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by Daniel Mertens — Reposted by: John Hogan

danmertens.bsky.social
Hi bsky people - if you care about how the EU seeks to fund all things "social-ecological transformation", which institutional architecture has emerged out of it, and why it is both contested and an unrealized promise: please have a look at our special issue on the politics of sustainable finance 👇
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 21d
🌱🪙 In their introduction to the Special Issue "Puzzling, powering, profiting: The politics of sustainable finance in Europe", editors
@danmertens.bsky.social and @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social define EU sustainable finance & outline how best to analyse it 💡

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reposted by: Daniel Mertens

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🌱🪙 In their introduction to the Special Issue "Puzzling, powering, profiting: The politics of sustainable finance in Europe", editors
@danmertens.bsky.social and @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social define EU sustainable finance & outline how best to analyse it 💡

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reposted by: Daniel Mertens, Bruno Amable, Daniela Gabor , and 1 more

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Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️

It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...

It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Short 🧵 ...
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by Daniel Mertens — Reposted by: Manuela Moschella

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Are you an Early Career Researcher in #IPE and would like to get feedback on a draft, a book proposal or on how the publishing process works? Then consider applying👇

w/ @johannespetry.bsky.social @silviaweko.bsky.social @florencedafe.bsky.social
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dvpw-ipe.bsky.social @dvpw-ipe.bsky.social · Jun 16
See below the CfP for the Early Career Researcher Workshop “Publishing International Political Economy,” to be held at @goetheuni.bsky.social on 4–5 December 2025! 🥳

The workshop aims to provide feedback on papers/book proposals & advice from journal/book editors in IPE 🙂

Deadline: 15 July 2025
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by Daniel Mertens — Reposted by: Manuela Moschella

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See below the CfP for the Early Career Researcher Workshop “Publishing International Political Economy,” to be held at @goetheuni.bsky.social on 4–5 December 2025! 🥳

The workshop aims to provide feedback on papers/book proposals & advice from journal/book editors in IPE 🙂

Deadline: 15 July 2025
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by Juliet Johnson — Reposted by: Daniel Mertens, Manuela Moschella

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Alison Johnston and I have a new open access article out arguing that pressure from domestic rather than foreign bondholders is most effective in forcing populist governments to rein in their economic policies. Our case studies are Italy and Hungary, but there are clear lessons for the USA.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Jun 12
#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -

Bent into Submission? Domestic Investors and Populist Governments - cup.org/4l2b2l5

- Alison L. Johnston & @excubs.bsky.social

#FirstView
Banner displaying "Perspectives on Politics" over an image of a dense, informal urban settlement with the hashtag #OpenAccess at the bottom.
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by Benjamin Braun — Reposted by: Daniel Mertens

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Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.
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by Daniel Mertens

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This could need some updating 😄
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Reposted by: Daniel Mertens, Christina Wolf

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*Call for Applications*

We’re excited to announce the Second Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy!

Link to the conference website: www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...

Please share widely!

@mpifg.bsky.social @palmapolyak.bsky.social
Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy
www.mpifg.de
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Reposted by: Daniel Mertens

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At #ISA2025 & diving into the politics of #climatechange & investment at an #IPE panel: from solar in the #GlobalSouth to green bonds, & #BridgetownInitiative. How will global finance adapt to a changing planet? #ClimateAction #SustainableFinance
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@mathiaslarsen.bsky.social
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by Daniel Mertens

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1. 'Rally around the flag' is not an automatism.
2. We apparently need more catastrophic droughts, wildfires, etc to have this conversation on 'green' spending
3. Does anyone count how often RRF money has already been 'repurposed'?
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Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · Mar 3
This is inane.

If you want EU money for joint defense projects, joint decision-making is part of the deal—there’s no way around it.

If you see that as a power grab, you’re fundamentally confused about the choices on the table. www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...
EU leaders fear Commission power grab on defense after Trump’s exit
Tensions around defense spending will take center stage during an emergency meeting of EU leaders on Thursday.
www.politico.eu
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Reposted by: Daniel Mertens

nilsredeker.bsky.social
This is inane.

If you want EU money for joint defense projects, joint decision-making is part of the deal—there’s no way around it.

If you see that as a power grab, you’re fundamentally confused about the choices on the table. www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...
EU leaders fear Commission power grab on defense after Trump’s exit
Tensions around defense spending will take center stage during an emergency meeting of EU leaders on Thursday.
www.politico.eu
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by Daniel Mertens

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Well played @financialtimes.com

by Fabián Muniesa — Reposted by: Daniel Mertens, Adam Leaver, Fabián Muniesa

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We are delighted to announce that our conference this year will take place at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, September 11-12. Keynotes speakers have been confirmed (Christian Borch, Fabian Muniesa, Vanessa Ogle) and the call for papers is now open! financeandsocietynetwork.org/finandsoc-co...
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Reposted by: Daniel Mertens

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Pleased to share that I will be joining @mpifg.bsky.social as Lise-Meitner-Research-Group Leader.

Truly excited to be leading a group on Technology and Sovereignty in this exceptional environment and to engage with its remarkable academic community.

PhD call out—pls share!

shorturl.at/0K7PW
Doctoral Positions Technology and Sovereignty Research Group
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by Daniel Mertens

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This week 50 years ago, German "Der Spiegel" covered on post-oil crisis recession (unemployment had doubled in 1974, annual real growth was zero). Headline Q was more than just business cycle policy: "Will the market economy remain?" Feels like a question now being asked for almost four full years.
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by Daniel Mertens

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We had a strong, but short-lived career on the twitter-thing: our IPE working group in the German Political Science Association is now on bsky. Get in touch, more information (in German) here: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a...
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Reposted by: Daniel Mertens

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🚨 JOB ALERT - Come work with me on #offshorefinance and #geopolitics!!

There's a #postdoc opening in my Freigeist Research Group at Freie Universität #Berlin. 100%, 2 years.

🗓 Deadline: 16.12.2024

Details: lnkd.in/ee5_MWpp

P.S. Sharing is caring 🎁

www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
PS-PostDoc-FreigeistFG-2024
www.fu-berlin.de
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by Daniel Mertens

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How can decarbonization governance endure under increasing geoeconomic distress? That is the question that @mbabic.bsky.social and I tackled in a recent paper in Regulation and Governance. Comments welcome. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero
How can decarbonization governance endure under increasing geoeconomic distress? Global tensions threaten to divert financial and political resources from the green transition toward national securit....
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Reposted by: Daniel Mertens

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🤔 Ever wondered what post-growth International Relations might look like? Jacob Hasselbalch & I try to get the conversation started in this introduction to an RIS Editors Forum with 8 papers in total (some out, others forthcoming). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Dealing with dangerous abundance: Towards post-growth International Relations | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Dealing with dangerous abundance: Towards post-growth International Relations
www.cambridge.org
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by Daniel Mertens

danmertens.bsky.social
Danke Lukas! (Und ja, da magst Du recht haben, aber ich glaube auch, dass wir eine Debatte darüber brauchen, ob die derzeit dominante modellorientierte Besetzung von "HPE" sachdienlich ist bzw. dem Begriff gerecht wird. Vielleicht beim DVPW-Kongress?)
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by Daniel Mertens

danmertens.bsky.social
We have a new textbook on political economy out that seeks to wed CPE and IPE. It has some digital goodies for students and instructors, and I hope it's also useful for discussing the continuous transformation of (global) economic orders in the classroom. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Images of the books on political economy by May et al.
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by Daniel Mertens

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Job alert w/ my colleague Andrea Lenschow in Osnabrück: Doctoral Researcher in the field of Sustainability Policy and Governance of Global Value Chains #EuropeanStudies #IPE #GVC www.uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet...
195 FB 1 Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d) - Universität Osnabrück
www.uni-osnabrueck.de

by Daniel Mertens

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...we discussed specific capabilities, legitimacy, geoeoconomic competition, within-state fractions, finance ministries, state banks, planning, international hierarchies, and more to make sense of the current moment. Would be great to hear who else has current projects on this!?
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by Daniel Mertens

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Leaving Copenhagen / Copenhagen Business School after having attended this inspiring workshop on "Green state capacity and state-led green transition", organized by @mbabic.bsky.social. Instead of being either fatalist or naive about what 'states' can do in the climate crisis, ...
Workshop program
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by Daniel Mertens

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Spreading the word about a new job opening at UvA: TT in Political Science w/ specialization in the #PoliticalEconomy of #Finance. See:
Assistant Professor in Political Science - Specialization in Political Economy of Finance
Assistant Professor in Political Science - Specialization in Political Economy of Finance
vacatures.uva.nl
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