian.bsky.social & Michael Ross. Deets 👇

Don't worry everyone, AI will fix it, just like climate change

I do think you’ve gotta hand it to Ezra Klein for this one, which we need more of, much more, from his peers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

I wonder which departments will pause the tenure clock for anti-fascist mobilization

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

Robert Armstrong (who coined Trump Always Chickens Out thesis) says TACO is falsified. Its now WACO — World Always Chickens Out. NEW: @thepolycrisis.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social take: EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything? buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!! An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today. 🧵 Brief thread 1/4

"Despite closures being over twice as likely to occur in the Republican-controlled states that did not expand Medicaid, closures were associated with reduced support for federal Democrats and the Affordable Care Act following local closures." YIKES link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Get to spending, folks

This is still so crazy to me:

Asset owners have enormous leverage to get their asset managers to implement effective strategies to reduce systemic climate risk. If persuasion doesn't work, replace them, as Sierra Club Foundation has done with Blackrock/ Aperio. www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

After peer reviewing some public opinion research on international affairs that use US samples, I have come to the conclusion that scholars should not be allowed to make "domestic audience" arguments until they spend at least one ethnographic afternoon at a Walmart or a Target

One potentially productive takeaway from this madness: Industrial policies like the IRA were critiqued because they lacked the tools to discipline capital. The exchange shows that derisking strategic sectors nevertheless creates a stick when the gov. can credibly threaten to end the carrots.

What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors? I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓 Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New Publication 🚨 in New Political Economy with the one and [email protected]. We propose the term 'Green Financial Planning' to tie together many of the terms in political economy at the moment, and demonstrate that green finance is much more than a few loans/bonds with green names

New (open access!) paper out now with Eric Helleiner and Hongying Wang in New Political Economy: "A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift" 1/ A brief thread 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/1356...

If EVs were exempt from speeding tickets on fuel efficiency grounds the US would decarbonize personal transportation overnight

Really nice discussion of how US monetary policy affects decarbonization in emerging economies, from @danieldrisc.com www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New #FirstView from samsrowan.bsky.social Countries raise their climate ambition when their peers in IOs do. Strong Paris climate targets by partners led governments to set stronger Glasgow pledges. Conditional cooperation drives the ratchet mechanism. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sadly both the theories behind IRA have mostly failed 1. Deliverism: deliver jobs and investments to consolidate democratic voters -> win 2024 election 2. Poltiical Lock-In: deliver jobs and investments to red states & districts so that a IRA caucus inside the GOP would protect the clean economy

Are Europeans generally a no on ISA 2026 in Ohio? Anyone hearing anything?

The animation you didn’t know you needed is finally here! 🎈 Now you can explain to students how a regime shift occurs in system behavior. This picture is worth >1k words plus a lot of numbers. From @knmi.nl

I doubt awareness is the limiting factor to climate action here. Carney, like Trudeau, will manage an economy where O+G plays an important role as an export, with significant structural power. Creating an off-ramp for Alberta will require more than nudging the private sector as Carney has done

Who needs monetary dominance when you can just elect central bankers

Can someone remind me who it was that claimed realists were prisoners of their own frameworks?

Looking forward to participating and presenting our paper with @christianelliott.bsky.social on nature risk scenarios!

Does anyone still call IR theory that analyzes domestic-international linkages "liberal"

I rarely call Congressional offices, but this is different — so I just contacted Rep. Foushee, Sen. Tillis & Budd. If you grasp the stakes of our present Constitutional crisis, you have a responsibility to speak up & urge your reps to make it a top priority.

Carney just passed the most important test in Canadian politics www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZmh...

Schrödinger's De-Dollarization?

The spike in Treasury yields is highly unusual & concerning. I don't want to draw too strong a conclusion from a single snapshot in time, but the list of potential disruptions to the status quo where USD/Treasuries = world's 'safe asset' is long & getting longer. Here's a non-exhaustive list. 🧵1/9

Come join us (again!) @uompol.bsky.social. We have a new permanent lectureship (asst prof) in Environmental Politics to join the already excellent group here, including @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social, Carl Death, and Paul Tobin. @manchestersci.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

a few years in the making: our special issue on the IPE of Green Finance is complete! 🧵on its content: 1. Sarah Sharma and I wrote a (long) editorial introducing the idea of a green finance ecosystem and calling for a 'deep engagement' of IPE w. gr. finance 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is a very important story. It is also important to understand that this is how ICE operates. They disappear people. Family members and lawyers often cannot get information from ICE about where inmates are located and they cannot contact them. It has been this way for a long time.

No, I didn't predict BlackRock reinventing itself as advance guard of Trumpist territorial expansionism. But the key point in 'Exit, control, and politics' has aged awfully well: 'Too big to not internalize external effects' is superseded by 'too big to not internalize political forces/conflicts.'

We have another phenomenal panel on green finance tomorrow morning at #ISA2025! We're bringing the energy with papers on solar investment, state-owned investment banks, the Bridgetown Initiative, sovereign green bonds, and more! 8:15 am in the Mobley Room!

For early birds at the @isanet.bsky.social Chicago, come tomorrow morning for our presentation on Biodiversity Scenarios and Climate’s (Un)Learned Lessons with @christianelliott.bsky.social Other great papers including from @krdgnydn.bsky.social

It's a fair bet that this is going to affect faculty lines at less affluent institutions

A psychotic "I'm going to force my neighbor to move in, after burning his house down, so I can win arguments with my wife" type vibe

Me, working on my little articles and book projects in February 2025:

I guess I don't need to write that paper on CSRD/SFDR spillovers

A weird casualty of the DoD shakeup - the National Defense Industrial Strategy Implementation Plan has been taken offline. The word "diversity" might have shown up in the workforce readiness section. www.businessdefense.gov/NDIS.html

Is anyone familiar with research process tracing the evolution and consolidation of the International Sustainability Standards Board?