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Richard Joyce

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The week in review: @richardjoyce.bsky.social assesses Mark Carney’s speech at Davos, while Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale discuss the abundance agenda’s anti-tenancy blindspot. Plus, some hot new LPE pieces from around the web 🧵👇
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Weekly Roundup: June 5
Richard Joyce assesses Mark Carney's speech at Davos, while Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale discuss the abundance agenda's anti-tenancy blindspot. Plus, Tanzil Chowdhury on legislative supremacy in…
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Apart from abandoning the “as if” of the United States’ role as a reliable guarantor of the system, Carney fails to grapple with the various “as ifs” on which neoliberalism has long depended. lpeproject.org/blog/keeping...
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Keeping the (Neoliberal) Sign in the Window: Carney at Davos
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was widely lauded for declaring the rules-based international order effectively dead and urging middle powers to build "
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
At Davos, Mark Carney called on countries to abandon the fiction of the rules-based order. Yet as @richardjoyce.bsky.social argues, all political systems require acting "as if" their premises are true. The real question is which fictions we choose to live by, and which we’re willing to remake.
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Keeping the (Neoliberal) Sign in the Window: Carney at Davos
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was widely lauded for declaring the rules-based international order effectively dead and urging middle powers to build "
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Matt Scherer @matthewus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Check out my new piece for @lpeproject.bsky.social. My argument in a nutshell: Everyone in DC has been AI-pilled and sucked in by Silicon Valley's sci-fi fantasies--even policymakers who normally reject the self-serving narratives that emerge from corporate America. lpeproject.org/blog/the-rea...
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The Real AI Threat is the Bubble, not the Apocalypse
The most pressing AI-driven crisis is the overestimation of AI’s capabilities and impacts, which has produced a historically large speculative AI bubble. To safeguard against this economic catastrophe...
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It seems increasingly senseless to insist on a hard-and-fast distinction between military force and economic coercion, when the latter is enforced at the end of a gun. lpeproject.org/blog/a-tale-...
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A Tale of Two Seas
For much of the past century, international lawyers have sought to drive a wedge between “economic” matters and the use of military force. Recent events in the Caribbean and the Strait of Hormuz…
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Today, @jbentonheath.bsky.social argues that, on the high seas, we may be witnessing the death of one of the liberal order’s central myths: that sanctions are peaceful alternatives to war.
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A Tale of Two Seas
For much of the past century, international lawyers have sought to drive a wedge between “economic” matters and the use of military force. Recent events in the Caribbean and the Strait of Hormuz…
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Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Damning insider account of pressure on UK foreign office civil servants to alter advice and downplay war crimes and illegality of arms sales. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit the UK Foreign Office | Mark Smith
Ministers and senior officials protected arms deals facilitating death and horror in Gaza and Yemen. I urge my former colleagues to resist them, says one-time Foreign Office policy adviser Mark Smith
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 24/01/2025
Great reporting. The Israeli army said that most people killed in bombing a Beirut apartment block were Hezbollah. The BBC found that nearly all were in fact civilians, and a third were children. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The Trump-Vance embrace of Daniel Penny isn't just about "law and order" — it's white identity politics. A defense of a racial hierarchy where Penny can kill a Black man on a train and face no consequences. They're reminding us they want to preserve this status quo.
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Mitchell Plitnick @mjplitnick.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Democratic @booker.senate.gov poses with a wanted fugitive from justice for war crimes. When #Trump thumbs his nose at international law, and he will, remember this when #Democrats criticize him for it.
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Come join us! Yes, someone put me and @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social in charge of conference. The call for papers is out for ANZSIL 2025. Theme: "International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance". Submissions close 10 February* *before inevitable extensions anzsil.org.au/32nd-ANZSIL-...
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