Erik Voeten's new Annual Review piece tackles a key problem: how do we actually measure which countries align with whom geopolitically? The traditional UN voting approach misses so much - trade flows, security partnerships, diplomatic coordination. We need better tools for today's multipolar world.
See also @jeffcolgan.bsky.social on @goodauth.bsky.social goodauthority.org/news/is-oil-...
This is a good example of the argument @profmichaelross.bsky.social and I made in Foreign Affairs last year about how the US becoming the world's largest oil and gas producer facilitates the aggressive behavior of the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/c...
Conceptualizing and Measuring Geopolitical Alignments - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Guardian has a striking map suggesting Trump has pushed the world, especially Europe, toward China.
It’s visually compelling. But misleading. The world isn’t moving away from the U.S. The U.S. is moving away from the world. as I show on @goodauth.bsky.social. goodauthority.org/news/the-wor...
Today the @nytimes.com @patcohen.bsky.social flagged “neoroyalism,” a term coined by abenewman.bsky.social & Stacie Goddard.
On a recent Good Authority podcast, Goddard and @erikvoeten.bsky.social unpacked what this means for global order: goodauthority.org/news/the-new...
Check out the @goodauth.bsky.social podcast and the @iojournal.bsky.social article (short, open access) that forms the basis of the conversation refers to.
New @goodauth.bsky.social podcast with @fgenovese.bsky.social and @jeffcolgan.bsky.social on how the world moves on with climate motigation in the new Trump era goodauthority.org/news/can-cli...
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📣📣📣Announcing...Chalkboard Politics @chalkboardpolitics.bsky.social, a podcast by students, for students (and their teachers). Written, edited, and mixed by the students at @siwpscolumbia.bsky.social and distributed by @goodauth.bsky.social. 1/ www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Had to think of dr. Evil on how this plan was made: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJR1...
Transactional foreign policy par excellence: pay $1 billion and get a permanent seat on the Peace Board. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
And this article by @soyounglee.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social "The presence of capitalintensive resources-such as oil or minerals-raises concerns about how the benefits of acquiring the territory would be distributed within the nation." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Domestic Distributional Roots of National Interest SOYOUNG LEE Yale University, United States, and Duke University, United States What international issues become national interests worth fighting for, and why? Contrary to conventional wisdom, I argue that issues without clear economic value, such as barren lands, are more likely to be perceived as national interests because they do not benefit any single domestic group. Since who benefits is unclear, politicians have an easier time framing such issues as benefiting the whole nation. I test this argument using survey experiments on the American public. The results show that first, issues providing diffuse benefits to citizens are more likely to be considered national interests than issues providing concentrated benefits to certain domestic groups. Second, issues with clearer economic value are harder to frame as having diffuse benefits because they are more easily associated with specific beneficiaries. This study proposes a new theory of national interest and offers a potential explanation for why people frequently support conflict over issues without obvious benefits.
Apropos current events, I want to tout this paper by @soyounglee.bsky.social showing that discussion of economic benefits can reduce public support for military action. People are skeptical when they think specific groups (e.g., oil companies) will benefit.
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Six months ago @profmichaelross.bsky.social and I wrote in Foreign Affairs that the US is increasingly behaving like a petrostate. Seems relevant today
Who will win the AI race? 🎧
In our latest podcast, Georgetown’s @erikvoeten.bsky.social and George Washington’s @jeffreyding.bsky.social discuss how artificial intelligence may reshape global power.
Listen here: goodauthority.org/news/who-wil...
I had a fascinating conversation with @jeffreyding.bsky.social l about the future of AI and great power competition based on his award winning book for the @goodauth.bsky.social podcast goodauthority.org/news/who-wil...
New paper with @jonasheering.bsky.social on public opposition to data center construction. We find that the nationality of the operator is even more important than very substantial increases in electricity costs.
On November 19th, Professor @jeffreyding.bsky.social from The George Washington University received the prestigious Lepgold Book Prize at the Mortara Center. This award recognizes the best book in international relations published in 2024.
Photo credit: @georgetown-sfs.bsky.social
One point we make is that the media often reports on far right ties with Russia. There is good troubling evidence for that but we also document lots of examples of politicians from mainstream parties in the main EU countries that became, as the Germans call it, "Putinversteher."
Europeans worry that accommodating Putin repeats past errors. My latest on @goodauth.bsky.social with findings from a new article "Voting with Putin" with Jana Lipps in @cpsjournal.bsky.social where we document mainstream and cultural conservative support for Putin goodauthority.org/news/why-eur...
We are on the brink of a once in a generation transformation in world politics. @erikvoeten.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social and I talk neo-royalism as one future.
Give a list: goodauthority.org/news/the-new...
Check out the article it is based on here:
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The new neo-royalist world order. Stacie Goddard and
@abenewman.bsky.social explain how cliques are ruling the world. A new @goodauth.bsky.social podcast interview with yours truly based on the new @iojournal.bsky.social open access article that came out today!
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@erikvoeten.bsky.social has built his career on one goal: make ideas flow more freely.
In this week’s Etched in Marble, we talked about writing, editing, & how to carry arguments beyond academia without losing their complexity.
🪶 New post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...
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🧵New piece from me @goodauth.bsky.social on risks of striking Venezuela, focused on the added risk from Trump team of loyalists. Hint: it has to do with centralized role of Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, and the incompetence of advisers like SecDef Hegseth. 1/
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1/When @himself.bsky.social and I wrote about the future of US economic coercion we hoped that the tools could be used for global collective goods like climate. Now US “evaluating sanctions on officials sponsoring activist-driven climate policies”’
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As a Dutch friend, I agree with this and I don't think it means that votes will be "lost." It is up to the other parties to figure out how to attract those voters who really care about animal rights, pensions, Christianity and so on.
The Dutch election is more of a reshuffling than a major realignment of the electorate but fragmentation of the far right will still likely bring a centrist government coalition. My quick takeaways @goodauth.bsky.social goodauthority.org/news/three-t...
Three quick takeaways from the Dutch elections: @goodauth.bsky.social goodauthority.org/news/three-t...
