For the New Statesman, I wrote about this thing we call capitalism. By way of Borges and Braudel, I review the mappings and musings in Sven Beckert’s and Branko Milanovic’s brilliant new books. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

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I wrote a short piece on capitalism and the states-system for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bet...

What transforms our societies more? predatory inter-state orgies of violence or capitalism red in tooth and claw? Holders of the means of production or holders of the means of destruction ? Fantastic essay on a critical debate esp in our current age : www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bet...

I wrote a short piece on capitalism and the states-system for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bet...

New book, coming soon! Duncan Bell & Douglas Mao, Utopia (Oxford UP, 2026) It's a short interdisciplinary volume in the recently launched OUP Literature and Politics series. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Now is the moment for a multilateral defence bank on.ft.com/44pLMAa

China has Made in China 2025, an elaborate industrial policy, designed by an army of competitive bureaucrats and a financial system subordinated to them. The US at this point has a guy with instinct, now afraid of the bond market

We are pleased to announce that @qbruneau.bsky.social 's STATES AND THE MASTERS OF CAPITAL is the Winner of the 2025 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations from the @hist-isanet.bsky.social‬ section of the International Studies Association. buff.ly/A3KP6vj

IR Book of the Week! "Ethnos of the Earth" by Jaakko Heiskanen. As empires collapsed and nation-states emerged during the 20th Century, "ethnicity" gained traction as a means to talk of the "stateless" without recognizing self-determination

Delighted that my first book was awarded the 2025 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations! Many thanks to the prize committee and to my friends and colleagues in the Historical IR section at ISA!

👏Congratulations to @politicsoxford.bsky.social's Edward Keene - jointly awarded the Joseph Fletcher Prize from @isanet.bsky.social for The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations!: ow.ly/jVi050UK4b8

My deepest thanks to the anonymous reviewers & the people who contributed to this work, including @qbruneau.bsky.social, Julia Costa López, John de Bhal, Mathieu Delaveau, @karimeltaki.bsky.social, Clémence Fourton, Johanna Gautier, Sonia Gavory, Kaoutar Ghilani, Ross J. Gildea, Eric Haney,... (7/8)

A Starter Pack for History/IR folks - just to make this space more useful more quickly. It’s super improvised & I’m sure I forgot to include many, so please lmk! 👇 go.bsky.app/CUyrrn3

Tomorrow is the first session of the New School and @lpeproject.bsky.social Night School. @akapczynski.bsky.social and @corinneblalock.bsky.social on how law structures socio-economic power, and how (or if) it could be used to challenge the same. 6 - 8 PM ET. Please register at the link below.