Excellent ! Merci @mbickhardt.bsky.social
Superbe contribution.

The first Africanists: Intellectual Collaboration and the Origins of African Studies in the late 19th to early 20th century. The first Africanists (specialists who study African languages, societies, and history) were not colonial researchers, as is often assumed, but African intellectuals who were actively engaged in the p...

“The first Africanists (specialists who study African languages, societies, and history) were not colonial researchers, as is often assumed, but African intellectuals who were actively engaged in the production of knowledge about their own societies.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-first-...

A Green Cold War In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed.

"If this battle to control the connective tissue of the world economy comes to shape the future of geopolitics and globalisation, then it will also define any future climate and energy transition."

From the Archive: @iliasalami.bsky.social on the Green Cold War

www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...

The state of the state Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our new piece, collectively authored by the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social, reflecting on the state today.

@campolis.bsky.social

Link to the full piece below:

Opinion | Why the Stock Market Makes No Sense Right Now

Great piece
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/o...

My kind of Abundance!

La France insoumise face au capitalisme YouTube video by Hors-Série

What a conversation between J.L Mélenchon and Fred Lordon. Strongly recommend!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7I2...

Kenyan firm sacks more than 1,000 workers after losing Meta contract Meta paused work with Sama last month after allegations about staff viewing private scenes filmed by smart glasses

I’m sure this is unrelated to the fact that last month data workers revealed they were asked by Meta to review video from Meta Ray Bans of user’s intimate moments like having sex or using the bathroom.

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

At a Crossroads: The UK and the Neoliberal World Economy The first of a two-part essay, reimagining the UK’s industrial, security and trade strategy in a multipolar world

Happy my latest publications are out!

Written for @transitionsec.bsky.social c.bsky.social, hosted by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social & @cplusc.bsky.social.

In the first of two essays, I examine the UK's econ model & its impact on the Global South. Read below:

transitionsecurity.org/at-a-crossro...

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David Broder posted the picture on the left and I had to go find the original. ✊

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👉🏽 PAIX DE CARBONE, DÉVELOPPEMENTALISME FOSSILE ET ENVIRONNEMENTALISME LIBÉRAL
« L'aura historique, politique, géopolitique de l'énergie comme réalité stratégique, c'est monumental. S'il y a bien un groupe d'acteurs politiques, une région du monde pour lesquels il a été clair

Monthly review: the idea of the "Uyghur genocide" and the realities of Xinjiang, by Vijay Prashad & Tings Chak

here's another one. spent lots of space proving "there's no mass killing", a big strawman, and the rest talking about economic development. Of course, reeducation camps became "vocational centres" and forced labour transfer became development policies. Of course, no mention of the hundreds of

The Spectre of State Capitalism Published in The AAG Review of Books (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2026)

The book forum on The Spectre of State Capitalism now has an issue in the AAG Review of Books, featuring great contributions by Jerome Roos, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Pavlos Roufos, Juvaria Jafri and Nassar Alnassar, Angus McNelly, Rachel Bok. Check it out!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tomorrow in Copenhagen!

Who Owns the Energy Transition Climate, Imperialism, and the Geopolitics of Energy Frontiers YouTube video by Global Affairs, King's College London

The video recording of the panel with @triofrancos.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh, and myself, is now available on Youtube
Who Owns the Energy Transition Climate, Imperialism, and the Geopolitics of Energy Frontiers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_h...

120 pages into this and completely hooked

Non-Hegemony | Phenomenal World The neoliberal world order is collapsing. In its wake, powerful states have abandoned multilaterialism in pursuit of national aims.

This discussion was based on work with @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @iliasalami.bsky.social, including this article on "non-hegemony" in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social and further research to come www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/non...

🚨 🎙️ Last week I was on @bungacast.bsky.social discussing "post-multilateralism" and the emergence of a apolar & non-hegemonic world, where no power is willing or able to underpin the compromises and concessions necessary for multilateralism to function 👇
bungacast.podbean.com/e/540-welcom...

Hah! Will read with this question in mind!

I'm indeed bloody perplexed at the moment! But I'm sure this'll help. Excited to dig in. @quinnslobodian.com @bentarnoff.com

Absolute insanity

Who Owns the Energy Transition? Climate, Imperialism, and the Geopolitics of Energy Frontiers with Adam Hanieh, Thea Riofrancos, and Ilias Alami | King's College London Join Adam Hanieh, Thea Riofrancos, and Ilias Alami for a discussion on how to think of climate politics in the context of changing energy networks, imperialism, and the remaking of the world order.

Later today!
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/who-o...

Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither....

Link to the Global Policy research article:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Industrial Policy and Imperial Realignment | Phenomenal World Asymmetries in global development

Link to the @phenomenalworld.bsky.social essay
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...

World Bank Embraces Industrial Policy, Abandoning Three Decades of Stigma The bank published a report in 1993 which helped disparage industrial policy. Governments were instead encouraged to let markets operate without direction or barriers.

Link to WSJ piece: www.wsj.com/economy/glob...

Exactly the kind of strategic adaptation @jacktaggart.bsky.social @tomchodor.bsky.social and I analysed last year in a couple of articles for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social and Global Policy.
We also showed the limitations of this conditional embrace of industrial policy for development.
Links below:

No, they are only human beings, flooded with literally thousands of papers, most of which are now AI generated. Despite their best efforts, some (many) papers will slip through the cracks

Foreign investment screening mechanisms and emergent geographies of (post)globalization - Ilias Alami, 2026 Technologically advanced states and large emerging economies increasingly use foreign investment screening mechanisms (FISM) to block inward foreign investment ...

The piece I wrote on foreign investment screening mechanisms now has a journal issue
"Foreign investment screening mechanisms and emergent geographies of (post)globalization"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...