Professor of International Relations at LSE & Academic Dean of TRIUM Global EMBA. Global environmental politics, international political economy & global business.
https://www.robertfalkner.org
Robert Falkner
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MORE JOBS! The Dept of Politics is looking to recruit up to SEVEN new lecturers, with five as T&S and two as T&R. Any field is great, but we have gaps in British Politics, Theory, Public Pol, Comparative. The ad for the T&S can be found here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW437/l... @livunipol.bsky.social
I am so shocked and saddened by this news. Raúl Pacheco-Vega was such a generous and kind person, supporting and offering his wisdom to so many people, far and near. This is just awful. Que descanse en paz.
📚My new book has a cover! To be published in September 2026.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
And join us for a debate on the future of trade policy and the international trade regime on 20 May 2026, 18.30-20.00, at @lseevents.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/events/trade-2
You can download the paper at ppr.lse.ac.uk/articles/10....
... the weaponisation of economic interdependence and the anti-globalisation shift in Western public opinion, create the conditions for trade tariffs to remain high beyond Trump's time in the White House.
The key question is how smaller powers can respond to the weaponisation of tariffs.
...marks not merely a revival of economic protectionism, but a qualitative shift towards tariffs as a tool of geopolitical strategy.
Trump, the self-declared "Tariff Man", is clearly a key factor in this story. However, the combination of a deepening US-China rift, ...
📚My new paper on "Geopolitics and Tariffs: An International Relations Perspective" has just been published in the @lsepress.bsky.social journal Public Policy Review's latest special issue.
In this paper, I argue that the dramatic escalation of tariffs under Trump 2.0 ...
