Xi sets out conservative climate goal for China over next decade on.ft.com/4mtVEyl

Everyone’s looking forward to this! Great way to kick off the new academic year!

We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

Simple as that

Hey book lovers! UNC Press just redesigned their website and are offering 50% off ALL books to celebrate! This is the biggest sale I've ever seen them do (even better than my author discount, TBH), and I'm definitely going to stock up. This is your chance to get my new book for only $15!

In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri... www.ft.com/content/e517...

"The better way to understand Anchorage is not as the start of something new, but as the culmination of a longer process. As the U.S. dismantles its foreign-policy tools, as this administration fires the people who know how to use them, our ability to act with any agility will diminish"

Happy to share that my book, Ambition and Adjustment: The Making and Unmaking of Postcolonial Development in Africa, will be published by the University of Chicago Press next year! More soon about this project that I am very proud of and have been working on for a very long time.

Water connects us all through atmospheric moisture that travels across continents. Deforestation in the Amazon reduces rainfall as far as the Congo Basin. We need a new lens that treats the hydrological cycle as a global common good requiring collective action. 1/2

US is becoming poorer & weaker as it dismantles the very system it once built. Now, marooned on a fossil-drenched continent, the question is whether it will watch in sullen silence as others climb toward the solar uplands, or have the power to crush the spring www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...

A scary look into the future of the (all male) organic intellectuals of Silicon Valley

7 years ago I wrote that, "the most lasting long-term consequence of the Trump Administration," could be "the disruption of the belief in neutral gov't statistics that form the epistemological foundation of shared social, economic & political reality." www.the-american-interest.com/2018/04/17/d...

"It is time to develop a new geocentric model — not in the astronomical sense, but philosophically: a fundamental awareness that places the Earth system at the centre of our thinking and actions, and that considers the raison de Terre as the keystone of global governance." aeon.co/essays/we-ne...

“the energy transition is likely to become the locus of a new eco-ideological Cold War that will reshape global alignments and provoke existential resistance from the fossil-fueled ancien régime.”

Join us for our public event w/ @quinnslobodian.com on the neoliberal roots of the populist right. Professor of #InternationalHistory @bostonu.bsky.social, Quinn Slobodian was named as one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers by @prospectmagazine.co.uk 📅 21st May, Maison de la paix 👉 shorturl.at/EGNk6

Looks great!

Great article on the unexpected founders of neoliberalism.

"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro... Here is a thread on what we have put together:

Absolutely superb inaugural lecture by @janinadill.bsky.social Congrats Thank you for the cameo for my X feed around 36:00 youtu.be/PcrzgZ4b7mc?...