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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 3d

Yes

Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 4d

If the admin’s proposed TikTok deal goes through, providing ownership and control over a major social media platform, these concerns only further amplify. TikTok US needs an IPO, not a crony deal. And, US businesses need to wake up that their interest lies in being able to be global companies.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 7d

If you think about politics in these times as fundamentally about building a new kind of social order, rather than rejiggering institutions or party platforms in order to deliver someone’s more favored policy outcomes, contemporary politics makes a lot more sense.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 8d

What a fantastic syllabus! I’d love to take this course 😁

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Daniel McDowell @danielmcdowell.bsky.social · 9d

Ahead of tomorrow's @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social Transatlantic Forum, I argue that political forces, rather than economic fundamentals, will determine the future direction of the international currency system. Link below.

www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

How to dismantle a reserve currency

For the economic tumult that the dollar has faced over the last eighty years, its political foundations have remained steadfast—until now. As the political order on which the dollar system rests grows...

www.atlanticcouncil.org

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 9d

Here’s my approach to essays: you have to turn in something that does better than the AI. If it seems like AI could have done it, it’s just not adding value and is graded accordingly.

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 9d

🎯 you all are depressing me with your insistence on proving Ezra’s core thesis (the left has given up the politics of persuasion and coalition building) so tragically correct. Henry is spot on.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 10d

The reading of the Coates-Klein dialogue as a pantomime with villain to hiss rather than a manifestation of the fundamental tensions of politics is chef's-kiss-Bluesky.

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 10d

I would like to understand what winning coalition of the left people are imagining that does not include Coates and Klein simultaneously.

Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 14d

Nope. Deposits for resort-booked trips are refundable up to 30 days before travel.

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 15d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl9K...

The Replacements - Bastards Of Young (Video) [HD Remaster]

YouTube video by RHINO

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 16d

A reminder: the in-state public institution that you or your loved one is admitted to will most likely offer you a quality education at an affordable price.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16d

"Elite colleges have convinced us that scarcity equals quality, that a lower acceptance rate means a better education. But their own behavior shows that many of their decisions are more about manipulating the market than academic or any other kind of excellence." 🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

Opinion | The College Game Is Changing. It’s Still Rigged.

www.nytimes.com

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 15d

I think the finance side of the ledger in particular there has been excellent work in IPE. I think trade and investment is catching up. (Even though trade and finance were great on these issues in the 70s and 80s)

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 15d

Ah, should’ve realized this was an Econ rant and not a “Sarah, your stuff is shit” rant. 🤪 but, seriously, there’s great work on Geoecon that is also IPE. I think we agree! 🥳

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 15d

And maybe we’ll land on a better term for describing a return to managed/strategic trade and investment climates. But, that’s the kind of conceptual work that IPE should encourage rather than dismiss as old news!

Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 15d

Anyway, at least how I use and understand geoeconomics is as an object of inquiry rather than a discipline of study. We wouldn’t be gatekeepy and dismissive of scholars who describe their object of inquiry “globalization,” so why would we for scholars who study “geoeconomics?”

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 16d

Revitalizing questions and theoretical interventions that fell out of fashion in IPE during the period of globalization. It took a lot to get other scholars to renew their interest in these topics. And to be open to answers beyond “it’s all interest groups lobbying for protection”

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 16d

I don’t claim to “invent” a new field, but I do use the term geoeconomic statecraft to describe the types of behaviors and ideational commitments that animate my inquiry. Perhaps we are talking past each other. But, I do think that the scholars with which I engage on this topics are interested in ..

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 16d

I don’t really know what you are talking about here, because I would describe my scholarship at the intersection of national security and economic policy. I build on previous scholarship in this area. I cite. I talk about how the previous 30 yrs ignore important scholarship from before.

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 16d

Any question/argument that did not neatly fall into an OEP framework was ignore or deemed unimportant. I’m glad that mainstream IPE is starting to take these questions/ideas seriously, & there is some faddishness to the term now. But the reason for the term was to recenter ?s that IPE was ignoring.

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 16d

I’ll add that IPE as a field largely bracketed issues of security during the age of globalization and scholars like me had to position our work as something different bc IPE reviewers consistently assumed any economic barrier was the result of narrow interest group protection.

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 16d

The area of geoeconomics is to differentiate from what IPE had become, which was a study of the coalitions politics that fostered globalization, based on a shared ideational commitment to viewing intl economic exchange as primarily positive sum.

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 25d

Yes.

Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 25d

The Topeka School is a complex rumination on the admixture of debate culture and competing visions of masculinity. It addresses the ways in which seemingly liberal debate can often harm pluralism rather than exercise it. Plus, the prose is arresting. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Topeka School: A Novel

A Novel

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 25d

Given the messy online debate over whether Kirk’s style of verbal confrontation was fundamentally liberal (in the pluralist, free speech sense) and productive or trolling that undermines our collective capacity for reasoned & respectful debate over difficult ideas, I recommend reading Ben Lerner 1/

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman @sarahbauerled.bsky.social · 26d

Reminder that reporters don’t write their headlines.

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