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Erik Voeten
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Georgetown prof. Expect content on international politics, climate, soccer, and other random stuff. Views my own. Website: https://erikvoeten.georgetown.domains/

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Erik Voeten is a Dutch political scientist.

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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 5d
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...
The new neo-royalist world order
Stacie Goddard and Abe Newman explain how cliques are ruling the world.
goodauthority.org

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · 17d
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.
fgenovese.bsky.social Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 18d
Good chatting with @erikvoeten.bsky.social about Jeff’s and my article on what Trump and the movement he represents will do to climate politics going forward.

Come for the excellent questions, stay for me and Jeff trying to summarize and discuss what feels like 15 yrs of events since 2025.

Paper:

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 18d
Good chatting with @erikvoeten.bsky.social about Jeff’s and my article on what Trump and the movement he represents will do to climate politics going forward.

Come for the excellent questions, stay for me and Jeff trying to summarize and discuss what feels like 15 yrs of events since 2025.

Paper:

Reposted by Federica Genovese

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · 18d
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...
Can climate policies survive the return of Trump? 🎧
Can climate policies survive the return of Trump? Two experts discuss how the U.S. and the world move forward with climate mitigation.
goodauthority.org

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 20d
📣📣📣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/...
Chalkboard politics logo, a chalkboard with the podcast name and affiliations

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · 22d
Had to think of dr. Evil on how this plan was made: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJR1...
One Million Dollars - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (2/5) Movie CLIP (1997) HD
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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · 22d
Transactional foreign policy par excellence: pay $1 billion and get a permanent seat on the Peace Board. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Wants Nations to Pay $1 Billion to Stay on Peace Board
The Trump administration is asking countries that want a permanent spot on his new Board of Peace to contribute at least $1 billion.
www.bloomberg.com

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Jan 5
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...

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Erik Voeten, Soyoung Lee

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · Jan 5
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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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.

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Jan 5
Six months ago @profmichaelross.bsky.social and I wrote in Foreign Affairs that the US is increasingly behaving like a petrostate. Seems relevant today
erikvoeten.bsky.social Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Jun 12
I have a new short piece in Foreign Affairs with @profmichaelross.bsky.social arguing that "the United States’ emergence as the world’s leading oil and gas producer is a critical and often neglected element of today’s global disorder." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Petrostate America
The downsides of energy independence.
www.foreignaffairs.com

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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · Dec 22
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...
Who will win the AI race? 🎧
Jeffrey Ding argues it’s less about innovation than implementation.
goodauthority.org

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Dec 19
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...
Who will win the AI race? 🎧
Jeffrey Ding argues it’s less about innovation than implementation.
goodauthority.org

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Dec 3
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.
jonasheering.bsky.social Jonas Heering @jonasheering.bsky.social · Dec 3
New working paper w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social on the hottest topic in town: data centers!

We show how concerns about #digitalsovereignty, decarbonization, electricity costs & local environmental impacts shape public support for data center construction in #Germany.

osf.io/preprints/so...

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Jonas Heering @jonasheering.bsky.social · Dec 3
New working paper w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social on the hottest topic in town: data centers!

We show how concerns about #digitalsovereignty, decarbonization, electricity costs & local environmental impacts shape public support for data center construction in #Germany.

osf.io/preprints/so...

🧵 ⬇️
OSF
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Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Erik Voeten, Matthew S. Erie

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Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University @mortaracenter.bsky.social · Nov 26
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

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Nov 26
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."

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Nov 26
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...
Why Europeans are worried about appeasing Putin, again
Both mainstream European politicians and cultural conservatives have frequently voted to accommodate Putin.
goodauthority.org

Reposted by Erik Voeten, Paul E. Smaldino, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · Nov 21
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:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Reposted by Henry Farrell

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Nov 20
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!

goodauthority.org/news/the-new...
The new neo-royalist world order
Stacie Goddard and Abe Newman explain how cliques are ruling the world.
goodauthority.org

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Nov 20
@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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Etched in Marble: Erik Voeten on Time, Clarity, and Moving Ideas Beyond Academia
Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · Nov 3
🧵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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Trump may strike Venezuela. His team makes that very risky.
Take a close look at who is advising the president on U.S. policy.
goodauthority.org

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · Nov 3
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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US accused of ‘bully-boy’ tactics to sink climate deal
Officials say ‘threats’ used to derail net zero deal for shipping industry ripped up rules of global diplomacy
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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Oct 31
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.
simonhix.bsky.social Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Oct 31
I have just written a Substack piece with some scenarios of what would have happened in the recent Dutch election if there had been 4% electoral threshold (with apologies to my Dutch friends for banging on about this!) substack.com/home/post/p-...
What Would happen if The Netherlands had a 4% Electoral Threshold?
Political scientists of electoral systems love The Netherlands.
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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Oct 31
I have just written a Substack piece with some scenarios of what would have happened in the recent Dutch election if there had been 4% electoral threshold (with apologies to my Dutch friends for banging on about this!) substack.com/home/post/p-...
What Would happen if The Netherlands had a 4% Electoral Threshold?
Political scientists of electoral systems love The Netherlands.
substack.com

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Oct 31
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...

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Oct 30
Three quick takeaways from the Dutch elections: @goodauth.bsky.social goodauthority.org/news/three-t...
Three takeaways from the too-close-to-call Dutch election
A young charismatic liberal leader may well become the next Dutch prime minister.
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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Oct 24
Read Anjali Dayal on the UN and also listen to her podcast To Save Us from Hell open.spotify.com/show/2WBQHl2...

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · Oct 24
New out in @apsrjournal.bsky.social. We show how the AfD in Germant was able to use opposition to the green transition to attract voters in highly polluting occupations and communities that rely on those occupations.