Here's a fun thing Benjamin Braun and I are doing this summer. A "what you need to know about finance" workshop for PhDs and early career researchers. Details here: watson.brown.edu/rhodes/events/…

A fun thing indeed – couldn't be more excited to announce: Mark Blyth and I are organizing a 'Political economy of finance summer school'. June 17-21, in Providence: 2 days for PhD students, 3 for early-career scholars. With the finest instructors. Please share & apply!

The Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations is awarded to Claire Vergerio Political Science Leiden for "War, States, and International Order: Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War" (Cambridge 2022)! cambridge.org/core/books/war…

I wrote a piece for TIME on US-China deep-sea cable competition and the historical role of the ITU: time.com/6338911/us-chi…

Great post-doc opportunity for anyone studying the political economy of central banks The Robert Schuman Centre. Closing date *14 January 2024*. Details here: eui.eu/Documents/Serv… 1/3

Ouch. It’s a very powerful piece David David A. Bell. I will have to reflect on my choices. libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-a…

Graduate students doing historical IR - check this out! Should be an excellent event, followed by another full day of historical IR discussions at our Cambridge History & IR annual conference.

We’ve reached a tentative agreement!!!!! 🍾🥂Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who came out to support this week!! Stay tuned for details

Exciting talks on day 2 at the PE of finance summer school: Quentin Bruneau on hierarchy, Adam Goldstein (forgot to take a picture) on inequality, GregorSemieniuk.bsky.social on decarbonization, Lenore Palladino on financial data.

Thanks again to Benjamin Braun and Mark Blyth for putting together a great Political Economy of Finance Summer School at the Watson Institute - very fun and instructive week in Providence!

Looking for a position that has “answer big questions about the political economy of capitalism” in the job description? 🚨🚨 NEW: 2-year postdoc to work on asset managers and inequality with Mark Blyth and me. Physical base is Brown. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/147689

Why does no one speak of a Palestinian right of self-defence, but only of resistance? | Claire Vergerio and Quentin Bruneau explore the right to wage war, why it has been limited to sovereign states and how this impacts the current Israel-Palestine conflict. Tap here to read:

Badly needed primer on the rights of war and self-defense at stake in Palestine