Hannes Baumann
@hannesbaumann.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool, Arab states' political economy. Views my own, not my employer's. Author "Citizen Hariri: Lebanon's neoliberal reconstruction". He/him
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Hannes Baumann
@hannesbaumann.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution: Gulf monarchies’ deposits to Arab states’ central banks 1998–2022
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) monarchies have deposited several tens of billions of dollars in other Arab states’ central banks since 2011 to prop up recipients’ currencies. GCC currencies do not ...
www.tandfonline.com
New article where I examine Gulf deposits to other Arab states' central banks as monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sobering findings of @ecfrmena.bsky.social report by @tahanimustafa.bsky.social & @hlovatt.bsky.social about Palestinian politics in the West Bank. ecfr.eu/publication/...
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Sobering findings of @ecfrmena.bsky.social report by @tahanimustafa.bsky.social & @hlovatt.bsky.social about Palestinian politics in the West Bank. ecfr.eu/publication/...
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If all they're doing is "fact-checking" AI output + using AI for all reading and writing (which most are), they will never have the opportunity to acquire those fundamental cognitive skills which can only be obtained through the challenging and uncomfortable work of actually reading and writing.
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
If all they're doing is "fact-checking" AI output + using AI for all reading and writing (which most are), they will never have the opportunity to acquire those fundamental cognitive skills which can only be obtained through the challenging and uncomfortable work of actually reading and writing.
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I don't think this is right. These kind of metacognitive tasks require that students *already* have the cognitive skills to critically evaluate a piece of text both for empirical accuracy and strength of argument. In an AI-saturated world, I'm not convinced first-year students do.
Two years ago I had lunch with the dean of a department at one of Toronto’s major universities and she told me she had instructed all her profs teaching first-year classes to do exactly this. It sounded sensible and I wonder if it’s now more widely applied
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I don't think this is right. These kind of metacognitive tasks require that students *already* have the cognitive skills to critically evaluate a piece of text both for empirical accuracy and strength of argument. In an AI-saturated world, I'm not convinced first-year students do.
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We invite you to join us next Friday, 28th November, to celebrate the launch of Dr Claire Pierson's new book "Women's Troubles".
Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool) will be in conversation with Dr Emma Campbell (UU) and Mhairi Claire Lynch (QUB).
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...
Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool) will be in conversation with Dr Emma Campbell (UU) and Mhairi Claire Lynch (QUB).
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
We invite you to join us next Friday, 28th November, to celebrate the launch of Dr Claire Pierson's new book "Women's Troubles".
Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool) will be in conversation with Dr Emma Campbell (UU) and Mhairi Claire Lynch (QUB).
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...
Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool) will be in conversation with Dr Emma Campbell (UU) and Mhairi Claire Lynch (QUB).
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...
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After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
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FINDE DEN DEUTSCHEN KANZLER
Quelle: www.instagram.com/p/DRPTY1tEiF...
Quelle: www.instagram.com/p/DRPTY1tEiF...
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
FINDE DEN DEUTSCHEN KANZLER
Quelle: www.instagram.com/p/DRPTY1tEiF...
Quelle: www.instagram.com/p/DRPTY1tEiF...
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✨ Could you be LAAF’s new CEO? ✨
We're recruiting a new Chief Executive Officer to be a custodian of identity, a steady hand in the present, and a bold architect of LAAF’s future.
For full details including how to apply head to linktr.ee/LAAF_
We're recruiting a new Chief Executive Officer to be a custodian of identity, a steady hand in the present, and a bold architect of LAAF’s future.
For full details including how to apply head to linktr.ee/LAAF_
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
✨ Could you be LAAF’s new CEO? ✨
We're recruiting a new Chief Executive Officer to be a custodian of identity, a steady hand in the present, and a bold architect of LAAF’s future.
For full details including how to apply head to linktr.ee/LAAF_
We're recruiting a new Chief Executive Officer to be a custodian of identity, a steady hand in the present, and a bold architect of LAAF’s future.
For full details including how to apply head to linktr.ee/LAAF_
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An excellent day for the Liverpool politics departments
A superb book launch by the superb @ndmlees.bsky.social at UoL
And a brilliant roundtable at LJMU reflecting on 30 years since the Dayton Peace Agreement organised by @matesuba.bsky.social @birtegippert.bsky.social
A superb book launch by the superb @ndmlees.bsky.social at UoL
And a brilliant roundtable at LJMU reflecting on 30 years since the Dayton Peace Agreement organised by @matesuba.bsky.social @birtegippert.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
An excellent day for the Liverpool politics departments
A superb book launch by the superb @ndmlees.bsky.social at UoL
And a brilliant roundtable at LJMU reflecting on 30 years since the Dayton Peace Agreement organised by @matesuba.bsky.social @birtegippert.bsky.social
A superb book launch by the superb @ndmlees.bsky.social at UoL
And a brilliant roundtable at LJMU reflecting on 30 years since the Dayton Peace Agreement organised by @matesuba.bsky.social @birtegippert.bsky.social
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#Gaza, #Israel und Deutschlands #Außenpolitik: Im aktuellen #GIGAFocus stellen @christinebinzel.bsky.social und @thomaserichter.bsky.social eine Umfrage vor – zum Hamas-Angriff und der folgenden israelischen Militäroffensive Ein Meinungsbild.
➡️ Hier lesen: www.giga-hamburg.de/de/publikati...
➡️ Hier lesen: www.giga-hamburg.de/de/publikati...
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#Gaza, #Israel und Deutschlands #Außenpolitik: Im aktuellen #GIGAFocus stellen @christinebinzel.bsky.social und @thomaserichter.bsky.social eine Umfrage vor – zum Hamas-Angriff und der folgenden israelischen Militäroffensive Ein Meinungsbild.
➡️ Hier lesen: www.giga-hamburg.de/de/publikati...
➡️ Hier lesen: www.giga-hamburg.de/de/publikati...
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In early 2025, the Israeli military launched an operation that emptied three Palestinian refugee camps. They've blocked their residents from returning and razed many of their homes.
In a new report, HRW finds that Israeli forces carried out war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
In a new report, HRW finds that Israeli forces carried out war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
In early 2025, the Israeli military launched an operation that emptied three Palestinian refugee camps. They've blocked their residents from returning and razed many of their homes.
In a new report, HRW finds that Israeli forces carried out war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
In a new report, HRW finds that Israeli forces carried out war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
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Thrilled to see our latest paper published in @iojournal.bsky.social! 🥳
"Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump" co-authored with Tobias Pforr (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and @fabianpape.bsky.social 🙂
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
"Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump" co-authored with Tobias Pforr (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and @fabianpape.bsky.social 🙂
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Thrilled to see our latest paper published in @iojournal.bsky.social! 🥳
"Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump" co-authored with Tobias Pforr (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and @fabianpape.bsky.social 🙂
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
"Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump" co-authored with Tobias Pforr (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and @fabianpape.bsky.social 🙂
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
Looking forward to this roundtable today @ljmuirp.bsky.social
📢 Roundtable: Dayton Peace Agreement – 30 Years On
Join leading experts to discuss lessons learned since 1995.
🗓 19 Nov | 🕒 3–5 PM
📍 LJMU, John Foster Building, Room G.01, Liverpool
🔗 Register via eventbrite.com/e/dayton-peace…
Speakers from Oxford, York, LSE & Liverpool Unis
Join leading experts to discuss lessons learned since 1995.
🗓 19 Nov | 🕒 3–5 PM
📍 LJMU, John Foster Building, Room G.01, Liverpool
🔗 Register via eventbrite.com/e/dayton-peace…
Speakers from Oxford, York, LSE & Liverpool Unis
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Looking forward to this roundtable today @ljmuirp.bsky.social
Happening today, @ndmlees.bsky.social book talk @livunipol.bsky.social
Save the date 📅 We have an upcoming book launch by our very own @ndmlees.bsky.social on November 19th! 📚 Dr Nicholas Lees’ research examines the relationship between inequality, conflict, and democracy in world politics! We hope you can join us for what will be an exciting conversation.
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Happening today, @ndmlees.bsky.social book talk @livunipol.bsky.social
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📢 New Paper Alert!
Happy to share that our article “Following the Free Officers: Explaining the Politics of Coup Contagion & Containment” — co-authored with @drpowell.bsky.social — is forthcoming in International Studies Review.
Are coups actually contagious, and if so, how?
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Happy to share that our article “Following the Free Officers: Explaining the Politics of Coup Contagion & Containment” — co-authored with @drpowell.bsky.social — is forthcoming in International Studies Review.
Are coups actually contagious, and if so, how?
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November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
📢 New Paper Alert!
Happy to share that our article “Following the Free Officers: Explaining the Politics of Coup Contagion & Containment” — co-authored with @drpowell.bsky.social — is forthcoming in International Studies Review.
Are coups actually contagious, and if so, how?
🧵 below (1/)
Happy to share that our article “Following the Free Officers: Explaining the Politics of Coup Contagion & Containment” — co-authored with @drpowell.bsky.social — is forthcoming in International Studies Review.
Are coups actually contagious, and if so, how?
🧵 below (1/)
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Martijn Konings, Fiscal Dominance? — Sidecar
Trump and the Federal Reserve.
newleftreview.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"Each was an act of endurance disguised as motion. To drive one was to participate in a ritual of managed decline. ... Europe needs to avoid becoming what the Wartburg sedan was in 1987—an artifact of ambition fossilized by fear."
Forget derisking. 2025 is about the the quiet MAGA-fication of the European mainstream, one green regulation rollback and green subsidy cut at a time. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-wartbu...
The Wartburg Syndrome
How the Old Continent Risks Becoming the New East Germany
geoeconomic.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"Each was an act of endurance disguised as motion. To drive one was to participate in a ritual of managed decline. ... Europe needs to avoid becoming what the Wartburg sedan was in 1987—an artifact of ambition fossilized by fear."
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Thank you to everyone who attended Dr Claire Pierson’s 📖 launch this afternoon and celebrated her long awaited text ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and feminist politics in post-Agreement Northern Ireland’. It is now available with @manchesterup.bsky.social ! @clairepierson.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended Dr Claire Pierson’s 📖 launch this afternoon and celebrated her long awaited text ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and feminist politics in post-Agreement Northern Ireland’. It is now available with @manchesterup.bsky.social ! @clairepierson.bsky.social
Cutting red tape and ramping up military spending is not going to halt the decline of German industry. www.ft.com/content/239e...
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Cutting red tape and ramping up military spending is not going to halt the decline of German industry. www.ft.com/content/239e...
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BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
The new Private Eye is out now.
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
The new Private Eye is out now.
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⚡️Delighted to see my new article out in International Affairs! doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
October 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
⚡️Delighted to see my new article out in International Affairs! doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
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We will host @clairepierson.bsky.social's 📘 launch this Wednesday (12 November) 3:30-5pm The launch will take place in 126 Mount Pleasant Room 113. Join Pierson and Professor Liz Evans (University of Southampton) for a conversation on contemporary feminist and gender politics:
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November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We will host @clairepierson.bsky.social's 📘 launch this Wednesday (12 November) 3:30-5pm The launch will take place in 126 Mount Pleasant Room 113. Join Pierson and Professor Liz Evans (University of Southampton) for a conversation on contemporary feminist and gender politics:
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Fantastic weekend taking about abortion, creative methods and making our own embroideries and prints. First time I've been drawn on a panel!
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Fantastic weekend taking about abortion, creative methods and making our own embroideries and prints. First time I've been drawn on a panel!
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How to make sense of China’s rise? For Phenomenal World I wrote something on its changing role in global finance.
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
How to make sense of China’s rise? For Phenomenal World I wrote something on its changing role in global finance.
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
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New from me:
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
Billionaire Migration: An Interactive Map
An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,106 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.
wesleystubenbord.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
New from me:
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5