A short blog summary of my recent article in ROAPE journal, which might be of interest to people working on and thinking through green colonialism and imperialism on the continent & beyond

Greening the global economy, undermining prosperity in the Congo

roape.net/2024/04/16/gre…

Intéressé par le PIF saoudien et ce qui motive ses investissements? Voici mon texte dans ⁦La Presse⁩ ⁦CÉRIUM⁩ lp.ca/2tu15Q?sharing…

Truly excellent talk by Maya Wind on her new book about how ALL (yes, ALL) Israeli universities are deeply and structurally complicit in Israel's settler colonial project.

Buy the book and support PACBI and BDS!

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A bit of a writing, with Gojira in the background 🎶

This Trinity term (Tuesdays April 30-June 4) an urgent series of talks on Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace Pembroke College co-sponsored with Oxford Politics and IR UKFulbrightAwards. With Dr Jenny Mathers @jgmaber.bsky.social Shirin Rai Nivi Manchanda Elena B. Stavrevska Vjosa Musliu Jacqui True Register 👇

Alright I really enjoyed that

LUHNIP's March 2024 Brief on Italian #PoliticalEconomy is out, featuring:
- Silicon Box's €3.2 billion investment in semiconductor industry
- Italy's approach to AI
- Women's condition in the Italian labor market
👉🏻Download: bit.ly/4b3s9hL
#ChipsAct #AI #LaborMarket

Brilliant analysis

This is big: A new article in nature shows that already at current emissions, 'the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices.'

This is a GDP loss of almost one fifth.
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Bloody hell...

Excellente chronique

Current and former Google employees held sit-ins this week at company offices to protest the tech giant's work with the Israeli military, part of the No Tech For Apartheid campaign.

We speak with three workers speaking out against Big Tech's 'complicity with the Israeli occupation.'

I can think of two😂:

1) 'Irrelevant.'

2) 'The language of class and crisis in this book will alienate the North American market.'

Este mes para la Revista Sentido Común escribí sobre la importancia de reconocer la influencia negativa que imprimen desde Estados Unidos sobre el sector energía, para poder aprovechar nuevos vientos de cooperación técnica en el futuro.
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Want to find our more?

Read our paper on The Effect of #Climate Change on Sovereign Creditworthiness with Matthew Agarwala (@BennettInst), Matt Burke (@UniofOxford), Pati Klusak (@uniofeastanglia) and Moritz Kraemer (@LBBW_AM): pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mn…

And our paper on…

Some of my comments here in 'BlackRock’s Aggressive Hunt for Growth in Saudi Arabia' but the larger story is about new global trade and investment configurations and how the Gulf sits squarely at the intersection, and why global investors are eager to partner. 🧵…

Une économie de guerre 'qui produit de la richesse', nous dit Macron.
lemonde.fr/politique/arti…

China reforms its unloved state-owned enterprises to win back investors - on.ft.com/3xFaChm via Financial Times

Is that time of the year when flowers bloom 🌻, sun shines 🌞, and global economic outlooks get published 📈. UN Trade and Development TDR update is out and here are some highlights from the debt section 🧵unctad.org/publication/tr…

Revoke Professor Jodi Dean's suspension from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges - Sign the Petition! chng.it/j9tqWKfR via Change.org UK