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Paul Beaumont

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Senior Researcher at NUPI; Editor at Cooperation & Conflict. Interests: global environmental politics, international institutions, nukes, hierarchies & dodgy-indicators. If you really do learn most from mistakes then I'm a genius. .. more

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 10d

📣 Yet another SI for you, folks! Delighted to announce the publication of a @gepjournal.bsky.social special issue on “Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene”, co-edited with my dear colleague Bruna Bosi-Moreira.
👉 direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...

Volume 25 Issue 3 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

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McGill PoliSci @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social · Sep 9

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The McGill University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in International Relations, with an emphasis on global governance and/or international security.

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · Apr 2

Large swaths of Trump's agenda are bad for capital, yet despite strong incentives to collectively mobilize AND significant power to exert their will, we have seen very little resistance from big business interests. Why?

Below, five non-mutually exclusive possibilities that have occurred to me:

Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · Apr 1

I don't know about you, but I am getting impatient waiting for the capitalists to save us. What happened to the whole "state as the managing committee of the bourgeoisie" thing? A political economy 🧵 1/

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Matt McDonald @mattuq.bsky.social · Jun 20

The latest in my book & beer series (it’s been a while) is this wonderful collection I was privileged to contribute to, edited by brilliant colleagues at @nupinytt.bsky.social- @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @lucasdopaes.bsky.social. Paired with a Range Hazy IPA!

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Sasha Darling PHD, MD, DSL @sashadarling.bsky.social · Dec 24

I made a gingerbread panopticon

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · Jul 15

"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people."

Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF.

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My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Dec 6

Speculation in crypto, in & of itself, isn't a financial stability problem. What makes it so is that deregulation + large global capital inflows + large banks speculating with that capital will trigger a 2008-style systemic banking crisis. This is a regular, predictable pattern across space & time.

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Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · Jul 12

To learn more about the APSA Ideas, Knowledge and Politics section and the former winners of the Friedman Prize follow this link: apsanet.org/membership/o...

Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · Jul 12

I wasn't able to pick up the award in person, hence the picture of me holding it next to a tree looking pleased.

You can find out more about the book - and if you have the money and the urge, buy it - here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · Jul 12

The prize committee described the book as a “fascinating, well-researched, and beautifully written contribution that speaks well to our section’s goal of highlighting the role ideas play in shaping politics across borders.”

Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · Jul 12

🐳 🥳 Happy news to share! My book - The Grammar of Status Competition - has been awarded the Jeffrey Friedman Best Book Award: The APSA's Knowledge, Ideas and Politics section book prize. This is the first - and perhaps last! - academic award I have ever received, so it means a lot. 1/4

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Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · Jul 12

To learn more about the APSA Ideas, Knowledge and Politics section and the former winners of the Friedman Prize follow this link: apsanet.org/membership/o...

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · Jun 26

📢 The volume "Governing Nature and the Making of World Order", edited by the great team of @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @lucasdopaes.bsky.social, is out now. And it's OA.
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Paul Beaumont @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social · Jun 20

An excellent combination Matt! I would just add that the book is very flexible: pairs well with all known liquids. Thanks for your outstanding contribution! It is consistent with your much appreciated dedication to the project that you have gotten ahead of the editors on the promotion! :)

Matt McDonald @mattuq.bsky.social · Jun 20

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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · Jun 18

If climate finance only flows to what’s bankable, how do we fund what's actually necessary? My research contributes to the boon in evidence showing how derisking locks governments into private finance-oriented & ineffective transitions - leaving essential but unbankable sectors behind

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Norwegian Institute of International Affairs @nupinytt.bsky.social · Jun 13

🎯 Open research positions!

We’re hiring three Postdoctoral candidates/Senior Researchers for Navigator – an ERC-funded project exploring how country performance indicators shape global governance.

📍Oslo | 🕐 Initial 2-year contract

Apply here: www.nupi.no/en/about-nup...

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Pål Røren @palroren.bsky.social · May 6

Very happy to see my piece "The power of recognition: rethinking the instrumentality of status in world politics" being published in @iajournal.bsky.social

Read the full OA-article here: academic.oup.com/ia/article/d...

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · May 5

25% tariff on a whiskey drink
37% tariff on a Vodka drink
85% tariff on a Lager drink
110% tariff on a cider drink

132% tariff on songs that remind you of the good times
138% tariff on songs that remind you of the better times

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · May 3

#Britain’s populist surge isn’t born of rage, but neglect. What #ReformUK reaps in the local elections is not rebellion, but inheritance—from towns where policy forgot to tread and hope was for long left to rot.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · Apr 30

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

Tim Naftali's tweet on the termination of the HAC members without cause.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Apr 30

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Apr 14

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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Albert Weale @albertpweale.bsky.social · Apr 11

Very informative chart from Washington Post

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