Julian Germann
@juliangermann.bsky.social
political economist working on new cold war high tech and resource competition and green and defence industrial policy 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇨🇳🌐
co-founder of mappingdeglobalization.net
senior lecturer in international relations, university of sussex
co-founder of mappingdeglobalization.net
senior lecturer in international relations, university of sussex
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new book out next week:
System Crisis: Legitimation in Green Capitalism
www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp...
System Crisis: Legitimation in Green Capitalism
www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp...
Systemkrise. Buch von Philipp Staab (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Scheitert die grüne Transformation? | Buch von Philipp Staab versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen
www.suhrkamp.de
September 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
new book out next week:
System Crisis: Legitimation in Green Capitalism
www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp...
System Crisis: Legitimation in Green Capitalism
www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp...
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2️⃣ years. 3️⃣5️⃣0️⃣investigations. 9️⃣0️⃣countries.
We are so delighted to see the number of people using The Counter, SOMO’s free global helpdesk for environmental and social justice activists 🤩
This dream wouldn’t be possible without the support of Dutch Postcode Loterij 🎊
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We are so delighted to see the number of people using The Counter, SOMO’s free global helpdesk for environmental and social justice activists 🤩
This dream wouldn’t be possible without the support of Dutch Postcode Loterij 🎊
Want to submit a request? ⬇️
The Counter - Helpdesk for activists challenging corporate power - SOMO
The Counter helps activists hold multinational companies and their owners accountable for their destructive and unfair business practices.
www.somo.nl
September 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
2️⃣ years. 3️⃣5️⃣0️⃣investigations. 9️⃣0️⃣countries.
We are so delighted to see the number of people using The Counter, SOMO’s free global helpdesk for environmental and social justice activists 🤩
This dream wouldn’t be possible without the support of Dutch Postcode Loterij 🎊
Want to submit a request? ⬇️
We are so delighted to see the number of people using The Counter, SOMO’s free global helpdesk for environmental and social justice activists 🤩
This dream wouldn’t be possible without the support of Dutch Postcode Loterij 🎊
Want to submit a request? ⬇️
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I wrote a short, open-access account of how the High Court ended up accepting the UK govt's argument that protecting "international peace and security" means arming genocide in Palestine: please read and share - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
When ‘Peace and Security’ Means Arming Genocide
On 30 June 2025, the High Court refused a judicial review of UK arms export policy towards Israel. This article examines the government's claims in the case and the judges’ ruling, arguing that the l...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I wrote a short, open-access account of how the High Court ended up accepting the UK govt's argument that protecting "international peace and security" means arming genocide in Palestine: please read and share - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Our publication on the anatomy of Chinese capitalism is finally out! It is based on a large data set on China’s top 500 companies. The article is part of @philippkoencke.bsky.social PhD. Follow him for more information on his great work!
🚨 New publication out: “The Anatomy of Chinese Capitalism” (Competition & Change / Köncke, Erlbacher & Schmalz, 2025)
How and to what extent does the party-state govern top Chinese firms?
We unpack this with new data and a sectoral lens.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...
@sfb294.bsky.social
How and to what extent does the party-state govern top Chinese firms?
We unpack this with new data and a sectoral lens.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...
@sfb294.bsky.social
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doi.org
July 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Our publication on the anatomy of Chinese capitalism is finally out! It is based on a large data set on China’s top 500 companies. The article is part of @philippkoencke.bsky.social PhD. Follow him for more information on his great work!
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The leak of an internal EU paper from 2024 spelling out Israel's "war crimes" in Gaza will make it harder to claim Tel Aviv merits keeping free trade perks.
Leak of EU's full 2024 Gaza report piles pressure on Israel
The leak of an internal EU paper from 2024 spelling out Israel's "war crimes" in Gaza will make it harder to claim Tel Aviv merits keeping free trade perks.
euobserver.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The leak of an internal EU paper from 2024 spelling out Israel's "war crimes" in Gaza will make it harder to claim Tel Aviv merits keeping free trade perks.
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'I just don't buy it.'
Professor Anna Stavrianakis of @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social criticizes the UK government's position that it can't track parts for its F-35 programme with Israel.
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Professor Anna Stavrianakis of @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social criticizes the UK government's position that it can't track parts for its F-35 programme with Israel.
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May 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
'I just don't buy it.'
Professor Anna Stavrianakis of @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social criticizes the UK government's position that it can't track parts for its F-35 programme with Israel.
Sign up to our Currents newsletter for more from this week's hearing 👉 a.nin.tl/3x
Professor Anna Stavrianakis of @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social criticizes the UK government's position that it can't track parts for its F-35 programme with Israel.
Sign up to our Currents newsletter for more from this week's hearing 👉 a.nin.tl/3x
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📢 New publication by CAIT member Faiz Sheikh and @drowendthomas.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social on "Dynastic International Relations: understanding race and the crisis of liberal order through Ibn Khaldun"
For the open access copy follow this link:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
For the open access copy follow this link:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Dynastic International Relations: understanding race and the crisis of liberal order through Ibn Khaldun - Faiz Sheikh, Owen David Thomas, 2025
This paper offers insights into the Crisis of Liberal International Order by combining Ibn Khaldun’s theory of change with scholarship on liberalism and race. W...
journals.sagepub.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
📢 New publication by CAIT member Faiz Sheikh and @drowendthomas.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social on "Dynastic International Relations: understanding race and the crisis of liberal order through Ibn Khaldun"
For the open access copy follow this link:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
For the open access copy follow this link:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Just launched The Dirigiste, a Substack on EU industrial policy.
The first post looks at Hungary’s lithium battery boom— as a case of industrial derisking backfiring in a semi-peripheral state. Orbán’s strategy is unraveling.
👉 thedirigiste.substack.com/p/orban-unpl...
The first post looks at Hungary’s lithium battery boom— as a case of industrial derisking backfiring in a semi-peripheral state. Orbán’s strategy is unraveling.
👉 thedirigiste.substack.com/p/orban-unpl...
May 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Just launched The Dirigiste, a Substack on EU industrial policy.
The first post looks at Hungary’s lithium battery boom— as a case of industrial derisking backfiring in a semi-peripheral state. Orbán’s strategy is unraveling.
👉 thedirigiste.substack.com/p/orban-unpl...
The first post looks at Hungary’s lithium battery boom— as a case of industrial derisking backfiring in a semi-peripheral state. Orbán’s strategy is unraveling.
👉 thedirigiste.substack.com/p/orban-unpl...
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Along with dear friends Lily Lynch and Nic Johnson I was asked to comment on Trump's first hundred days.
In a nutshell: it's all too early to tell, but while he might bury American hegemony, globalism will outlive him.
jacobin.com/2025/04/trum...
In a nutshell: it's all too early to tell, but while he might bury American hegemony, globalism will outlive him.
jacobin.com/2025/04/trum...
April 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Along with dear friends Lily Lynch and Nic Johnson I was asked to comment on Trump's first hundred days.
In a nutshell: it's all too early to tell, but while he might bury American hegemony, globalism will outlive him.
jacobin.com/2025/04/trum...
In a nutshell: it's all too early to tell, but while he might bury American hegemony, globalism will outlive him.
jacobin.com/2025/04/trum...
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Die #Armut wächst, #Ungleichheit nimmt zu, die Armen werden ärmer. Unser neuer #Armutsbericht @paritaet.bsky.social zeigt: So darf es nicht weitergehen! Wir müssen & können #ArmutAbschaffen !Hier geht’s zum Bericht: t1p.de/a76z3
April 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Die #Armut wächst, #Ungleichheit nimmt zu, die Armen werden ärmer. Unser neuer #Armutsbericht @paritaet.bsky.social zeigt: So darf es nicht weitergehen! Wir müssen & können #ArmutAbschaffen !Hier geht’s zum Bericht: t1p.de/a76z3
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📣 New FinVis 'The Global City Network of Firms' from Yue Wang, Thomas Sigler & Julia Loginova: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
📣 New FinVis 'The Global City Network of Firms' from Yue Wang, Thomas Sigler & Julia Loginova: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Are we preventing abuse or just certifying it? 👀
Audits and certifications often hide, not stop, corporate abuse. Companies use them as smokescreens to continue business as usual.
🚩 Concerningly, the EU & others are embedding these flawed systems into law.
Read more! www.somo.nl/the-illusion...
Audits and certifications often hide, not stop, corporate abuse. Companies use them as smokescreens to continue business as usual.
🚩 Concerningly, the EU & others are embedding these flawed systems into law.
Read more! www.somo.nl/the-illusion...
April 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Are we preventing abuse or just certifying it? 👀
Audits and certifications often hide, not stop, corporate abuse. Companies use them as smokescreens to continue business as usual.
🚩 Concerningly, the EU & others are embedding these flawed systems into law.
Read more! www.somo.nl/the-illusion...
Audits and certifications often hide, not stop, corporate abuse. Companies use them as smokescreens to continue business as usual.
🚩 Concerningly, the EU & others are embedding these flawed systems into law.
Read more! www.somo.nl/the-illusion...
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Momentum's annual activist training programme is back this summer. I usually do a session on UK foreign relations as a legacy of empire. Apply and/or pass to anyone else you think might be interested
@peoplesmomentum.bsky.social
peoplesmomentum.com/building-the...
@peoplesmomentum.bsky.social
peoplesmomentum.com/building-the...
Leo Panitch Leadership Programme 2025 - Momentum
Do you want to become a socialist organiser? Like the sound of a free programme to build your activist skills and knowledge with other socialists?
peoplesmomentum.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Momentum's annual activist training programme is back this summer. I usually do a session on UK foreign relations as a legacy of empire. Apply and/or pass to anyone else you think might be interested
@peoplesmomentum.bsky.social
peoplesmomentum.com/building-the...
@peoplesmomentum.bsky.social
peoplesmomentum.com/building-the...
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Warum hat die politische Linke die Arbeiter:innenschaft verloren?
@johannasiebert.bsky.social und Mara Buchstab analysieren für die Frankfurter Hefte die Gründe – und liefern konkrete Empfehlungen, um sie zurückzugewinnen.
www.frankfurter-hefte.de/artikel/anke...
@johannasiebert.bsky.social und Mara Buchstab analysieren für die Frankfurter Hefte die Gründe – und liefern konkrete Empfehlungen, um sie zurückzugewinnen.
www.frankfurter-hefte.de/artikel/anke...
Anker der Arbeiterschaft?
Im Nachgang der Bundestagswahlen häufen sich die Analysen zum Wahlverhalten der Arbeiterschaft. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass sich die rechtspopulistische bis rechtsextreme AfD als deren neue parteipo...
www.frankfurter-hefte.de
April 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Warum hat die politische Linke die Arbeiter:innenschaft verloren?
@johannasiebert.bsky.social und Mara Buchstab analysieren für die Frankfurter Hefte die Gründe – und liefern konkrete Empfehlungen, um sie zurückzugewinnen.
www.frankfurter-hefte.de/artikel/anke...
@johannasiebert.bsky.social und Mara Buchstab analysieren für die Frankfurter Hefte die Gründe – und liefern konkrete Empfehlungen, um sie zurückzugewinnen.
www.frankfurter-hefte.de/artikel/anke...
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🚨 New Working Paper published:
Out of the light, into the dark: how ‘shadow carbon financing’ hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk
🛢️💸🏝️
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A 🧵 with our main arguments:
Out of the light, into the dark: how ‘shadow carbon financing’ hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk
🛢️💸🏝️
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A 🧵 with our main arguments:
April 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🚨 New Working Paper published:
Out of the light, into the dark: how ‘shadow carbon financing’ hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk
🛢️💸🏝️
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A 🧵 with our main arguments:
Out of the light, into the dark: how ‘shadow carbon financing’ hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk
🛢️💸🏝️
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A 🧵 with our main arguments:
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March 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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📣 We’re hiring!
For our research areas led by Lucio Baccaro and Jens Beckert we are inviting applications for senior researcher positions in
political economy: s.gwdg.de/Sw6Mu8
and economic sociology: s.gwdg.de/trrYgR
Please spread the word!
For our research areas led by Lucio Baccaro and Jens Beckert we are inviting applications for senior researcher positions in
political economy: s.gwdg.de/Sw6Mu8
and economic sociology: s.gwdg.de/trrYgR
Please spread the word!
March 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
📣 We’re hiring!
For our research areas led by Lucio Baccaro and Jens Beckert we are inviting applications for senior researcher positions in
political economy: s.gwdg.de/Sw6Mu8
and economic sociology: s.gwdg.de/trrYgR
Please spread the word!
For our research areas led by Lucio Baccaro and Jens Beckert we are inviting applications for senior researcher positions in
political economy: s.gwdg.de/Sw6Mu8
and economic sociology: s.gwdg.de/trrYgR
Please spread the word!
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TNI is under attack right now and facing serious budget cuts. We urgently need autonomous funding so we can fund the work that needs to be done. If you have appreciated any of our work in recent years, and can chip in, please consider making a donation. We'd love to know you have our back!
Authoritarianism is rising, and hard-won rights are under attack. It’s easy to feel powerless—but we are not. A donation to TNI fuels global networks, unites voices, and creates space for dialogue, just alternatives, and hope. www.tni.org/en/support-tni
March 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
TNI is under attack right now and facing serious budget cuts. We urgently need autonomous funding so we can fund the work that needs to be done. If you have appreciated any of our work in recent years, and can chip in, please consider making a donation. We'd love to know you have our back!
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When Donald Trump threatens student protests, consider why: throughout modern history, student movements have repeatedly been the catalyst that toppled dictatorships. Authoritarian leaders fear campus activism precisely because it works. Below is a list of 36 student-led pro-democracy movements.🧵
March 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
When Donald Trump threatens student protests, consider why: throughout modern history, student movements have repeatedly been the catalyst that toppled dictatorships. Authoritarian leaders fear campus activism precisely because it works. Below is a list of 36 student-led pro-democracy movements.🧵
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This is another example where the AIPNET production network is so useful. There is a high overlap in the production networks for many defense goods and automotive. It’s one of the adjacent exercises to be shared.
aipnet.io
aipnet.io
I wrote a piece a few weeks ago on the surprising strengths of the German economy, some sectors shrink and others grow etc.
I wasn't quite aware of how direct the transfer of people and assets between, say, car making and defence was. www.economist.com/business/202...
I wasn't quite aware of how direct the transfer of people and assets between, say, car making and defence was. www.economist.com/business/202...
As Germany’s defence stocks go ballistic, armsmakers are tooling up
They are snapping up staff and sites from ailing firms
www.economist.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is another example where the AIPNET production network is so useful. There is a high overlap in the production networks for many defense goods and automotive. It’s one of the adjacent exercises to be shared.
aipnet.io
aipnet.io
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The lobbying budgets of the largest European defense companies surged around 40 percent between 2022 and 2023, a data investigation by POLITICO found. 👉 www.politico.eu/article/eu-d...
March 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The lobbying budgets of the largest European defense companies surged around 40 percent between 2022 and 2023, a data investigation by POLITICO found. 👉 www.politico.eu/article/eu-d...
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“We hereby declare that we are free and want to remain free.” Exactly 500 years ago today, peasants from 25 German villages Germany rose up against the nobility in one of the most significant uprisings of the German Peasants’ War. Their demands formed the basis of the “Twelve Articles”, a list...1/3
February 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“We hereby declare that we are free and want to remain free.” Exactly 500 years ago today, peasants from 25 German villages Germany rose up against the nobility in one of the most significant uprisings of the German Peasants’ War. Their demands formed the basis of the “Twelve Articles”, a list...1/3
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A Chip War Made in Germany? US Techno‐Dependencies, China Chokepoints, and the German Semiconductor Industry
@juliangermann.bsky.social @steverolf.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
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A Chip War Made in Germany? US Techno‐Dependencies, China Chokepoints, and the German Semiconductor Industry
@juliangermann.bsky.social @steverolf.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
➡️ shortt.link/pag8265bsky
A Chip War Made in Germany? US Techno‐Dependencies, China Chokepoints, and the German Semiconductor Industry | Article | Politics and Governance
Julian Germann, Steve Rolf, Joseph Baines, Sean Kenji Starrs
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February 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
#2🏅
A Chip War Made in Germany? US Techno‐Dependencies, China Chokepoints, and the German Semiconductor Industry
@juliangermann.bsky.social @steverolf.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
➡️ shortt.link/pag8265bsky
A Chip War Made in Germany? US Techno‐Dependencies, China Chokepoints, and the German Semiconductor Industry
@juliangermann.bsky.social @steverolf.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
➡️ shortt.link/pag8265bsky