Venezuela is an important oil producer (~top15 in global ranking), with some of the world's largest proven oil reserves. Supply chocked last year but export to 🇨🇳 was picking up.
The current uncertainty will be profitable to other fossil giants (🇷🇺)
Unless, just an idea: we take renewables seriously
And remember to highlight in particular the *benefits* that a healthy EV market can have for the economy *at home* (the abroad scenario has less of an effect).
@patrickbayer.bsky.social and I have the evidence for that:
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
BJPolS abstract discussing the influence of international climate concerns on public sentiments and policy in regions with costly adjustments, highlighting the need for regional cooperation and sympathetic reactions based on geographical contexts.
From October 2025 -
Climate Policy Costs, Regional Politics, and Backlash against International Co-operation - https://cup.org/47BYSeS
- @patrickbayer.bsky.social & @fgenovese.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
"It is important to understand whether people in left-behind regions– such as former coal communities – feel that the transition is something done with them rather than to them."
@patrickbayer.bsky.social & @fgenovese.bsky.social
on climate cooperation and devolution
ukandeu.ac.uk/climate-coop...
A wrote a piece on what the UK budget means for climate change for our @uofgpolicy.bsky.social
Check it out!
"The legitimacy of climate cooperation hinges not only on economic support packages or technological solutions, but also on institutional trust and regional political voice."
@patrickbayer.bsky.social & @fgenovese.bsky.social on place-based politics and climate policy
ukandeu.ac.uk/climate-coop...
Great to see this paper with @patrickbayer.bsky.social and @fgenovese.bsky.social in First View at @psrm.bsky.social!
Re-upping the paper thread for the occasion: bsky.app/profile/fgen...
Stock returns of oil majors (and oil price) jumped after Trump's latest sanctions on Russian oil firms.
That was predictable: in a new (conditionally accepted) paper at @psrm.bsky.social, @patrickbayer.bsky.social, @fgenovese.bsky.social, and I show exactly that.
Paper: tinyurl.com/49t7z5ap 1/3
Feels like yesterday...
Really looking forward to this talk at @hertiesustain.bsky.social in a few weeks.
Thanks for having me!
The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!
📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
📍 ICC Belfast
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025
🧵
Also more stuff in the works on backlash against different types of renewables with evidence from 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, 🇫🇷, and 🇳🇴, so stay tuned...
😂😂😂
Good news for European political science! Thanks for everyone involved who made this happen.
Became an EPSS member today, and so can you!
Very competitive fees that will go a long way to fund next year's conference and not just a reception ticket (some may say).
Climate Policy Costs, Regional Politics and Backlashagainst International Cooperation by Patrick Bayer and Federica Genovese. This paper investigates the conditions under which subnational concerns shape public assessments of international climate governance. In line with existing literature, we maintain that costly policy adjustments fuel negative views of international cooperation in policy exposed regions. At the same time, we argue that the more resentful relations are with the national center of politics, the more sympathetic these regions areto international institutions and global governance. Based on geographically targeted survey data from theUnited Kingdom, we find that fossil fuel-intensive regions with strong, institutionalized regional politics have more positive assessments of international climate cooperation than structurally similar regions where regional political institutions are less pronounced. The findings show that regional politics characteristics are key for understanding climate policy beliefs among citizens that bear the brunt of adjustments to international climate agreements
🚨Global public action (climate!) is most effective when countries do it together yet we're in a period of IO backlash rooted in left-behind places
Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same?
@patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵
osf.io/rtymv
Getting a paper accepted is always nice, getting it accepted after almost two years in peer review feels super special! 🎉🎉🎉
🚨Climate politics job alert🚨
Interested in the opportunity to focus on your own climate politics research project for 1 year in a stimulating and supportive environment at a leading university in Berlin?
Open to postdocs & graduates.
hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...
Looking forward to an exciting trip with colleagues to our long-standing partner, Nankai University, for a joint workshop on "New Trends of International Political Economy in Turbulent Times."
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social
"A new voting system and sausage sizzles" - excellent advice from @ariadnevromen.bsky.social in @scotsman.com on what the UK and Scotland can learn from Australia's recent election - and how to turn around the low voting turn outs that have benefitted Reform UK.
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
I hate academic FOMO! Enough said...
May I present the social science "double helix" of country engagement across topics...
Not all plots are useful...🙃
Happy St Patrick's Day, I guess.
‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved.
More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:
Good conversation tonight with the President of the Bundesbank, Dr Nagel, about transition finance @uofgasbs.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Please nominate for awards for the Int'l Collaboration section of APSA! Best article, dissertation, book, and mentor awards!
Deadline is March 3, 2025. Submissions should be sent by email to daniela.donno@ou.edu. You can find the award criteria and info here: apsanet.org/membership/o...
Also, come and join our Section 48! 😀
It's a great community and THE section for anyone working on international collaboration, IOs, IPE, global governance!
Serving on this year's "Best Dissertation Award" committee for @apsa.bsky.social @intlcollaboration.bsky.social Section.
Send your students' best dissertation work to our section chair @danieladonno.bsky.social by 3 March! Self-nominations welcome!
Details here: apsanet.org/membership/o...
PS: I'm fully aware that I'm very privileged here in that my career does not depend on the immediate publication of this paper which we're very proud of.
Proud to have pulled a basically accepted paper (with full consent of co-authors) from peer review today in response to questionable editorial practice to "force" us to add citations to five substantively unrelated papers that the editor was a co-author of. 🤯
#researchintegrity
More evidence that everyone who believes we still have time is a fool.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...