Paul Beaumont
@pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at NUPI; Editor at Cooperation & Conflict. Interests: global environmental politics, international institutions, nukes, hierarchies & dodgy-indicators. If you really do learn most from mistakes then I'm a genius.
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📣 Yet another SI for you, folks! Delighted to announce the publication of a @gepjournal.bsky.social special issue on “Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene”, co-edited with my dear colleague Bruna Bosi-Moreira.
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Volume 25 Issue 3 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press
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September 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
📣 Yet another SI for you, folks! Delighted to announce the publication of a @gepjournal.bsky.social special issue on “Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene”, co-edited with my dear colleague Bruna Bosi-Moreira.
👉 direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...
👉 direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...
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The McGill University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in International Relations, with an emphasis on global governance and/or international security.
The McGill University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in International Relations, with an emphasis on global governance and/or international security.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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September 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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The McGill University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in International Relations, with an emphasis on global governance and/or international security.
The McGill University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in International Relations, with an emphasis on global governance and/or international security.
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"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people."
Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
July 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people."
Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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We’re c.2004 in the crypto-banking nexus. Everyone thinks they’re a stable genius & society is hailing them as such. But eventually the tide will go out & the inevitable Buffett moment will be incredibly ugly & costly. It always is. Over & over & over again. We keep forgetting what we’ve learned.
Speculation in crypto, in & of itself, isn't a financial stability problem. What makes it so is that deregulation + large global capital inflows + large banks speculating with that capital will trigger a 2008-style systemic banking crisis. This is a regular, predictable pattern across space & time.
July 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
We’re c.2004 in the crypto-banking nexus. Everyone thinks they’re a stable genius & society is hailing them as such. But eventually the tide will go out & the inevitable Buffett moment will be incredibly ugly & costly. It always is. Over & over & over again. We keep forgetting what we’ve learned.
🐳 🥳 Happy news to share! My book - The Grammar of Status Competition - has been awarded the Jeffrey Friedman Best Book Award: The APSA's Knowledge, Ideas and Politics section book prize. This is the first - and perhaps last! - academic award I have ever received, so it means a lot. 1/4
July 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🐳 🥳 Happy news to share! My book - The Grammar of Status Competition - has been awarded the Jeffrey Friedman Best Book Award: The APSA's Knowledge, Ideas and Politics section book prize. This is the first - and perhaps last! - academic award I have ever received, so it means a lot. 1/4
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📢 The volume "Governing Nature and the Making of World Order", edited by the great team of @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @lucasdopaes.bsky.social, is out now. And it's OA.
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June 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📢 The volume "Governing Nature and the Making of World Order", edited by the great team of @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @lucasdopaes.bsky.social, is out now. And it's OA.
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An excellent combination Matt! I would just add that the book is very flexible: pairs well with all known liquids. Thanks for your outstanding contribution! It is consistent with your much appreciated dedication to the project that you have gotten ahead of the editors on the promotion! :)
The latest in my book & beer series (it’s been a while) is this wonderful collection I was privileged to contribute to, edited by brilliant colleagues at @nupinytt.bsky.social- @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @lucasdopaes.bsky.social. Paired with a Range Hazy IPA!
June 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
An excellent combination Matt! I would just add that the book is very flexible: pairs well with all known liquids. Thanks for your outstanding contribution! It is consistent with your much appreciated dedication to the project that you have gotten ahead of the editors on the promotion! :)
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If climate finance only flows to what’s bankable, how do we fund what's actually necessary? My research contributes to the boon in evidence showing how derisking locks governments into private finance-oriented & ineffective transitions - leaving essential but unbankable sectors behind
June 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
If climate finance only flows to what’s bankable, how do we fund what's actually necessary? My research contributes to the boon in evidence showing how derisking locks governments into private finance-oriented & ineffective transitions - leaving essential but unbankable sectors behind
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🎯 Open research positions!
We’re hiring three Postdoctoral candidates/Senior Researchers for Navigator – an ERC-funded project exploring how country performance indicators shape global governance.
📍Oslo | 🕐 Initial 2-year contract
Apply here: www.nupi.no/en/about-nup...
We’re hiring three Postdoctoral candidates/Senior Researchers for Navigator – an ERC-funded project exploring how country performance indicators shape global governance.
📍Oslo | 🕐 Initial 2-year contract
Apply here: www.nupi.no/en/about-nup...
June 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🎯 Open research positions!
We’re hiring three Postdoctoral candidates/Senior Researchers for Navigator – an ERC-funded project exploring how country performance indicators shape global governance.
📍Oslo | 🕐 Initial 2-year contract
Apply here: www.nupi.no/en/about-nup...
We’re hiring three Postdoctoral candidates/Senior Researchers for Navigator – an ERC-funded project exploring how country performance indicators shape global governance.
📍Oslo | 🕐 Initial 2-year contract
Apply here: www.nupi.no/en/about-nup...
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Those crazy hippies at the Financial Times are at it again. Why are our governments so afraid to face reality? who are they actually being led by? certainly not their voters.
June 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Those crazy hippies at the Financial Times are at it again. Why are our governments so afraid to face reality? who are they actually being led by? certainly not their voters.
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Very happy to see my piece "The power of recognition: rethinking the instrumentality of status in world politics" being published in @iajournal.bsky.social
Read the full OA-article here: academic.oup.com/ia/article/d...
Read the full OA-article here: academic.oup.com/ia/article/d...
May 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Very happy to see my piece "The power of recognition: rethinking the instrumentality of status in world politics" being published in @iajournal.bsky.social
Read the full OA-article here: academic.oup.com/ia/article/d...
Read the full OA-article here: academic.oup.com/ia/article/d...
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25% tariff on Johnny in the basement
24% on mixing up the medicine
37% on the pavement
66% on thinking about the government
45% the man in the trench coat
31% on badge out, laid off
61% on her bad cough
Look out kid
It’s somethin’ you did
God knows when
But you’re doin’ it again
24% on mixing up the medicine
37% on the pavement
66% on thinking about the government
45% the man in the trench coat
31% on badge out, laid off
61% on her bad cough
Look out kid
It’s somethin’ you did
God knows when
But you’re doin’ it again
25% tariff on a whiskey drink
37% tariff on a Vodka drink
85% tariff on a Lager drink
110% tariff on a cider drink
132% tariff on songs that remind you of the good times
138% tariff on songs that remind you of the better times
37% tariff on a Vodka drink
85% tariff on a Lager drink
110% tariff on a cider drink
132% tariff on songs that remind you of the good times
138% tariff on songs that remind you of the better times
May 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
25% tariff on Johnny in the basement
24% on mixing up the medicine
37% on the pavement
66% on thinking about the government
45% the man in the trench coat
31% on badge out, laid off
61% on her bad cough
Look out kid
It’s somethin’ you did
God knows when
But you’re doin’ it again
24% on mixing up the medicine
37% on the pavement
66% on thinking about the government
45% the man in the trench coat
31% on badge out, laid off
61% on her bad cough
Look out kid
It’s somethin’ you did
God knows when
But you’re doin’ it again
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#Britain’s populist surge isn’t born of rage, but neglect. What #ReformUK reaps in the local elections is not rebellion, but inheritance—from towns where policy forgot to tread and hope was for long left to rot.
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May 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
#Britain’s populist surge isn’t born of rage, but neglect. What #ReformUK reaps in the local elections is not rebellion, but inheritance—from towns where policy forgot to tread and hope was for long left to rot.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
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I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”
April 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”
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Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/
April 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/
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I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."
But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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April 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."
But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
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Very informative chart from Washington Post
April 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Very informative chart from Washington Post
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DREZNER: The people leading this are unserious, unknowing dotards. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/there-are-...
April 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
DREZNER: The people leading this are unserious, unknowing dotards. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/there-are-...
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i first called this "a public choice theory of recent developments in international trade" but I am weak so went for the clickbait
#19 Trump's Tariffs Make a Bit More Sense if You Think Like a Mafia Boss
A Public Choice interpretation. Well, sort of.
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April 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
i first called this "a public choice theory of recent developments in international trade" but I am weak so went for the clickbait
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Your tariff is the number of times you have walked into a room and instantly forgotten why you went there multiplied by the love for your workplace and divided by the weight of Capital Volume 3.
April 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Your tariff is the number of times you have walked into a room and instantly forgotten why you went there multiplied by the love for your workplace and divided by the weight of Capital Volume 3.
Great thread: excellent sketch of the potential explanations for why business and markets have so far proved relatively sanguine regarding Trump II breach with economic orthodoxy and indeed most heterodoxy.
Large swaths of Trump's agenda are bad for capital, yet despite strong incentives to collectively mobilize AND significant power to exert their will, we have seen very little resistance from big business interests. Why?
Below, five non-mutually exclusive possibilities that have occurred to me:
Below, five non-mutually exclusive possibilities that have occurred to me:
I don't know about you, but I am getting impatient waiting for the capitalists to save us. What happened to the whole "state as the managing committee of the bourgeoisie" thing? A political economy 🧵 1/
April 3, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Great thread: excellent sketch of the potential explanations for why business and markets have so far proved relatively sanguine regarding Trump II breach with economic orthodoxy and indeed most heterodoxy.
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Trump's attacks on Canada and the EU are drastically shifting public opinion both in the US and abroad.
Per Economist + YouGov
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Per Economist + YouGov
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
April 2, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Trump's attacks on Canada and the EU are drastically shifting public opinion both in the US and abroad.
Per Economist + YouGov
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
Per Economist + YouGov
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
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Heads up IR friends: you have five days left to submit your abstract to NUPI'a inaugural theory conference!
250-500€ travel reimbursements, plus (most) food will be provided.
www.nupi.no/en/events/20...
250-500€ travel reimbursements, plus (most) food will be provided.
www.nupi.no/en/events/20...
Call for Abstracts: 2025 NUPI Theory Conference | NUPI
Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics: Social Construction in Turbulent Times
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March 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Heads up IR friends: you have five days left to submit your abstract to NUPI'a inaugural theory conference!
250-500€ travel reimbursements, plus (most) food will be provided.
www.nupi.no/en/events/20...
250-500€ travel reimbursements, plus (most) food will be provided.
www.nupi.no/en/events/20...