Sara Lorenzini
@slorenzini.bsky.social
Historian, Cold War, Development and Environment
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Xi sets out conservative climate goal for China over next decade on.ft.com/4mtVEyl
Xi sets out conservative climate goal for China over next decade
President contradicts US leader by calling the green energy transition ‘the trend of our time’
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September 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Xi sets out conservative climate goal for China over next decade on.ft.com/4mtVEyl
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Everyone’s looking forward to this! Great way to kick off the new academic year!
Southwest friends: tomorrow at 3pm, I'm speaking in Exeter on the Erased tour, followed by reception. Do come by. @exeter.ac.uk @profalexp.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Everyone’s looking forward to this! Great way to kick off the new academic year!
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We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...
The Coming Ecological Cold War
Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.
foreignpolicy.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...
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Simple as that
August 31, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Simple as that
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Hey book lovers! UNC Press just redesigned their website and are offering 50% off ALL books to celebrate! This is the biggest sale I've ever seen them do (even better than my author discount, TBH), and I'm definitely going to stock up. This is your chance to get my new book for only $15!
⚡️ New website. Big sale. ⚡️
Snag 50% off (plus FREE SHIPPING on orders over $75) with code 01NEWSITE50 at checkout. Hurry, this deal’s disappearing faster than our old homepage!
*US only. Excludes distributed titles.
Snag 50% off (plus FREE SHIPPING on orders over $75) with code 01NEWSITE50 at checkout. Hurry, this deal’s disappearing faster than our old homepage!
*US only. Excludes distributed titles.
August 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Hey book lovers! UNC Press just redesigned their website and are offering 50% off ALL books to celebrate! This is the biggest sale I've ever seen them do (even better than my author discount, TBH), and I'm definitely going to stock up. This is your chance to get my new book for only $15!
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In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
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phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
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China is building 74% of all current solar and wind projects, report says
Beijing is dominating construction of renewable energy sources, according to Global Energy Monitor
www.ft.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
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"The better way to understand Anchorage is not as the start of something new, but as the culmination of a longer process. As the U.S. dismantles its foreign-policy tools, as this administration fires the people who know how to use them, our ability to act with any agility will diminish"
August 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM
"The better way to understand Anchorage is not as the start of something new, but as the culmination of a longer process. As the U.S. dismantles its foreign-policy tools, as this administration fires the people who know how to use them, our ability to act with any agility will diminish"
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Happy to share that my book, Ambition and Adjustment: The Making and Unmaking of Postcolonial Development in Africa, will be published by the University of Chicago Press next year! More soon about this project that I am very proud of and have been working on for a very long time.
August 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Happy to share that my book, Ambition and Adjustment: The Making and Unmaking of Postcolonial Development in Africa, will be published by the University of Chicago Press next year! More soon about this project that I am very proud of and have been working on for a very long time.
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Water connects us all through atmospheric moisture that travels across continents. Deforestation in the Amazon reduces rainfall as far as the Congo Basin. We need a new lens that treats the hydrological cycle as a global common good requiring collective action. 1/2
The World Needs a New Economics of Water
Mariana Mazzucato proposes a radical change in perspective toward humanity's most precious resource.
www.project-syndicate.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Water connects us all through atmospheric moisture that travels across continents. Deforestation in the Amazon reduces rainfall as far as the Congo Basin. We need a new lens that treats the hydrological cycle as a global common good requiring collective action. 1/2
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US is becoming poorer & weaker as it dismantles the very system it once built. Now, marooned on a fossil-drenched continent, the question is whether it will watch in sullen silence as others climb toward the solar uplands, or have the power to crush the spring
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...
“China’s dramatic surge of investment into the ’new three‘—EVs, batteries, and solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5M barrels/day by 2030. That cheaper green tech is now enabling 100+ countries to break free from … imported hydrocarbons towards the sunlit uplands of electric self-sufficiency.”
BRICS in 2025 | The Polycrisis
Nations meet in Brasilia for the 2025 BRICS Summit. China's rise and US chaos shape the opportunities and challenges for the group.
www.phenomenalworld.org
August 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
US is becoming poorer & weaker as it dismantles the very system it once built. Now, marooned on a fossil-drenched continent, the question is whether it will watch in sullen silence as others climb toward the solar uplands, or have the power to crush the spring
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...
A scary look into the future of the (all male) organic intellectuals of Silicon Valley
On the organic intellectuals of Silicon Valley nilsgilman.substack.com/p/silicon-va...
Silicon Valley's Organic Intellectuals
Forget academia — that's over. The Valley's most influential minds are leveraging wealth and tech platforms to redefine public discourse and shape tomorrow's realities.
nilsgilman.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
A scary look into the future of the (all male) organic intellectuals of Silicon Valley
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7 years ago I wrote that, "the most lasting long-term consequence of the Trump Administration," could be "the disruption of the belief in neutral gov't statistics that form the epistemological foundation of shared social, economic & political reality." www.the-american-interest.com/2018/04/17/d...
Dictatorships and Data Standards - The American Interest
Since the 19th century, government statistics have been central to our sense of shared social reality. Is that going away?
www.the-american-interest.com
August 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
7 years ago I wrote that, "the most lasting long-term consequence of the Trump Administration," could be "the disruption of the belief in neutral gov't statistics that form the epistemological foundation of shared social, economic & political reality." www.the-american-interest.com/2018/04/17/d...
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"It is time to develop a new geocentric model — not in the astronomical sense, but philosophically: a fundamental awareness that places the Earth system at the centre of our thinking and actions, and that considers the raison de Terre as the keystone of global governance." aeon.co/essays/we-ne...
We need a planetary system of diplomacy for the 21st century | Aeon Essays
We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national and commercial interests
aeon.co
July 31, 2025 at 7:29 AM
"It is time to develop a new geocentric model — not in the astronomical sense, but philosophically: a fundamental awareness that places the Earth system at the centre of our thinking and actions, and that considers the raison de Terre as the keystone of global governance." aeon.co/essays/we-ne...
“the energy transition is likely to become the locus of a new eco-ideological Cold War that will reshape global alignments and provoke existential resistance from the fossil-fueled ancien régime.”
Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets — it’s the harbinger of a coming eco-ideological Cold War over the metabolic basis of modern industrial society. nilsgilman.substack.com/p/the-coming...
The Coming Eco-Ideological Cold War
Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets — it’s a geopolitical revolution already reshaping the global order.
nilsgilman.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:28 AM
“the energy transition is likely to become the locus of a new eco-ideological Cold War that will reshape global alignments and provoke existential resistance from the fossil-fueled ancien régime.”
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Join us for our public event w/ @quinnslobodian.com on the neoliberal roots of the populist right.
Professor of #InternationalHistory @bostonu.bsky.social, Quinn Slobodian was named as one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers by @prospectmagazine.co.uk
📅 21st May, Maison de la paix
👉 shorturl.at/EGNk6
Professor of #InternationalHistory @bostonu.bsky.social, Quinn Slobodian was named as one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers by @prospectmagazine.co.uk
📅 21st May, Maison de la paix
👉 shorturl.at/EGNk6
May 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Join us for our public event w/ @quinnslobodian.com on the neoliberal roots of the populist right.
Professor of #InternationalHistory @bostonu.bsky.social, Quinn Slobodian was named as one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers by @prospectmagazine.co.uk
📅 21st May, Maison de la paix
👉 shorturl.at/EGNk6
Professor of #InternationalHistory @bostonu.bsky.social, Quinn Slobodian was named as one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers by @prospectmagazine.co.uk
📅 21st May, Maison de la paix
👉 shorturl.at/EGNk6
Looks great!
the new (and fascinating) @OUPLaw volume 'Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies' is out now - congrats to @HistoryNed & Raluca Raluca Grosescu.
academic.oup.com/book/58976
academic.oup.com/book/58976
Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies
Abstract. This volume explores the overlooked role of state socialist intellectuals, experts, and governments from Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia in deve
academic.oup.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Looks great!
Great article on the unexpected founders of neoliberalism.
“History is full of people who live long enough to grow uncomfortable in the world they have helped to create.” This is great. open.substack.com/pub/ourtime/...
Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024
As an individual, Jimmy Carter stood as a rebuke to our venal and heartless political class. As a politician, his private virtues proved to be public vices.
open.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Great article on the unexpected founders of neoliberalism.
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"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Here is a thread on what we have put together:
Here is a thread on what we have put together:
November 28, 2024 at 12:38 PM
"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Here is a thread on what we have put together:
Here is a thread on what we have put together:
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Absolutely superb inaugural lecture by @janinadill.bsky.social
Congrats
Thank you for the cameo for my X feed around 36:00
youtu.be/PcrzgZ4b7mc?...
Congrats
Thank you for the cameo for my X feed around 36:00
youtu.be/PcrzgZ4b7mc?...
Global security: Is law our last hope? Inaugural Lecture – Janina Dill
YouTube video by Blavatnik School of Government
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November 28, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Absolutely superb inaugural lecture by @janinadill.bsky.social
Congrats
Thank you for the cameo for my X feed around 36:00
youtu.be/PcrzgZ4b7mc?...
Congrats
Thank you for the cameo for my X feed around 36:00
youtu.be/PcrzgZ4b7mc?...