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Robert Falkner

@robertfalkner.bsky.social
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Professor of International Relations at LSE & Academic Dean of TRIUM Global EMBA. Global environmental politics, international political economy & global business. www.robertfalkner.org

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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The book is published by Polity Press and will be available by the end of this week. Use "FAL30" to get a 30% discount if you order online at: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Green Political Economy
Green Political Economy, Addressing the world's major environmental threats – from climate change to species loss and the destruction of ecosystems – is not only an ecological or economic ...
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking forward to presenting my new book "Green Political Economy" at Stockholm University on Thursday 24 September. Thanks to Karin Bäckstrand for inviting me to take part in her EPPLE seminar series: www.su.se/english/divi... @politybooks.bsky.social
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Looking forward to launching my new book "Green Political Economy" at Stockholm University, Thursday 24 September, 10:00-11:30. Join us if you're in town. Thanks to Karin Bäckstrand for inviting me. The book will be out by then: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... Event: www.su.se/english/divi...
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Thanks, Mat, for all your help with this project. Hope you like the rest of the book. Your publications are of course all across the different chapters from the market to states, energy, finance...
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Thanks, @benbraun.eurosky.social. Enjoy your teaching free time, and thanks again for helping me with this project!
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
...and 🙏to the colleagues who helped improve the text: @cbrandi.bsky.social @benbraun.eurosky.social @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social Peter Dauvergne @hochstet.bsky.social Eric Helleiner @abbyinnes.bsky.social @jonasmeckling.bsky.social @peternewell.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @kylat.bsky.social
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm grateful to the editors and production managers at Polity, who've done an amazing job turning the raw text into an appealing book. Many thanks to @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social and Harriet Bulkeley for their generous endorsements...
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
More good news 🎉: you can get a 30% discount if you order the book directly from Polity Press. Just go to politybooks.com and use code FAL30. Here is more info on the book: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📖 Just over a month to go until my new book, Green Political Economy, is published by @politybooks.bsky.social. Available in paperback, hardback and ebook, you can get it in the UK by late September, and in the US by early December 2026.
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Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️‍🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
MORE JOBS! The Dept of Politics is looking to recruit up to SEVEN new lecturers, with five as T&S and two as T&R. Any field is great, but we have gaps in British Politics, Theory, Public Pol, Comparative. The ad for the T&S can be found here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW437/l... @livunipol.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Politics and/or International Relations - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
Apply now for the Lecturer in Politics and/or International Relations - Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Sarah Bowen @sarahkbowen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I am so shocked and saddened by this news. Raúl Pacheco-Vega was such a generous and kind person, supporting and offering his wisdom to so many people, far and near. This is just awful. Que descanse en paz.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
📚My new book has a cover! To be published in September 2026. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
And join us for a debate on the future of trade policy and the international trade regime on 20 May 2026, 18.30-20.00, at @lseevents.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/events/trade-2
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Trade under strain | Interdisciplinary panel
6:30pm Weds 20 May | Robert Falkner, Boram Lee, Stephanie J. Rickard, L. Alan Winters, Thomas Sampson | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
You can download the paper at ppr.lse.ac.uk/articles/10....
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Geopolitics and Tariffs: An International Relations Perspective | LSE Public Policy Review
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
... the weaponisation of economic interdependence and the anti-globalisation shift in Western public opinion, create the conditions for trade tariffs to remain high beyond Trump's time in the White House. The key question is how smaller powers can respond to the weaponisation of tariffs.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
...marks not merely a revival of economic protectionism, but a qualitative shift towards tariffs as a tool of geopolitical strategy. Trump, the self-declared "Tariff Man", is clearly a key factor in this story. However, the combination of a deepening US-China rift, ...
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
📚My new paper on "Geopolitics and Tariffs: An International Relations Perspective" has just been published in the @lsepress.bsky.social journal Public Policy Review's latest special issue. In this paper, I argue that the dramatic escalation of tariffs under Trump 2.0 ...
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The return of tariffs to US foreign economic policy isn’t simply a turn to protectionism. It's a weaponisation of trade as geopolitical strategy. @robertfalkner.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social argues that the impact of tariffs will linger long beyond Donald Trump's presidency @lsebr.bsky.social
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Donald Trump’s tariff wars are not just about trade - LSE Business Review
This is not trade policy in any conventional sense. It is economic coercion for geopolitical purposes.
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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
As Donald Trump lands in China to meet Xi Jinping, @robertfalkner.bsky.social argues that although Mr Trump’s specific world view inspired the tariff wars, their impact will be felt long after he has left the White House. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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Donald Trump’s tariff wars are not just about trade - LSE Business Review
This is not trade policy in any conventional sense. It is economic coercion for geopolitical purposes.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Over time, as other think tanks took on the green agenda and universities ramped up their policy-oriented research, environmental policy research became a crowded field, eventually diluting the programme's influence.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
If anything, the confluence of geopolitics and sustainability issues in today's world only serves to underline the importance of researching global climate & environmental issues through an international affairs lens.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Over time, as other think tanks took on the green agenda and universities ramped up their policy-oriented research, environmental policy research became a crowded field, eventually diluting the programme's influence.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Over time, the CH environmental programme broadened its agenda to include many other global environmental issues, from ozone depletion and trade/environmental conflicts to deforestation, biosafety, and resource management.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
... it also had lasting influence over UK and EU climate policy in the 1990s, helping to shift it towards greater acceptance of carbon pricing schemes. Michael Grubb's early research stands out in this regard.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
In this paper, I review the history of environmental and climate related research at Chatham House, from the late 1980s till today, while trying to assess its impact. Not only was Chatham House the first international affairs think tank to put climate change permanently on its research agenda...
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
You can access the book chapter online at academic.oup.com/book/62522/c... or on my personal website: www.robertfalkner.org
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Chatham House and the global climate crisis
Abstract. Chatham House was the first major international affairs think tank to put environmental issues firmly on its research agenda. From the late-1980s
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My new paper on "Chatham House and the global climate crisis" has just been published, as part of a wonderful collection of historical reflections that chart the first century of the London based think tank otherwise known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
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LSE International Relations @lseir.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Congratulations to our Emeritus Professor Michael Cox and Former Montague Burton Professor Christopher Hill, who have edited the newly released book, Chatham House: The First Hundred Years👏 The book includes contributions from Dr Peter Wilson and Professor @robertfalkner.bsky.social. bit.ly/4w9QHAZ
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LSE International Relations @lseir.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Throwback to our “Decentering Emissions: How the Developing World Can Shape the Climate Change Agenda” event with Dr @ndubash.bsky.social, Dr @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social, and Professor @robertfalkner.bsky.social. ✍️ Read the event report: bit.ly/429RYdh 🎥 Watch the full lecture here: bit.ly/4cfGlrp
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Decentering emissions: how the developing world can shape the climate change agenda – student event report - LSE Department of International Relations
Report by a student on a public event from the Department of International Relations at LSE.
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dgweb121.bsky.social @dgweb121.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Packed rooms for GEP 25th anniversary panels at ISA this week. @gepjournal.bsky.social @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social @kmoneill.bsky.social @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @devoncantwell.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @robertfalkner.bsky.social @bethdesombre.bsky.social
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Global Environmental Politics @gepjournal.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
History is key to the future of GEP, per @robertfalkner.bsky.social. Find out why in this clip of a longer conversation with Cristina Inoue—and in Falkner's 25th Anniversary Special Issue paper, "Historicizing Global Environmental Politics": direct.mit.edu/glep/article... youtu.be/HsI8xFmqMC0
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Robert Falkner on why history is key to the future of global environmental politics
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Suhrkamp Verlag @suhrkamp.de · 14/03/2026
Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
You can access my paper here www.cambridge.org/core/books/a... Alternatively, the pre-publication version is available on my website: www.robertfalkner.org
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World Society (Chapter 5) - The Big Picture as an Approach to the Study of International Relations
The Big Picture as an Approach to the Study of International Relations - March 2026
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We'll be launching the book at a LSE Department of International Relations event in late October 2026 - watch out for future announcements.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It was fun "thinking with and beyond" Barry in this paper, having written with him over the last few years on the normative evolution of international society, the rise of environmental stewardship and the vicissitudes of the market norm in international relations.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Expertly edited by @ritafloyd.bsky.social and Laust Schouenborg, the volume brings together a stellar group of IR scholars who engage with Barry Buzan's Big Picture theorising and his many contributions to the development of International Relations theory.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New publication! 📚 My new paper "World Society: From Analytical Dustbin to Master Concept of International Relations?” has been published in "The Big Picture as an Approach to the Study of International Relations Thinking With and Beyond Barry Buzan", published by @universitypress.cambridge.org
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dgweb121.bsky.social @dgweb121.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the journal Global Environmental Politics with a special issue. All articles are free to read for the first 60 days @gepjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...
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Volume 26 Issue 1 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press
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Global Environmental Politics @gepjournal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.
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Volume 26 Issue 1 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The anti-Net Zero campaign reaches new heights of disinformation. This from the latest edition of Private Eye deserves wider circulation…
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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This was a brilliant talk by @ndubash.bsky.social - I will be thinking a lot about his conclusions on the implications to re-orienting climate policy around self-determination. Thanks to @robertfalkner.bsky.social for organizing, @gsos-lse.bsky.social for hosting! Podcast recording will be up soon.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Today ⬇️
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LSE International Relations @lseir.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
📢 Don’t miss our upcoming event with @gsos-lse.bsky.social, “Decentering emissions: how the developing world can shape the #climatechange agenda,” featuring @ndubash.bsky.social, @robertfalkner.bsky.social, and @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social. 🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/internationa... #AcademicSky #PoliSky
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Come and join us on Wed 21 Jan, 18:30, at LSE for a public lecture by Prof Navroz Dubash (Princeton) on "Decentering Emissions: How the developing world can shape the climate change agenda." With a response from our discussant @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
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Decentering Emissions: How the developing world can shape the climate change agenda
6.30pm Wed 21 Jan | Navroz K Dubash | Free public event at LSE
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
New in @gepjournal.bsky.social: "Historicizing Global Environmental Politics." The article is part of the journal's 25th anniversary special issue, which is forthcoming later this year. direct.mit.edu/glep/article... @lseir.bsky.social
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
New in @gepjournal.bsky.social: "Historicizing Global Environmental Politics." The article is part of the journal's 25th anniversary special issue, which is forthcoming later this year. direct.mit.edu/glep/article... @lseir.bsky.social
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
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Robert Falkner @robertfalkner.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
As the winter solstice approaches, here is a watercolour painting by Mehr Khan to brighten our dark days.
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Martin Bayly @mjbayly.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
On Wednesday evening we're hosting @jelenasubotic.bsky.social at @lseir.bsky.social to talk about her fantastic new book 'The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution'. It's free to attend, but registration is necessary. Please come along! Details below...
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Global Environmental Politics @gepjournal.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
GEP's Special Issue on "The North–South Politics of Global Just Transitions" is now out, guest edited by Chuks Okereke, Ken Mbeva, Reuben Makomere. Several articles are available open access, including the introduction. Check them out at the link below! direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...
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Volume 25 Issue 4 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press
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