Highly recommended for those studying the political economy of intellectual property and international trade. The counterfactual exercise on US-China trade relations is particularly worth exploring!

Joseph Nye, a Harvard professor whose ideas on the nature of power in international relations influenced generations of policymakers, academics, & students and made him one of the world’s most celebrated political thinkers, has died at the age of 88 ken.sc/3RQSGav

Ph.Done! Truly grateful to my colleagues and mentors at Princeton Politics and Niehaus Center for Globalization & Governance for their support throughout this journey. Looking forward to starting the next chapters at MIT Center for International Studies and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

📢 NEW DATA! Javier Flórez, Mario Larch, Sebastien Bradley, and I are very happy share the update of the most disaggregated dataset of consistently constructed international and domestic trade flows -- GRANTPA. So, let’s estimate GRAVITY with GRANTPA. ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

Glad this paper is finally out in American Political Science Review, five years after we began the project. Hope it proves useful to researchers. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Coming to Seoul for #IPSA2025? Check out this panel next Tuesday! We bring together scholars from around the world using South Korean datasets to explore various IPE topics, including trade, global value chain, diplomacy, and automation.

Excited to share that my article on the political economy of compulsory licensing is now available online at Public Choice! Grateful to the reviewers and editors for their thoughtful feedback.

How do countries mitigate the political costs of being accused of violating international law? In a new article in American Political Science Review, Tyler Pratt and I show that denying facts and challenging the applicability of law are effective strategies. IOs can counter-message though! (1 of 2)

How do states’ geopolitical alignments shape the design and functioning of IOs and economic interdependence? How do IOs respond? Join our #APSA2025 panel in Vancouver, where scholars present new data and insights on the geopolitics–IO nexus!

As the US steps back from leading in global governance institutions, China has increasingly stepped into leadership roles, serving as head of WHO, FAO, and other important UN agencies in recent years. In new (open access!) work with Rachel Ann Hulvey in PEIO/RIO, we ask: why? 1/5

Happy to share our article on transparency and the WTO Secretariat is now open access at PEIO/RIO! Many thanks to Minju Kim for the great collaboration. Also check out the other articles forthcoming in the SI on Public Opinion and IOs by Jonas Tallberg and Lisa Dellmuth.