This is an excellent piece and I think it’s true that we are witnessing the death of the myth of peaceful economic sanctions. But this raises the question of what kind of politics is adequate to the death of liberal mythology and the stark revelation of the violent underside of liberal ‘peace’.
“The Trump administration is currently involved in an expansive project to reposition the US national economy and the US state within global critical minerals networks.”
@iliasalami.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social on Trump’s state capitalist turn.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
So nice to see this piece out with @jacktaggart.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social and Peter Dauvergne on global environmental governance in a fracturing liberal political economy... We talk about climate, food and plastics governance as liberal norms erode...
Critical minerals security and US economic interventionism
an excellent outlook on the macro-political economy of inflation
Save the date! Nov 12-14, HU Berlin, part of the Socialization research project at @ktbberlin.bsky.social
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Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/05/crit... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
Jessica Whyte
Concrete Destruction: Costs and Damages of the Concrete and Cement Industry and the Future of Construction
Excited to share a study I co-authored, together with Tom Ackers, Conrad Kunze, Paulina Orozco, and Nils Urbanus, published by the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social
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Great editorial by @equatormag.bsky.social
drawing a parallel between the Strait of Tsushima (1905), the beginning of the end of the Russian and other European Empires, and the Strait of Hormuz (2026) for the US Empire.
www.equator.org/articles/gho...
Over the last two decades, the European Union (EU) has faced a series of intertwined crises, including the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 a...
America’s defeat in the Persian Gulf reveals the world to come
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“Throughout the North and the South, oil shocks lead to upward redistribution of income and wealth”
This month’s Meridional column: @rugitsky.bsky.social on Hormuz, the 2022 energy shock, monetary tightening, and the economic consequences of the war on Iran.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
