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Milan Babic

@mbabic.bsky.social
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climate politics, state & corporate power | author 'The Rise of State Capital': t.ly/MfSm & 'Geoökonomie' (2025): t.ly/4nUBl | contact: milanbabic.com

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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
So nice to see this piece out with @jacktaggart.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social and Peter Dauvergne on global environmental governance in a fracturing liberal political economy... We talk about climate, food and plastics governance as liberal norms erode...
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Annika Joeres @annikajoeres.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Droht nicht gerade Deindustrialisierung durch die größte Ölkrise der Geschichte?
Friedrich Merz warnt vor Deindustrialisierung durch Klimaschutz
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Without energy efficiency, the EU would need — and pay — 31% more for energy today. Since 2000, efficiency has removed 265 Mtoe of demand from the market entirely. The best protection against a price shock is not finding cheaper oil and gas. It's needing less of it.
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Georg Diez @georgdiez.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Lars Klingbeil war angezogen wie der Totengräber der deutschen Sozialdemokratie, schwarzer Anzug, dunkle Krawatte, Trauerflor. Und das, was er zu sagen hatte, ließ wenig Raum für Optimismus. Lieber sprach er von Opfern. Aber wer will solche Politik? Mein Substack: open.substack.com/pub/georgdie...
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Visionen als sozialdemokratisches Problem
Lars Klingbeil, die SPD und die Frage der Zukunft
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
eine der Pathologien des pol. Zentrismus ist, dass man bis zum bitteren Ende glaubt, man könnte mit den Feinden der offenen Gesellschaft diskutieren und evtl. etwas 'lernen'. Glaubt ihnen, wenn sie sagen, wer sie sind und wo sie stehen.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 17/02/2026
The US clean energy manufacturing investment bust really is dramatic, and not slowing down. Great investment tracker maintained by @jayturner.bsky.social and students. www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
Chart showing the rise and fall of US clean energy manufacturing investment since 2018.
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
What Tarik says. Hinzu kommt: soziale Medien sind nicht das Problem, sondern die Milliärdäre und Oligarchen, denen diese Firmen gehören. Warum sollte ein kommerzfreier öffentlicher digitaler Raum mit Spielregeln und unter demokratischer Kontrolle schlecht für Jugendliche sein?
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Makronom @makronom.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Deutschlands hastiger LNG-Schwenk droht in eine neue Abhängigkeit zu führen – diesmal von den USA. In einer geoökonomischen Welt ist Dekarbonisierung kein Ballast, sondern unabdingbar für strategische Autonomie, zeigen @mbabic.bsky.social & @danmertens.bsky.social:
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Die Geoökonomie der Dekarbonisierung im deutschen Exportmodell
Deutschlands hastiger LNG-Schwenk droht in eine neue Abhängigkeit zu führen – diesmal von den USA. Der Versuch, Industrie und Exportmodell zu schützen, hat die Energiewende gebremst und einen gefährli...
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Economists for Future e.V. | DE @econ4future.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Geoökonomische Schocks sind mehr als Preisschocks. @mbabic.bsky.social & @danmertens.bsky.social zeigen, warum #Dekarbonisierung geopolitisch kein Ballast ist, sondern Autonomie + Resilienz stärken kann. 👉 makronom.de/die-geooekon... @makronom.bsky.social #econ4future #Geoökonomie #Energiewende #LNG
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 05/02/2026
🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 doi.org/10.1177/0032...
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Marius Bickhardt @mbickhardt.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
New paper in CNS: 'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR' This link gives full access ⤵️ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF... An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
RIPE is delighted to welcome @mbabic.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam) as a new editor at RIPE from January 2026. His work explores the shift from neoliberal to post-neoliberal order—especially changing state/corporate power and how to decarbonise large state-owned firms. milanbabic.com
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reijer hendrikse @reijer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A new politics, rising out of the void. This is breathtakingly beautiful.
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
while the richest person on the planet cannot shut up about satellites, we mere mortals (w. @joschabels.bsky.social) are left to study the pesky cables here down on earth in the mud (or rather on the seabed). Check what we found out in our new open access paper in Globalizations: lnkd.in/ep4q94XK
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Holy hell, what an obituary
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Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 14/01/2026
@abenewman.bsky.social is right. There is an alternative. as.ft.com/r/7b8f914c-f...
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Europe should embrace the idea of going it alone
[FREE TO READ] The more the EU has to pay for ingratiation with Trump, the less convincing its strategic rationale for doing so
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Mit David Vogel sprach ich letztes Jahr über das Ende der neoliberalen Globalisierung. David hat daraus einen richtig guten Podcast gemacht, inklusive soundbites von Reagan, Thatcher und Gerhard Schröder (what's not to like?). Das Ergebnis könnt ihr hier nachhören: www.nzz.ch/podcast/gren...
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Grenzen dicht, Zölle zurück: Ist das Ende der neoliberalen Globalisierung erreicht?
Für den Politökonomen Milan Babic hat das Zeitalter der Geoökonomie begonnen.
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pw-portal @pw-portal.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Zölle, Handelskriege, Industriepolitik: Ist die neoliberale Globalisierung vorbei? Und falls ja, was kommt danach? @mbabic.bsky.social bringt die großen Verschiebungen auf den Begriff der Geoökonomisierung. @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social (@mpifg.bsky.social) hat das Buch für uns rezensiert @suhrkamp.de
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Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Milan Babić: Geoökonomie: Anatomie der neuen Weltordnung
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
RIPE enters 2026 with an editorial transition. Huge thanks to outgoing team @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social, @skostem.bsky.social, Kevin Young & Hongying Wang! In the next few days, we’ll introduce new editors: @johannespetry.bsky.social, @alibhagat.bsky.social, Ida Bastiaens & @mbabic.bsky.social.
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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The decision to finance arms for Ukraine through collective EU debt is taboo-breaking--but also part of a larger security turn in Europe. Ophelia Bentley & I have a new piece out that shows how the EU has geopoliticized markets in an unexpected arena: competition policy. doi.org/10.1017/elo.... 1/
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The securitization of competition in the European Union | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
The securitization of competition in the European Union
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Every billionaire is a policy failure, example 3290853 www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
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The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate
Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites are building mega-families—testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them.
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
one week left to submit your abstracts for next year's SASE conference in Bordeaux 👇👇👇
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Back when Dems governed like they meant business.
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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Cutting Through The Noise How can we not only cultivate our pessimism of the intellect, but also foster an optimism of the political will against all odds? In this #ISRFbulletin contribution, @mbabic.bsky.social suggests three avenues that might help with this task. isrf.org/blog/cutting...
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Cutting through the noise
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 30/11/2025
Interesting thing about the debate around ‘populism’ is that the concern about populism on the right is that it can destroy democracy and human rights, and the worry about the left is that … well they have nice ideas but maybe some of them might be hard to put into practice
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/11/2025
Hope is here. Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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René Engel @reneengel.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Unerwartet, trotzdem da: Rossmann Deutsche Bank Antifa.
Screenshot Lebensmittelzeitung: Rossmann kündigt Mitgliedschaft bei Familienunternehmerverband.Screenshot Handelsblatt: Deutsche Bank storniert Mietvertrag des Verbands
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Daniel Mügge @dmugge.eurosky.social · 25/11/2025
Regine Paul, Vali Stan and I have analysed how deeply #AI is entangled in global politics and corporate profit-hunting. “The AI Matrix” is the result – and the digital book-version is open access: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (Link doesn't work? Try this one: www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/M...)
Book cover of "The AI Matrix" by Daniel Mügge, Regine Paul and Vali Stan, showing a world map, hands grabbing Dollar bills, a robot arm and interconnected cables
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates. Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal. Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Another gentle reminder. The only way for Germany to stop the meltdown in its auto sector is by working with Europe. Germany is too small to go it alone. Anyone with half an econ brain can see that.
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
this is just such a stark contrast to the general Western mood that climate politics is dead. THIS is what climate politics is about (the political economy of decarbonization). Everything else follows.
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 05/11/2025
This is the way to deal with Trump.
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Gabor Scheiring @gscheiring.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani will be the 111th mayor of New York City. He represents everyday people who struggle to pay rent and bills, let alone save or get ahead. Yes, you can build affordable cities. Vienna did it a hundred years ago, and there is no reason we cannot do it again today. 1/4
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
check our network and submit a paper for Bordeaux 2026!
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Sam Altman gonna single-handedly cause the Second Great Depression
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Mamdani: hey man, maybe we should use a fraction of the $1 billion the guy I am running against gave to Elon Musk when he was governor for something else instead. Maybe for fast and affordable buses in the city? FAZ: Yep, definitely Klassenkampfrhetorik www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
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Bürgermeisterwahl in New York: Der Antikapitalist Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani kam aus dem Nirgendwo und ist jetzt der große Favorit für die Wahl zum Stadtoberhaupt in New York. Die Wirtschaftselite der Stadt macht er mit seiner Klassenkampfrhetorik mächtig nervös...
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
ich finde das ein gutes Beispiel für die begrenzte Aussagekraft der 'Populismus'-Kategorie: die einen wollen das Ende der liberalen Demokratie, die anderen einen höheren Mindestlohn. Wenn man beide in einen Topf wirft, kommt so etwas dabei raus (nevermind d. empirische Unhaltbarkeit solcher Ideen)
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Might be a useful companion piece to @ulrichbrand.bsky.social and co-authors recent, excellent article in Nature Climate Change: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... I think we largely agree, but we see more scope for bureaucratic agency to overcome the structural limitations of the #environmentalstate.
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Structural limitations of the decarbonization state - Nature Climate Change
The implementation gap between national climate targets and actual policies has been seen as a main barrier for decarbonization. Here researchers show it is rooted in the structural limitation of stat...
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
With Caroline Ahler Christesen and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social, we asked: what can the environmental state actually do? The answer is out now with @gepjournal.bsky.social 👇 If you ever wondered about this, check our paper and let us know what you think: direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
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What Can the Environmental State Actually Do? Three Critiques and Their Limits
Abstract. Three critiques of the environmental state shape the discussion of its possibilities and limits. First, states are deemed structurally unable to mitigate climate change due to the “glass cei...
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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
You think your elections are nail biters? In the last poll of the polls, the @peilingwijzer.bsky.social produced by @tomlouwerse.nl, before election day in the Netherlands tomorrow, three parties are tied for first place peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl
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Laatste Peilingwijzer – Peilingwijzer
De Peilingwijzer combineert de Tweede Kamerpeilingen van Ipsos I&O & Verian/EenVandaag
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Maslows Hammer gilt auch hier usw., aber es ist doch erstaunlich, wie sehr die Dramatik der Diagnose - Deutschland wird bald Italien - von der Popeligkeit der Lösung - schafft die Mütterrente (wtf?) ab - konterkariert wird. Es liegt nahe, dass weder die Diagnose noch die Medizin helfen werden.
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Felix Syrovatka @felixulrich.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Auch dieses Semester gibt’s an unserem Arbeitsbereich ein spannendes #Kolloquium u.a. mit @mbabic.bsky.social, @bettikohlrausch.bsky.social, Stefanie Hürtgen, Heiner Dribbusch sowie mit einem Vortrag von mir. Heute Abend stellt @stefanschmalz.bsky.social seine Thesen zum #Teslaismus vor. Seit dabei!
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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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Sozialwissenschaftler Claus Offe gestorben
Claus Offe prägte die Sozialwissenschaften mit scharfsinnigen Analysen und gesellschaftskritischen Perspektiven. Als Grenzgänger zwischen Soziologie und Politologie bleibt sein Werk wegweisend.
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
a bit late to the party, but Krugman's take on the Argentina drama is worth your time: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-is-tru...
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Why Is Trump Bailing Out Argentina?
This is about ideology and Trumpian fealty, not America’s interests
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Today is the day!!! Existential Politics is out in the world! Read about why we’re doing climate policy wrong (too focused on measuring emissions) & what we should do instead (focus on $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.
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Existential Politics
A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
No words
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
as someone working with the demographic affected by this on a daily basis, I see two ways out: either the AI bubble bursts and we get back to a pre-pandemic graduate job market (lol)- or soft neo-luddism becomes a political idea progressives should seriously consider www.ft.com/content/62e7...
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The graduate ‘jobpocalypse’: Where have all the entry-level jobs gone? | FT Working It
The promise of AI’s workplace abilities amid economic uncertainties have caused many companies to take pause
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/09/2025
Uruguay, y'all. I been sayin.
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He got an entire country running on clean energy. Can he do it again?
Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources.
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
good article by Wallace-Wells on the diminishing salience of climate politics and how geoeconomic competition is reshaping decarbonization: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
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It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.
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