I wrote about AMOC newrepublic.com/article/2091...

they’re building huge new datacentres around the corner from here (in Denmark) and somehow sell this as “digital sovereignty“… there’s no digital sovereignty as long as most public institutions depend on Microsoft.

The first paper of my dissertation is published now in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social!

Press coverage of the richest Germans is rare but focused on a minority of highly visible individuals and varies along the historical origins of fortunes.

doi.org/10.1177/00380385261428292

"For every additional dollar of windfall profit, approximately $0.20 is booked in tax havens. This diversion intensifies during commodity booms."

Noteworthy in light of <gestures broadly at the world>

taxobservatory.world/publication/...

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmental...

This was a bit of a labour. First drafted in the first days of the trump in a fever that is largely gone from this version. But insurance, finance, theory and a Stuart hall cameo survive if you like that kind of thing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures Despite the significant environmental and social concerns associated with deep-sea mining, the International Seabed Authority (ISA)—the organization tasked with governing the international seabed—i...

The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

UK accused of 'undermining human rights commitments' over Xinjiang carbon capture aid - Land and Climate Review UK foreign aid helped to develop Chinese fossil fuel extraction in a region where the oil sector is associated with forced labour risks, a new investigation has found.

Today we published our latest investigation, into climate aid & carbon capture.

UK funds that could have funded clean energy in poor countries instead developed Chinese oil extraction - including in Xinjiang while Uyghurs were facing human rights abuses.

1/7🧵👇

landclimate.org/xinjiang-ccus/

How is law used to make voluntary carbon markets liquid?

Lukas Bogner traces how UNIDROIT's standardisation of carbon credits reshapes property rights in the Global South and drives jurisdictional competition in the Global North.

Open access here:

Thank you!!

Thank you! I found your concept of assetization cascades really cool.

Weil die AfD (wenn es gerade passt) ziemlich libertär/marktradikal auftritt und das in eingen Kreisen als "Wirtschaftskompetenz" gilt.

🇪🇺🇮🇳 The EU–India FTA has landed. Two points:

(1) The obligation to effectively implement Paris has been weakened: "effectively" has been dropped.
(2) The dispute settlement process is 100% political: no expert review, no remedies.

All in all, a significant weakening of the trade-climate nexus 🔻

Drawing on work by @keanbirch.bsky.social @greenprofgreen.bsky.social @nickbernards.bsky.social @hadoose.bsky.social @paullangley.bsky.social @saraheknuth.bsky.social among many others :)

New Paper out with @financeandspace.bsky.social (open access!) about attempts to make voluntary carbon markets 'liquid' via legal standardization, and a source of climate finance for the Global South. Plenty of strange things happening in the process. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 Publication day! The first paper from my project on Europe’s EV battery roll-out is finally out

I unpack how the EU’s EV battery boom is entangled with sacrifice zones—investment in Serbia & Hungary de-risked through autocracy.
www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Climate change obstruction in Africa: the case of African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO) Legacy emissions, climate colonialism, and climate apartheid are central themes in contemporary discussions surrounding climate action in Africa. Nevertheless, there exists a scarcity of research f...

New interesting looking paper on Climate obstruction and the African Petroleum Producers Organization.

Research on climate obstruction is dominated by studies of the North American and European context, so this kind of research is very welcome!

Power in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production Abstract. Supply-side climate policy initiatives that restrict fossil fuel production are gathering momentum. A growing body of academic scholarship seeks to understand this new frontier in global cli...

Check out our new article "Power in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production" co-authored with @peternewell.bsky.social @freddiedaley.bsky.social and Daniela Soto Hernandez in @gepjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨

What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions

I just taught IPE students about mercantilism and the limits to historical comparison today, will share this with them! :)

Manufacturers pivot from EV batteries to storage as AI boom drives demand Retooling of factories comes as cell makers have cancelled enough capacity to produce 2mn electric cars

So instead of electrifying vehicle fleets to address climate change we are are instead using battery technology to drive more AI slop? No thanks.

www.ft.com/content/8b0a...

PhD Fellowship in Indigenous Rights and the Green Transition in the Arctic The Department of Social Sciences and Business (ISE), Roskilde University, invites applications for a position as PhD fellow as part of the Danish Research Coun

PhD Position at Roskilde University - indigenous rights, green transition in the arctic. Great colleagues! Feel free to share. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

EU research excludes refugee scholars through contradictory policies. Academic freedom is meaningless if it applies only to scholars with the privilege of unrestricted mobility.

Read the statement by the @europeanisa.bsky.social endorsing concerns raised by @isanet.bsky.social

New development: Climate consulting and the transformation of climate governance External consultancies’ involvement in climate governance has grown substantially in recent years. Public sector managers encounter them in government tasks from policy research and design to clima...

In honour of the FT and Statista declaring Deloitte and PwC the top consultancies for sustainability services, worth re-upping @rosiecollington.bsky.social's and my piece on the rise of climate consulting:

Ownership infinity pools: finding control strategies in multinational enterprises Understanding the role of the firm and the corporation is an ongoing concern for political economy scholars. Following the increasing influence of the Multinational Enterprise (MNEs) and its develo...

Ownership infinity pools: finding control strategies in multinational enterprises, by David P. Castro & Leonard Seabrooke

It's like the guy from Suno claiming that musicians don't actually like to make music...

"Global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions, even in the near term, without imposing hardship on communities and the environment"

SpaceX is 100% correct about this, even if their proposed solution is hollow nonsense

www.spacex.com/updates#xai-...

Congrats, looking forward to read!!

On the 22nd of January (incidentally, the date of Gramsci's birthday) my article came out in @gpejournal.bsky.social

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

PhD Fellowship – Open Call: International Section The Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, invites applications for a position as PhD of Social Science from September 1st, 2026, or a

Roskilde University has an open call for PhD proposals at the international section, great for interdisciplinary critical research in IPE, sciology, socio-legal studies, etc. Come and apply! (and please share if you know someone who would want to join us) :) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...