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State capitalist impulses: the rise, fall, and rise again of sovereign wealth funds in Ireland tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Thanks Dariusz Wojcik Karen P. Y. Lai for publishing. Paper benefited immensly from work with Ilias Alami @mbabic_1 Imogen Liu Jamie Peck

I confess a good amount of petty satisfaction writing this: "this is a case of ‘fad investing’ and uncritical adoption of VC's ideologies of market-disruptive innovation. (which is consistent with French President Macron's ludicrous sloganeering ‘France as the start-up nation’)"

🚀 We have liftoff! My article on the ambiguous role of SpaceX 's Starlink in Ukraine is finally out with EJIR (European Journal of International Relations) ! 🌐It's open access: doi.org/10.1177/135406… Discusses the impact of large tech firms and their infrastructure on geopolitics, and how 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇪🇺 deal with this.

Looking back at a great Politicologenetmaal 🇳🇱🇧🇪 last week, we'd like to congratulate the 4 winners of our two main awards (NKWP): 🏆🏆 dr. Imogen T. Liu Imogen Liu (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief)) & dr. Emma Turkenburg Emma Turkenburg (Strategic Communication, Wageningen University), the winners of the Els Witte prize for best PhD! and...

Very excited to share my first academic article, written with Nick Jepson, on Chinese #StateCapital as a Partner for Resource-Based #StructuralTransformation? #BRI and Downstream Linkages in Bolivia and #Kazakhstan. It's open access! Digisilk link.springer.com/article/10.105…

👨‍💻Excited for SASE this week! If you're into industrial policy (who isn't?!) Timur Ergen Fabio Bulfone and I organized 2 awesome panels for you to check out Sat. w/Imogen Liu Elsa Clara Massoc Lorenzo Mascioli and twitter-less Guendalina Anzolin, Seth Pipkin & Alberto Fuentes

The Spectre of State Capitalism is out and open access! Download your beach read for free!

💥NEW ARTICLE: "A Chip War Made in Germany?", from Julian Germann, Sean Kenji (賢司) STARRS 💫🇺🇳🚲🥥🥃🦄🌏🇺🇳, Joseph Baines and myself explore why German firms are resisting joining the US tech trade war with China over semiconductor chips. cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgov… [1/7]

This article in International Affairs- coauthored with Trissia Wijaya Rits - an argument that class and social relations - rather than geopolitical fetishism need to be at the core of the analysis of the crisis of the international order. academic.oup.com/ia/advance-art…

I want to share what happened in more detail as some strange things have been happening in Serbia after Scholz's visit - that wreak of neocolonialism. Firstly, after his visit there have been massive national protests in every major city, and especially in the villages. (1/28)

my paper on the curious internationalisation of the RMB coauthored with prof David Howarth uni.lu is now out on The World Economy Wiley may be of interest to Second Cold War Observatory Sabine Dörry Nana de Graaff onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tw… short thread 👇

See our new article on the evolving state capitalism-neoliberalism nexus!

New publication alert. Isn't it time to start delving into AUKUS Pillar II and see how the emerging business group and state forms reshape the trajectory of Pillar II?Using the lens of militarised neoliberalism,we discuss these dynamics in Australian Journal of International Affairs. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🌟 2024 FinGeo Dissertation Prize Winner! 🌟 Congrats to Imogen Liu for her dissertation: 📘 "Investing for the State: Chinese State Capital in Europe" A remarkable study on Chinese capital abroad. Well-deserved! 🎉 #FinGeo #AcademicExcellence FinGeo Network

This study in nature addresses an important issue but erases the discrimination experienced by Asians in academia by lumping them in with white academics. And in this way, it elegantly pulls a racism while pointing out racism (1/7) nature.com/articles/s4156…

New (OA) article in Dialogues in Human Geography! It looks at how and why states increasingly use foreign investment screening mechanisms to block foreign investment targeting sectors considered critical. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Cambridge Centre of Development Studies Politics and International Studies Cambridge 🧵 below:

New short article out in Dialogues in Human Geography! I offer a historical sketch and a conceptual framework tracing the formation of legal regimes of investment control in the dialectics of empire and capital. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… Politics and International Studies Cambridge Cambridge Centre of Development Studies (1/3)