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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 15h

Free weekend update is out. Russia has a strategy for this winter--massive war crimes to make Ukraine unlivable. We need to speak the truth on that. One reason they need to do this is that they are struggling in other parts of the war--see Vivaldi. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

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Weekend Update #205: Russia’s Strategy In Two Words: “War Crimes”

Operation Vivaldi, Even More Robots; The Trump-Putin Quid Pro Quo

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My colleagues Fawwaz Alabdulhadi, @jacktaggart.bsky.social I have a new article published (open access) in @ripejournal.bsky.social, "The petrochemical pivot: geostrategic globalization and the future of oil and gas". I hope you will find it informative. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The petrochemical pivot: geostrategic globalization and the future of oil and gas

While demand for oil as an energy source is projected to decline, petrochemical demand is expected to grow significantly. Toward securing future profitability, oil and gas (O&G) firms are pivoting ...

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 16/09/2026

NEW ANALYSIS: Global fossil-fuel emissions are set to fall by around 0.5% in 2026 amid the ongoing Hormuz crisis We've all see the scare stories about a "return to coal" – but the "demand destruction" for oil is even bigger Here's how it stacks up: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...

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Edward Walker @gnuggat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Good. NB: “Carney has instructed his special envoy to EUR to scope out the most ambitious possibilities short of full membership in the EU or its common market… the reorienting of an economy and a society that for half a century has been dominated by the US.”

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Derek R. Peterson @unseenarchive.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Colleagues will be sorry to hear that historian John Iliffe has this morning passed away in Cambridge at age 87. Iliffe was a maker of the academic field of African history. He took up a post at the University of Dar es Salaam shortly after Tanganyika's independence. 1/

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Chatham House Africa @africaprog.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🌍 | “China increasingly sees Africa as one of the few remaining large-scale spaces where industrial expansion, urbanisation, infrastructure deployment and consumer growth can still unfold simultaneously over decades,” Prof Carlos Lopes tells @scmpnews.bsky.social: www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

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How Africa is becoming a ‘strategic hub’ for Chinese industrial expansion

Countries including Zimbabwe and Guinea are ending the pit-to-ship model that saw them exporting raw minerals with limited local gains.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Have we noticed no one has warned North Korea to stop supplying ballistic missiles to Russia?

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

People are missing the real story here. It is this. If Putin is thinking of testing NATO, he knows that the USA would do nothing to protect Europe. In other words, he knows what Trump will do. If he thought the USA would fight, he would never consider this. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

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Exclusive | U.S. Intel Finds Putin Could Test NATO’s Resolve With Limited Incursion

The new assessment updates past forecasts that Russia’s leader wouldn’t provoke the alliance during the Ukraine war.

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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Do higher oil prices fuel conflict? New column with Maximilian Herrmann and Jingke Pan: organized violence moves toward oil locations and away from nearby areas, while protests spread outward. Aggregation can hide the resource curse:

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

❓Is "Development" becoming a dirty word❓ ✍️ Many blogs from events read like school essays, this one doesn't! 🔎 @heinerjanus.bsky.social & Michael Roll ( @idos-research.bsky.social) discuss the main arguments made at a recent @globaldevinst.bsky.social conference www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2626

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What to Play Next: Development after the End of Development

By Heiner Janus and Michael Roll Manchester embodies reinvention like few other places. It built the world’s first industrial economy, watched it rust, and recast itself as the capital of Eng…

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 13/06/2026

This looks like an instant hit from Troels Krarup and Peter Karnøe who find that - across decades of technological, political, and economic changes - preeminent government-advising Danish economists consistently ignore dynamics of political economy and innovation to advocate (only) for carbon taxes.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

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Peter Bofin-Kilusungu @swahilistreet.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Retired Prime Minister Joseph Sinde Warioba - more Tanzanians were killed in the election troubles than in the Kagera war….

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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

My article in @ripejournal.bsky.social now has an issue number! 🥳 It shows how derisked decarbonization leads governments to build state capacity where transitions create bankable growth opportunities while leaving other crucial sectors (forestry, mining) behind www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies

With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, governments around the world committed to developing national plans to reduce emissions and limit average global temperatures to below 2 °C above p...

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Hydrogen dreams meet reality as oil and gas groups abandon projects - BP and Exxon are some of the big companies that have halted plans for low-carbon #hydrogen plants in recent months HT @carbonbrief.org www.ft.com/content/b098...

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Hydrogen dreams meet reality as oil and gas groups abandon projects

BP and Exxon are some of the big companies that have halted plans for low-carbon plants in recent months

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Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Pleased to share our new article, which examines Mozambique's energy transition as multiple, socially/ spatially uneven, and contested -thanks to @marcusjpower.bsky.social for leading this, and Lorraine Howe and Carlos Shenga for your many insights www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Uneven development and the geographies of energy transition in Mozambique

In Mozambique, sustainable energy access is an increasing priority for a diverse range of actors seeking to improve livelihoods and stimulate economic…

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Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen @landaffairs.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Call for Conference Papers: International Conference on the Political Economy of Energy Transitions and Inequality in Africa. Join us at this conference, which will take place 30-31 March 2026, University of Ghana, Accra. Please see the full Call via: www.ug.edu.gh/announcement...

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Call for Conference Papers - International Conference on the Political Economy of Energy Transition and Inequality in Africa | University of Ghana

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Ben Taylor @benmtega.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

What Went Wrong in Tanzania? How the “island of stability” in a turbulent region descended into chaos - and where it goes from here. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/06/t...

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What Went Wrong in Tanzania?

How the “island of stability” in a turbulent region descended into chaos—and where it goes from here.

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Peter Newell @peternewell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

My new book is out States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society published by @universitypress.cambridge.org With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

'States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society' 🌍 What is the role of the state in supporting transitions towards a more sustainable world? A new Environment and Climate Politics Working Group article by Peter Newell 🌟 Read now! 👉https://ow.ly/OFk250XmhCN

Papilio arcturus Westwood, 1842 - Blue Peacock.

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 02/11/2025

The election on Wednesday was supposed to cement President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s legitimacy as president of the United Republic. According to the story told by the country’s electoral authority, and state-run media outlets, it did exactly that. The story on Tanzania’s streets is very different.

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Hundreds reportedly killed in post-polls violence

Unified Tanzania has never experienced unrest on this scale before.

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Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Huge, unprecedented protests in Tanzania yesterday. I've found literally one post on bluesky. This is why some of us can't fully shut our twitter accounts, much as we might wish to.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

"The world remains in an energy addition mode, rather than a clear transition." Quite a comprehensive summary of the solar revolution from the FT.

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The global boom in solar — with or without the US

Despite the scepticism about renewables in Washington, falling prices for new panels are making a compelling business case around the world

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Peter Bofin-Kilusungu @swahilistreet.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Tightening repression guarantees Samia Suluhu Hassan’s victory, but has strained her own party. Will she and her party come out stronger?

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Jonas Meckling @jonasmeckling.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

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Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Mission 300, championed by the World Bank & the AfDB, among others, needs a new mission. Electrifying African firms for growth and development: open.substack.com/pub/kenopalo...

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Electrifying African firms for growth and development

On the urgent need to rethink the core goals of Mission 300

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tomlavers.bsky.social @tomlavers.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

As #Ethiopia finally gets ready to inaugurate the #GERD, read about the history of Ethiopian dam building and the story of the GERD in this open access book (download link below) or a shorter thread below.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

US & Russia coercing countries to lock in carbon. But "countries w green industrial bases & supportive domestic political coalitions are more resilient to such pressure." Two policy briefs: 1 plataformacipo.org/en/publicati... 2 www.netzeropolicylab.com/brics-going-... bsky.app/profile/bhbr...

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“BRICS and the Green Industrialization of the Future” – Volume 2, No. 2, 2025 - Plataforma CIPÓ

Plataforma CIPÓ has just released the policy brief “BRICS and the Green Industrialization of the Future”, authored by researchers Benjamin H. Bradlow and Alexandros Kentikelenis. The publication discu...

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CESifo @cesifo.org · 15/07/2025

New Paper Alert!📢 "Foreign Aid and Targeted Political Violence" by @adreher.bsky.social‬ Jingke Pan @cjschneider.bsky.social To understand how foreign aid can unintentionally fuel political violence in fragile democracies, read the full study here: 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

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