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Jean-Frédéric Morin
@jfmorin.bsky.social
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Prof, Université Laval (Québec) | International institutions and global environmental governance / Institutions internationales et gouvernance mondiale de l'environnement | il/he | https://www.chaire-epi.ulaval.ca/en/jean-frederic-morin .. more

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Earth System Governance Project @esgproject.bsky.social · 1d
📊 Launch of the Earth System Governance Data Directory

A living and collaborative open-access resource to help researchers and practitioners find and share existing and upcoming datasets relevant to global environmental governance.

🔗 www.earthsystemgovernance.org/news/launch-...
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 3d
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations
International organisations (IOs) collect and disseminate a wide array of statistics. In many cases, the phenomena these statistics seek to quantify defy precise measurement. Hard-to-measure statis...
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Guillaume Beaumier @gbeaumier.bsky.social · 7d
About twenty leading scholars came together at ENAP to reflect on the future of AI and emerging technologies governance. Here’s what it looks like when they answer my questions for you (in French and English). 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6s...
Gouverner l'IA et les nouvelles technologies | Guillaume Beaumier et invité·es | Rétroaction
YouTube video by ENAPtv
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Centre de recherche sur la gouvernance mondiale (CIRGoM) @cirgom.bsky.social · 7d
Le CIRGoM est fier d'avoir soutenu cette vidéo sur la gouvernance mondiale des technologies, produite par notre membre associé @gbeaumier.bsky.social (avec la participation d'autres membres, dont @prleblond.bsky.social et @jfmorin.bsky.social) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6s...
Gouverner l'IA et les nouvelles technologies | Guillaume Beaumier et invité·es | Rétroaction
YouTube video by ENAPtv
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Jean-Frédéric Morin @jfmorin.bsky.social · 13d
To be clear, we are not naïve optimists. Damage has been done and will be done. However, under a different institutional architecture, the outcome could have been even worse.
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Jean-Frédéric Morin @jfmorin.bsky.social · 13d
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Jean-Frédéric Morin @jfmorin.bsky.social · 13d
🚨 New paper: Will global environmental governance survive Trump?
@rakhyunkim.bsky.social and I argue that its high complexity makes it more resilient than other governance systems. We give hegemonic stability theory a complexity science twist.

📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/1758...
Too Complex to Fail: The Stability of Global Environmental Governance Beyond Hegemony
The recent US disengagement from global governance has revived concerns—first theorized in the 1970s and 1980s—about the vulnerability of international institutions to hegemonic decline. While these ...
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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · 13d
BREAKING: UN Declaration On Noncommunicable Diseases Fails To Win Approval After US Foils Consensus - Health Policy Watch
NEW YORK CITY - A painstakingly negotiated Political Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases with overwhelming support from UN member states failed to win
healthpolicy-watch.news
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Jean-Frédéric Morin @jfmorin.bsky.social · 16d
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Jean-Frédéric Morin @jfmorin.bsky.social · 16d
📢 CfA: Two fully funded PhD positions on China’s Science Silk Road and the new geopolitics of knowledge. One on environmental issues🌱, the other on outer space 🚀
🎓 Competitive stipend
🌍 Intl project (Québec–Berlin–Oslo)
Encourage your MA students to apply!
www.cirgom.ulaval.ca/call-applica...
Call for Applications: Two Scholarships to Start a PhD in Sept 2026
www.cirgom.ulaval.ca
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Centre de recherche sur la gouvernance mondiale (CIRGoM) @cirgom.bsky.social · 16d
📣Appel à candidatures: Deux bourses💰 pour commencer un doctorat👩‍🎓 en sept 2026 sur la Route de la soie scientifique de la Chine et la nouvelle géopolitique de la production de connaissances. 🌏🔬https://www.cirgom.ulaval.ca/appel-candidature-deux-bourses-pour-commencer-un-doctorat-en-septembre-2026
Appel à candidature: Deux bourses pour commencer un doctorat en septembre 2026
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Jean-Frédéric Morin @jfmorin.bsky.social · 16d
The UNFCCC and the Paris Agr are not the only game in town. Hundreds of non-climate treaties (incl. on freshwater and oceans) generate climate-related decisions. In this IDOS policy brief, A. Olivier and I explore their contributions to climate governance. www.idos-research.de/policy-brief...
Climate mainstreaming in environmental treaties
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Centre de recherche sur la gouvernance mondiale (CIRGoM) @cirgom.bsky.social · 19d
Le premier colloque étudiant du CIRGoM fut un franc succès. 14 présentations sur différents aspects de la gouvernance mondiale, incluant la sécurité humaine, l'environnement, les alliances et les conflits territoriaux. Bravo à tous/tes les participant/e/s!!
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Université Laval @ulaval.ca · 20d
Louise Fréchette, ancienne vice-secrétaire générale des Nations unies, était conférencière invitée pour inaugurer le Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la gouvernance mondiale
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Vers la fin du multilatéralisme?
Louise Fréchette, ancienne vice-secrétaire générale des Nations unies, était conférencière invitée pour inaugurer le Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la gouvernance mondiale
nouvelles.ulaval.ca
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François Gemenne @gemenne.bsky.social · 29d
Entre janvier et juin, la Chine a installé plus du double de la capacité en énergie solaire que l’ensemble des autres pays du monde. Et je ne suis pas sûr qu’on prenne la mesure de ce qui est en train de se jouer. 1/..
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Sep 7
So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org

110 top experts from around the world

13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change

A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this

Will be free online Oct 14 1/x

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Cover of new book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment from Oxford University Press. Shows cows, smokestacks, jets, oil refineries, cell phones and a man in a suit talking to an audience
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IE Political Science @iepolisci.bsky.social · Sep 5
🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨

We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.

We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · Aug 29
ICYMI, it may too late for the polar ice sheets ...
Paris Agreement Target for Warming Won’t Protect Polar Ice Sheets, Scientists Warn - Inside Climate News
New research suggests the Earth will pass multiple dangerous tipping points at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, the U.N. limit exceeded for much of the last two years.
insideclimatenews.org
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Jean-Frédéric Morin @jfmorin.bsky.social · Aug 25
📢 Student essay competition on environmental agreements 🌱📝. Submit your paper using the IEADB dataset; You could win the $500 R Mitchell Prize 🏆.More info at www.iea.ulaval.ca/en/essay-com...
Essay Competition
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · Aug 21
Another piece I’ve been working on for a while… many parts of North America used to burn as much (or even more) than present, but climate change is also making wildfires worse… so how do we explain this? I spoke to experts and dive into the details:
https://thetradeoff.substack.com/p/north-americas-forests-used-to-burn
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Guillaume Beaumier @gbeaumier.bsky.social · Aug 20
In a recent article, @jfmorin.bsky.social and I argued that the rise of private space organizations like SpaceX was not primarily driven by ingenious tech entrepreneurs. At its heart, their rise was made possible by the support of public organizations like NASA 👩‍🚀
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The organizational ecology of the global space industry
The global space industry is booming. While governmental agencies used to dominate outer space activities, private space organizations (PSOs) now launch rockets, operate strategic satellites, and e...
www.tandfonline.com
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Guillaume Beaumier @gbeaumier.bsky.social · Aug 20
"In an act of hubris, NASA gave life to a creature called SpaceX, believing it could help achieve humanity’s loftiest ambitions. But, as in all great parables about technology, the creation eclipsed the creator." 🛰️🧵

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline
The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.
www.theatlantic.com
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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 18
"For half an hour, I vented everything I had been holding in for months … my supervisor … then calmly offered a line I’ll never forget: 'You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.' That one sentence landed softly, but it cracked something open." https://scim.ag/4lt1Ru0
An illustration of a man riding a bike surrounded by wheels and other bike parts, with text: How a Ph.D. is like riding a bike
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Jean-Frédéric Morin @jfmorin.bsky.social · Aug 16
Thank you to all those who provided comments, including at the 2023 Commons in Space conference (Xiao-Shan Yap & ‪‪@marcojanssen.bsky.social), and the 2024 Munich Workshop (Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt, @randallhenning.bsky.social, and @ofioretos.bsky.social, and our discussant Duncan Snidal)

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Jean-Frédéric Morin @jfmorin.bsky.social · Aug 16
These findings are particularly relevant to the literatures on #informal #global #governance, #regime #complexes, and #space politics.
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Jean-Frédéric Morin @jfmorin.bsky.social · Aug 16
For example, do they prioritise a treaty and let bureaucrats iron out details in non-binding instruments? Or do they first experiment with low-commitment agreements before eventually settling on a more permanent treaty?
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Jean-Frédéric Morin @jfmorin.bsky.social · Aug 16
Is there a discernible pattern to how states structure the sequence of their binding and non-binding agreements?
@paulinepic.bsky.social and I explore this question in a new @internatltheory.bsky.social paper, available in Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Sequencing binding and non-binding agreements: the case of outer space governance | International Theory | Cambridge Core
Sequencing binding and non-binding agreements: the case of outer space governance
www.cambridge.org
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Association of Law and Political Economy @a-lpe.bsky.social · Aug 13
📢 Heads up! The Association of Law & Political Economy is accepting submissions for our first-ever conference starting THIS Friday 🎉
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Centre de recherche sur la gouvernance mondiale (CIRGoM) @cirgom.bsky.social · Aug 12
🌠 Le CIRGoM dans Le Soleil !

« Les satellites sont utiles, mais ils transforment notre ciel nocturne », rappelle Jean Frederic Morin, le directeur de CIRGoM.
Avec Cynthia Couette, membre étudiante, il éclaire les enjeux d’un ciel étoilé face à la prolifération des satellites. 💫
Les étoiles filantes éclipsées par les satellites
Entre le 11 et le 14 août, éloignez-vous des lumières de la ville et tournez le regard vers le ciel. Le spectacle des Perséides, une pluie de météores, se produira sous vos yeux.
www.lesoleil.com
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