You can access my paper here www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
Alternatively, the pre-publication version is available on my website: www.robertfalkner.org
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You can access my paper here www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
Alternatively, the pre-publication version is available on my website: www.robertfalkner.org
We'll be launching the book at a LSE Department of International Relations event in late October 2026 - watch out for future announcements.
It was fun "thinking with and beyond" Barry in this paper, having written with him over the last few years on the normative evolution of international society, the rise of environmental stewardship and the vicissitudes of the market norm in international relations.
Expertly edited by @ritafloyd.bsky.social and Laust Schouenborg, the volume brings together a stellar group of IR scholars who engage with Barry Buzan's Big Picture theorising and his many contributions to the development of International Relations theory.
New publication! 📚
My new paper "World Society: From Analytical Dustbin to
Master Concept of International Relations?” has been published in "The Big Picture as an Approach to the Study of International Relations Thinking With and Beyond Barry Buzan", published by @universitypress.cambridge.org
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the journal Global Environmental Politics with a special issue. All articles are free to read for the first 60 days @gepjournal.bsky.social
direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...
There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.
The anti-Net Zero campaign reaches new heights of disinformation.
This from the latest edition of Private Eye deserves wider circulation…
This was a brilliant talk by @ndubash.bsky.social - I will be thinking a lot about his conclusions on the implications to re-orienting climate policy around self-determination.
Thanks to @robertfalkner.bsky.social for organizing, @gsos-lse.bsky.social for hosting! Podcast recording will be up soon.
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📢 Don’t miss our upcoming event with @gsos-lse.bsky.social, “Decentering emissions: how the developing world can shape the #climatechange agenda,” featuring @ndubash.bsky.social, @robertfalkner.bsky.social, and @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social.
🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
#AcademicSky #PoliSky
Come and join us on Wed 21 Jan, 18:30, at LSE for a public lecture by Prof Navroz Dubash (Princeton) on
"Decentering Emissions: How the developing world can shape the climate change agenda."
With a response from our discussant @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
New in @gepjournal.bsky.social: "Historicizing Global Environmental Politics."
The article is part of the journal's 25th anniversary special issue, which is forthcoming later this year.
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
@lseir.bsky.social
New in @gepjournal.bsky.social: "Historicizing Global Environmental Politics."
The article is part of the journal's 25th anniversary special issue, which is forthcoming later this year.
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
@lseir.bsky.social
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
As the winter solstice approaches, here is a watercolour painting by Mehr Khan to brighten our dark days.
On Wednesday evening we're hosting @jelenasubotic.bsky.social at @lseir.bsky.social to talk about her fantastic new book 'The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution'. It's free to attend, but registration is necessary. Please come along! Details below...
GEP's Special Issue on "The North–South Politics of Global Just Transitions" is now out, guest edited by Chuks Okereke, Ken Mbeva, Reuben Makomere. Several articles are available open access, including the introduction. Check them out at the link below!
direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...
LSE is hiring an Assistant Professor (Education track) in International Political Economy:
Primary responsibility is education; we are looking for a track record in teaching, student mentoring, and pastoral care.
Annual salary: £68,087+
Deadline: 30 November 2025.
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Private Eye…
Terrifying 😨
So what's the main target of Helm's polemic? Of course, Secretary of State Ed Miliband who made net zero "such a divisive political chasm." No mention of the politicians and newspapers (incl the Times) on the right who have systematically undermined the UK's climate consensus.
His advocacy of the "polluter pays principle" is part of the standard economist's response. And it's correct. But if we took this seriously (we never did), you can't at the same time complain about the costs of the green energy transition and call for help for the biggest industrial polluters.
Interestingly, Helm does not dismiss net zero altogether (though he feeds the conservative attack on the UK's net zero policy). In fact, he wants an even stronger net zero target that includes carbon imports, which would make UK climate policy even more onerous.
What of the alternative that Helm suggests, "a bottom-up coalition of unilateralist countries on carbon targets"? Germany tried this in the G7 in 2023, but when the US rejects climate science and China and Russia continue to push fossil fuels, there are few large emitters to make such a club work.
For one, a "top-down legally binding treaty" is not on the agenda at #COP30 in Brazil. This idea died back in 2009, at the Copenhagen COP. In many ways, the 2015 Paris Agreement offers all the benefits that Helm seems to want out of "bottom-up" climate action. Why rehash these decades-old debates?
We've heard it all before - the #COP process is not working, we don't need a "top-down legally binding treaty", better to work "bottom-up" with a few unilateralist countries, UK climate leadership is pointless - but he offers few if any viable alternatives.
Dieter Helm's big essay in The Times ("The COPs have failed" 8 Nov) prompted me to write a letter to the editor, to correct the muddle that Helm gets into on international climate policy and the #COP process.
Below is my response.
www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...
Hard to believe these days, but there was once a time when the US government led the debate on how to combat climate change and improve environmental quality.
Job alert!
The LSE's International Relations dept is hiring an Assistant Professor (Education) in International Political Economy. This is for academics whose primary responsibility is education. Apply by 30 Nov 2025.
Salary min. £68,087 pa incl London allowance.
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...