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Federica Genovese
@fgenovese.bsky.social
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Political scientist at University of Oxford • Leverhulme Trust awardee • cross-national policy, political economy, politics of climate and crises • mom of 2 • she/her

https://www.federica-genovese.com/

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1h
The short run was pretty bleak too 😢

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fgenovese.bsky.social Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jun 3
🚨 WP w/ @acalacino.bsky.social & @hayleypring.bsky.social

It’s been a turbulent decade of globalization backlash. Populist projects wanna take back control everywhere.

Focusing on the case of oil and Brexit, we offer a story of the danger of this narrative and concrete merits of multilateralism: 🧵
Abstract of "Offshore Outlaws: Brexit and Oil Spills in the North Sea" by Anthony Calacino, Federica Genovese, Hayley Pring (University of Oxford)

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 9h
most bad things would expire at some point — or at least the irresponsible lending together with rising household debt and ineffective regulation of the 2008-09 years eventually expired and the country could make a turn.

Brexit, instead, unexpirable (sigh)

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 10h
I often think about this paper of yours!

Reposted by Federica Genovese

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 10h
Indeed! Let me add that Brexit has led to levelling up by levelling down and this has -- if anything -- benefitted right-wing populists.
brexitcost.org/brexitcost.pdf

Reposted by Silvia Secchi, Stephen D. Murphy

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 10h
During the Great Recession (2008-09) UK GDP fell by 6%. Thankfully, it mostly recovered after 5 years.

Since Brexit referendum (2016) UK GDP has fallen between 6% and 8%. Unclear whether and when it will fully recover.

www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 11h
Me and @antvalentim.bsky.social today: 🤩

Us next week: 💀

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 23h
yes. World leadership models come in many different flavours (some genuine leaderships do not work for many/the most/the world). Democratic countries should learn to distinguish which models work best for them without replicating blindly what they see around

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fgenovese.bsky.social Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 19d
It angers me that Europe was capable of very quickly replicating the Chinese lockdown and far from learning anything from the Chinese energy transition.

Crises come in different flavors; you should learn from them holistically.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d
the Chinese have unlocked incredible frontiers for the climate mitigation supply side of things (EVs, PVs), but they have also the most cynical “fashion” retailers, and now France wants to explore how to regulate them.

www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/....
Shein: France considers new tax on small packages as latest weapon against Chinese online retailers
The French government plans to introduce a €2 levy on every item arriving from a non-European country, with lawmakers set to debate the proposal from November 12. France would be the first country to ...
www.lemonde.fr

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d
my best work on weekend mornings

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d
homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...

Reposted by Holger Hestermeyer, Ann Bartow, Federica Genovese , and 2 more

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 2d
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
“Whether he will succeed is hotly debated. The specter of a flight of the wealthy is just a right-wing blah-blah. The danger, I fear, lies elsewhere. One is that Trump will do everything possible to hurt NYC. The second is that Mamdani will fumble facing some unexpected crisis. But if he succeeds?”

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
exquisite takes, as usual

Reposted by Federica Genovese

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Adam Przeworski @adamprz.bsky.social · 2d
Musings 3: on municipal socialism, on worldwide surveys on democracy. adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/musings-3
Musings 3
Municipal Socialism
adamprzeworski.substack.com

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
(for the record, I am too concerned with some versions of cheerleading I am seeing around China’s energy politics and worried about how people are connecting this to climate policy leadership)

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
so much subtext! 🔥😅

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Federica Genovese, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d
The righteous spirits of Kwame Nkrumah, Harriet Tubman, and Toussaint L'Ouverture surged through me as I sheepishly explained to the Italian border control bag search agents that it's a comb, for my hair <gestures hairwards>
My pick.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
ibid.

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Kampf gegen die Erderhitzung: Danke, China!
Die Volksrepublik lässt den Kampf gegen Erderhitzung gewinnbarer erscheinen als je zuvor. Das versetzt fossile Staaten und Unternehmen in Panik.
taz.de

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 3d
… because Trump does not even believe his own narrative that the US needs no one else but itself in the world.

That said, it will be an interesting test to see if the world believes they can have a serious convo without the US in the room.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 3d
they certainly will…

Reposted by Fabrizio Coticchia

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 3d
In case this got lost, reminder that at COP30 the United States is not sending any high level representatives, and apparently no technical staff either, for the first time in 30 years.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 3d
It is still the land that birthed Salvini.

Reposted by Robert B. Reich, Federica Genovese

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 4d
If Musk meets all the benchmarks of his new $1 trillion pay package from Tesla he will be paid $274 MILLION EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS

This is his part-time job

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d
Sure, in my mind that is what the “~minimal” stands for. yes you will have the potential for some cultural war, but it is far from being as stupid as in the US

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d
flash memory of this guy (back then junior prof, now full prof in Europe) having coffee with my partner one day and pretty much going through each of the claims in this thread.

Fun and possibly good news: to this day, my partner is still more jarred by that convo than I was when he told me abt it.
paulisci.bsky.social Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d
This ofc does not mean BYD is going to produce cars anytime soon in Italy (these pieces will go to the factories in Hungary), but it means further meaningful penetration in Europe.

Btw in the Italian EV market, BYD right now has a market share of roughly 10%, up 4-5 percentage points from 2024…

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d
You’ve got to really give it to the Chinese:

their negotiators in Italy have been a former senior executive at Fiat (now BYD's European advisor) and a former Stellantis executive (who is now responsible for BYD in Italy).

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d
Italians have an emotional relationship with manufacturing and 💯 want to see the ex Stellantis labour and providers at work.

Energy cultural wars are also ~minimal; Italy loves automobiles but there‘s nothing emotional re ICE vs EV. EV = fashion.

This is all to say: easy ground for BYD to enter.

Reposted by Jonathan Hopkin

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d
BYD, not fully invested in 🇪🇺, turns to Italy and is ready to ingest local component producers that used to supply ex-Fiat/Stellantis. 85 specialized firms in Turin alone have already signed contracts with BYD.

Clearly a transition that could have been home-made is happening via Chinese leadership.
BYD ha puntato le aziende mollate da Stellantis - Il Post
La società cinese ne ha trovate 85 nella zona di Torino disposte a fornire componenti per le sue auto elettriche
www.ilpost.it

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Rebecca Solnit, Brendan Nyhan , and 20 more

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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