What the Biden Admin’s Labor-Forward Clean Energy Strategy Tells Us About Inclusive Industrial Policies As a surprising new World Bank report further mainstreams industrial policy, the debate over incorporating labor standards persists.

NEW from @rooseveltinstitute.org:

🔥Major report from @betonyjones.bsky.social
@joepeck.co.uk on how Biden pursued pro-labor clean energy policy.

🔥Me 👇on why this matters, and what a new World Bank about-face on industrial policy tells us about this era
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More Universities Hit With Another Round Of Faculty And Program Cuts Falling enrollment, federal policy turmoil and rising costs have led to a new round of university budget cuts involving faculty termination and academic program closures.

This story about 5 universities cutting programs and laying off people due to budget shortfalls is worth a read if you’re in higher ed www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

It was a pleasure to discuss "Global Governance Under Fire" on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. Check out the episode here or wherever you listen to podcasts! newbooksnetwork.com/global-gover...

Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs. A stitched together majority, as expected.

Read along thread here.👇
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PhD student in International Relations The Department of Economic History and International Relations is a dynamic and strong education and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. Its International Re

📚 2 PhD positions in International Relations at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social! The positions are linked to my ERC-project about local change and public support for protectionism #academicsky #polisky
Deadline April 10, 2026, apply here! 👇
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I’m co-organizing this interdisciplinary @europeanisa.bsky.social workshop on the UNSC in gorgeous Izmir this summer July 1-3, alongside Stefano Recchia (SMU). Still a few days left to submit abstracts (Feb 11). Consider sending yours in!

In California, a handful of billionaires are pouring tens of millions into campaigns to block a one-time 5% wealth tax—money that would fund health care cut by the federal government. From @prospect.org ⬇️

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Multiple UNU #vacancies, including senior roles, are available in Canada, Germany, Ghana, Malaysia, the Netherlands, South Africa and Venezuela.

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I’m very happy to receive my hardcopy of the new Research Handbook on Climate Finance and Investment Law (@elgarpublishing.bsky.social ), co-edited with Michael Mehling.

A free access version of our intro chapter is available here: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

Opinion | Europe Has a Bazooka. Time to Use It.

“Most Americans don’t agree with Mr. Trump’s trying to buy Greenland, and many more oppose the idea of taking it by force. Fantasies deflate quickly once real costs become obvious, but it is impossible for Europe to impose costs without incurring risks itself.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

America vs. the World President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

“The American-dominated liberal world order is over. The United States has decided it no longer wishes to play its role of providing global security. The American might that upheld the world order of the past 80 years will now be used to destroy it.”

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
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The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.

You can read my take on Trump's illegal invasion of Venezuela here: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Call for papers! @danielleresnick.bsky.social , @philbakernz.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue in the journal Food Policy on "Rebuilding Global Food Governance amidst a Crisis of Multilateralism" - Papers due Feb.1, 2026. For more info, see link!

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Indiana Senate rejects Trump's redistricting effort The redistricting bill would have likely given the GOP two more seats in Congress.

BREAKING: Indiana Senate rejects Trump's redistricting effort

Full abstract:

5/Leap-of-faith may or may not be effective, but the structure raises accountability issues and represents a fundamental break from trends of contributors tightening control over IO resources through stringent monitoring and reporting requirements and earmarked funding arrangements.

4/We call this the “leap-of-faith” approach: Through their investments, IOs are attempting to increase the ability of other actors—such as commercial banks or limited liability —to finance climate projects.

3/when de-risking, IOs allocate funds through guarantees, equity investments, loans, and other instruments, often (not always) intending to mobilize private capital for mitigation/adaptation efforts that will materialize DOWNSTREAM (rather than for projects identified and vetted in advance)

2/de-risking projects expand the work of env/climate IOs to include economic and financial policy; this often includes advice to states and domestic banks more often associated with institutions like IMF and WB.

Takeaways: 1/de-risking and institutional investor language has risen across ALL five IOs in our study: (MDB and UN; development and climate; regional and global) since around 2016. The language is as prevalent or more prevalent at the UNFCCC financial mechanisms and UNDP than at the MDBs.

We document the rise in the language of de-risking and institutional investors at 5 IOs (GCF/GCF/IDA/ADB/UNDP) that deliver climate finance and evaluate how de-risking projects are changing the work of the GCF and GEF.

Multilateral Climate Finance in Pursuit of Private Capital: How the De-Risking Agenda Is Changing International Organizations Abstract. In the last decade, international financial institutions have advocated that multilateral funding be leveraged to reduce the risk of institutional investors, such as pensions and mutual fund...

New paper @gepjournal.bsky.social

“Multilateral Climate Finance and the Pursuit of Private Capital: How the De-Risking Agenda is Changing IOs”

Thanks to @kellogginstitute.bsky.social for research support!

Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.

BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.

Come work with me and the great climate community at Brown University, incl @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social

Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

"Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment" via The #DailyPenn: www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Georgetown University M.A. in European Studies Flynn Memorial Scholarship Nomination This form should be used to submit your nomination for the Flynn Memorial Scholarship at the BMW Center for German and European Studies. This scholarship will cover tuition for the top applicant for t...

Do you have a student that would be a great candidate for a MA in European Studies at Georgetown? Nominate them for a Flynn Scholarship to come and study with us at the BMW Center for German and European Studies.
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A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Chicago just went all in on renewable energy » Yale Climate Connections From City Hall to O’Hare Airport, every city-owned building now runs on renewables.

Chicago just went all in on renewable energy and is demonstrating that it works. Chicago now powers EVERY city-owned building – from airports to police stations – with renewable energy. That includes O’Hare airport.