Delighted my new review article "International Energy Politics in an Age of Climate Change" with Miriam Hinthorn is Open Access (free to all) Annual Reviews. Cc Brown University Political Science @WatsonInstitute Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP) Brown Research annualreviews.org/eprint/AVHUMT8…

I don't think I've ever seen the Russian strategic community engage in such intense public debate over nuclear use as over the past 1 week. Here a summary of all contributions, for those who missed it: (Others, feel free to add pieces I left out to this thread!)

1/ The security forces in Moscow are reported to be utterly incapable of resisting a heavily armed force like Wagner. Police generals are said to considering which side to back, while forces on the ground are already defecting to Wagner. ⬇️

S Karaganov doubles down on the nuclear scare, after he got some pushback by serious scholars in Russia's strategic community (👇earlier thread): "There's no choice: Russia will have to launch a nuclear strike on Europe" ria.ru/20230625/yao-1… h/t Adam Lapszynski Summary👇(1/10)

The fossil fuel costs of the Ukraine war to Europe are over €1 trillion (!!), which dwarf the costs of “direct aid” to Ukraine during the war. A short🧵on our (me, Alexander Gard-Murray Miriam Hinthorn) article, the first peer-reviewed research, free to all: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S22…

Letting Europe’s Energy Crisis Go to Waste: The Ukraine War’s Massive Fossil Fuel Costs Fail to Accelerate Renewables — The report co-authored by Climate Solutions Lab Director Jeff Colgan builds on CSL’s research that estimated the cost of the energy crisis. ow.ly/ZWta50Prgah

My latest Foreign Affairs, with Miriam Hinthorn and Alexander Gard-Murray: Europe's energy crisis is a missed opportunity for accelerating the clean energy transition, esp wind. Bridging the Gap Climate Solutions Lab @WatsonInstitute Brown University Political Science Brown Research foreignaffairs.com/europe/colgan

Academics & Journalists: Take 3 minutes for a video of me & Miriam Hinthorn explaining how Europe's massive fossil fuel bills from Russia's invasion of Ukraine has mostly failed to accelerate the clean energy transition Climate Solutions Lab @WatsonInstitute youtu.be/jSicSCx2-YY

Putin is holding his annual televised Q&A today, and people have been invited to send questions via text, to be displayed on big screens behind him. Apparently, whoever is filtering them has let some uncomfortable ones slip through. 🧵Let’s see what questions the Russian

I struggle with the NATO enlargement debate for the following reasons. -- The prima facie case is "we ignored Russia at our peril; if we only took their concerns into account--i.e. did not enlarge NATO to the East--then things would have turned out better. Didn't they tell us,