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Check out our new piece in @ripejournal.bsky.social on the petrochemical historical bloc, the UN Global Plastics Treaty, and the battle for plastic hegemony. This was a real labour of love and so glad to see this finally out!

New article in @ripejournal.bsky.social w/ @sebhaug.bsky.social and Han Cheng on China's new Global Development Initiative. We contend that the GDI is a form of institutional layering that serves as a component of China's counter-hegemonic strategy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

The battle for plastic hegemony: the petrochemical historical bloc and the UN Global Plastics Treaty Plastics are a ubiquitous feature of contemporary consumer capitalism. Despite scientific evidence and public awareness of the mounting health and environmental impacts of plastics pollution, globa...

new open access paper with colleagues @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @jptilsted.bsky.social in @ripejournal.bsky.social

it offers a neo-gramscian perspective on the political economy of plastics / plastic pollution, exploring attempts by dominant actors to sustain 'plastic hegemony'

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

Multilateralism continues to be challenged as leading states take unilateral actions. This article traces the shift away from multilateralism to explore the emergence of a non-hegemonic world. @iliasalami.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social@tomchodor.bsky.social 

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

Over at Phenomenal World, @iliasalami.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social, and @tomchodor.bsky.social consider the causes and consequences of the emerging post-multilateral world.

'Post-multilateralism': so hot right now

New piece for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, written with @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @tomchodor.bsky.social! It's an attempt at grasping the dismantling of multilateral global governance, in light of intensifying geopolitical rivalries, resurgent state capitalism, and hegemonic crisis. Link below:

Our forum on oligarchic sovereignty is now available from @risjnl.bsky.social!

And for free, thanks to the University of Glasgow. A very affordable holiday gift for anyone in your life trying to better understand our new world of tech billionaires' massive wealth and political power.

What is "oligarchic sovereignty" and can it explain the tech bro seizure of the US government and its effects on the world? I discuss with some very thoughtful colleagues here: cup.org/3KZzRly

Free to read as a Christmas gift to you all:

Wonderful to have a contribution among these incredible and thoughtful scholars trying to make sense of the Silicon Valley technology elite and corporate forms of power and sovereignty

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Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order - https://cup.org/3KZzRly

- @maharafiatal.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social, @sethschindler.bsky.social, Sarah Logan et al

Corporate Power in a Multistakeholder World: Venue Hopping and the Multilevel Politics of Ultra‐Processed Food The regulation of business is increasingly characterized by “soft” governance regimes that blur the boundaries of public and private authority, as signaled by the rapid proliferation of multistakehol...

new article in @reggovjournal.bsky.social that examines how corporations engage in 'venue hopping' as a means to advance agendas in multiple spaces and at multiple levels

This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world

“There is little cause for celebration: progress has been dismal.”

Excellent article by @benjaminfaude.bsky.social @jacktaggart.bsky.social who argue that the global governance of the Sustainable Development Goals has undermined progress.

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Please check out not only this piece by @jacktaggart.bsky.social & myself, but also our Special Section on 'The SDGs at 10' in @globalpolicy.bsky.social.

The Sustainable Development Goals at 10: how global governance is undermining progress This month marks ten years since the adoption of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Yet there is little cause for celebration: progress has been dismal. Benjamin Faude and Jack Taggart argue that...

new blog by @benjaminfaude.bsky.social and @jacktaggart.bsky.social on the UN SDGs, drawing on a recent special issue in @globalpolicy.bsky.social

lots of great contributions, including a paper by myself and Jack Taggart on institutional hybridity in global plastics governance

The Sustainable Development Goals at 10: how global governance is undermining progress This month marks ten years since the adoption of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Yet there is little cause for celebration: progress has been dismal. Benjamin Faude and Jack Taggart argue that...

🌎 This month marks 10 years since the adoption of the UN’s #SustainableDevelopmentGoals. Yet there is little cause for celebration.
🗣️ @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & @jacktaggart.bsky.social argue that the global governance of the goals has undermined progress. #SDGs
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We're advertising not one but TWO permanent(!) Lecturer positions at the mighty QUB: one in International Relations and one in International Public Policy. Deadline for both 13th October. Details -> www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QUBJob...

Last chance to register for the online launch of our Ethics & International Affairs Roundtable "Global Governance in Hard Times".

Registration for online and in-person attendance of our special section launch event on the global governance of the SDGs at 10 is still open! Click here to register tinyurl.com/534s96an

The SDGs at 10: Please join us for a Special Section Launch event on Friday 12 September 14:00-17:00 (BST).

Contributions by Faude & @jacktaggart.bsky.social; @policyrelevant.bsky.social; @danxuu.bsky.social; K. Abraham; J. Loginovic & @docstushi.bsky.social; B. Reinsberg.

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The Sustainable Development Goals at 10: Celebration or Commiseration?

Please join us for a half-day special section launch event marking the tenth anniversary of the UN’s 2030 Agenda on Friday 12th September, 14:00 – 17:00 (BST), Bishop’s Dining Suite, Durham Castle & Online.

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Ten years since the UN's adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals & both the agenda and multilateralism are in a sorry state. Join us in-person at Durham Castle or online for a special section launch event on the global governance of the SDGs. To register click here: tinyurl.com/534s96an

Delighted to see this paper out, co-written with Julia Loginovic where we think about what the #SDGs mean. Rather than concern for their apparent failure we argue they do exactly what they're supposed to: commodify and socialise ever more parts of the world under so-called "neoliberal" hegemony ...

Thank you Blayne!

While industrial policy may well be back, its resurgence is neither uniform nor uncontested. To 'rebuild the ladder' of development, calls for reform of the international monetary & financial system, and for 'green ecological space' @haugejostein.bsky.social, are more urgent than ever 12/12

We contend that these forms of unevenness and asymmetry are both a reflection and an outcome of ongoing contestation over industrial policy in the contemporary global political economy. 11/12

Third, industrial policy is stratified along a three-tiered continuum: advanced economies have few restrictions, geostrategically significant economies benefit from selective flexibility, yet low-income countries face persistent constraints & continued marginalisation. 10/12

Second, the policy tools and instruments mobilised by advanced and developing countries (i.e. the form industrial policy takes) differs significantly, reflecting unequal capacities for experimentation, implementation, and monitoring. 9/12