Thomas Stubbs @thomstubbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026📢 New call for papers in Globalization and Health: From Aid Dependency to Health Sovereignty? We invite work on debt, fiscal pressures, donor retrenchment, aid fragmentation, health financing & shifting power in global health. link.springer.com/collections/... 102
Reposted by Thomas StubbsRecourse @re-course.org · 11/09/2026One week to go 🌍 On 17 Sep, join us for a discussion on how IMF lending can shape climate policy, debt and extractive dependence – drawing on research and experiences from Tanzania, DRC, Ecuador, Pakistan and Egypt. Register 🔗 tinyurl.com/IMFlending 012
Reposted by Thomas StubbsAlessandra Romani @aleromani.bsky.social · 31/07/2026📢 NEW article with @thomstubbs.bsky.social in @intlinteractions.bsky.social on the Global Financial Safety Net. Open access: doi.org/10.1080/0305... 🧵 A thread: 113
Reposted by Thomas StubbsAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Its a risk-off in global financial markets Energy prices are soaring, as are fossil fuel companies But global equity markets are down European stocks down far more than US ones coz of energy import dependence. Inflation up -> rates to go up -> so Bond markets are down. bsky.app/profile/did:...ft.comStocks and bonds tumble as widening Middle East war rattles marketsOil surges above $85 a barrel and European natural gas prices almost double this week as conflict escalates across region 1217
Reposted by Thomas StubbsRecourse @re-course.org · 02/03/20262026 could reshape accountability in public finance 🔎 Several international financial institutions are reviewing their accountability mechanisms & safeguard policies. Decisions made this year will shape access to remedy & standards for years to come. New analysis 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-c... 034
Reposted by Thomas StubbsBen O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Thread 👇 on a new article by @profmiskimmon.bsky.social and I, Strategic narrative: its origins and evolution, its connection to public diplomacy, and some future paths. Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comStrategic narrative: its origins and evolution, its connection to public diplomacy, and some future paths - Place Branding and Public DiplomacyPlace Branding and Public Diplomacy - 143
Thomas Stubbs @thomstubbs.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Our new book — Greening the International Monetary Fund (Cambridge University Press, 2025) — examines how climate change has become embedded within the IMF’s operations, and what this means for global economic governance. 📖 Open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...doi.orgGreening the International Monetary FundCambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - Greening the International Monetary Fund 162
Reposted by Thomas StubbsFederico Sibaja @federicosibaja.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The US Treasury has put the ongoing IMF Surveillance review at the top of the agenda as they want to stop the Fund’s work on climate. But what’s the IMF’s track record since the 2021 Climate Strategy? Read more in our new @re-course.org report: bit.ly/IMFsurveillance 🧵1/9bit.lyIMF surveillance and climate action — Report by RecourseReport: IMF surveillance falls short in addressing climate threats 144
Reposted by Thomas StubbsRecourse @re-course.org · 07/10/2025Only 4 years ago, the IMF recognised that climate change poses risks to macroeconomic stability. It cannot be ignored. Our new report shows how and why the #IMF can't give up on climate, with recommendations for its Surveillance review. 👉 bit.ly/IMFsurveilla... #IMFmeetings 021
Reposted by Thomas StubbsIsabel Ortiz GSJ @isabelortiz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Read my article with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr on #FinancingForDevelopment - Financing for whom? @ipsunbureau.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social #FfD4 #EndAusterity #UniversalSocialProtection #RighttoSocialSecurity #Inequality www.ipsnews.net/2025/04/fina...ipsnews.netFinancing for Whom? The Financing for Development Summit Must Address Social DimensionsThe Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) will bring world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how to finance a better future for all. Yet, in prac... 013
Reposted by Thomas StubbsUofG School of Social & Political Sciences @uofgsps.bsky.social · 27/03/2025You may have seen @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social quoted in the media talking about the implications of the Chancellor's Spring Statement. He's part of a group of experts who have warned that welfare cuts could cause more deaths in @bmj.com @uofgsocsci.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...gla.ac.ukExperts issue warnings on social security cuts in Spring StatementUniversity of Glasgow academics have joined leading public health experts in warning of likely consequence of cuts to social security in the Chancellor’s Spring Statement. 054
Reposted by Thomas StubbsMarwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 28/02/2025"That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital" —Noam Chomsky And then it gets worse. 095
Reposted by Thomas StubbsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...globalnews.caHow a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.caIn 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic. 511299547821
Reposted by Thomas Stubbspw-portal @pw-portal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Verschärft der IWF durch verordnete Austerität die Ungleichheit? @akentikelenis.bsky.social & @thomstubbs.bsky.social präsentieren die bislang umfassendste empirische Analyse der sozialen Auswirkungen von IWF-Krediten. Henning Schmidtke vom GIGA Institut lobt das Buch als „Meilenstein“. poliskypw-portal.dePortal für Politikwissenschaft – Alexandros Kentikelenis, Thomas Stubbs: A Thousand Cuts. Social Protection in the Age of Austerity 012
Reposted by Thomas StubbsBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 01/02/2025The government’s overall Oh well that’s how it is now attitude when one of the main pillars of your economy crumbles right there for everyone to see is quite difficult to comprehend.theguardian.comQuarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfallsUp to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring 35022
Reposted by Thomas StubbsRosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Each for very different reasons, these were my fave books of 2024 📚 Happy new year friends ✨🍻 ps. Emma’s book (on the political economy of care & its value, second most sold in DK last year) will be out in English in Spring 2025. Keep an eye out 🧐 1274
Reposted by Thomas StubbsLisa Dellmuth @lisadellmuth.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Here's my International Relations starter pack - just answer this post if you want to be included! go.bsky.app/GHjHQu3 #polisky #internationalrelations #econsky #internationalpolitics 8414341
Reposted by Thomas StubbsAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Lula at UN: “African countries borrow at rates up to 8 times higher than Germany and 4 times higher than the United States. It’s a Marshall Plan in reverse, in which the poorest finance the richest.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mar... I presented at G20 Rio YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY6Z... 528198
Reposted by Thomas StubbsPaul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024For those who missed it, my Substack has gone live, and I expect to be posting several times a week. Today's entry is (almost) non-political; tomorrow's won't be 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...open.substack.comWhy Does U.S. Technology Rule?Maybe it's just in the right place 331054157
Reposted by Thomas StubbsPaul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead 1269279256907
Reposted by Thomas StubbsJon Sward @jonsward.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Re-upping this with more additions of civil society advocates and academics working on IFIs, including @katemac.bsky.social, @isabelortiz.bsky.social, @akentikelenis.bsky.social… and many more go.bsky.app/CnXtPpK 0127
Reposted by Thomas StubbsCharles Knox-Vydmanov @knoxvydmanov.bsky.social · 22/11/2024A wave of new social protection people joining overnight and this morning! Added to this starter pack go.bsky.app/FP9qJZV I am also adding the same people to this list which you can pin as a feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... (or you can just make your own custom one!) 62011
Reposted by Thomas StubbsPaul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024So, to everyone who thought the Bessent pick meant that Trump would be reasonable on economic policy: I hope you enjoyed your vacation from reality 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/b...nytimes.comTrump Plans Tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico That Could Cripple TradeThe president-elect said that he would impose the across-the-board tariffs on Day 1 and that they would stay in place until Canada, Mexico and China halted the flow of drugs and migrants. 25861301701
Reposted by Thomas StubbsAdam Hayes @adam-hayes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Economic Sociology expansion pack! Need to add others or add yourself? Do it! go.bsky.app/Tdf2TZ2 114014
Reposted by Thomas StubbsBecky Ray @becky-ray.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Hiya Bluesky! I'm new here, but this is the kind of thing I think about: climate justice requires local environmental justice, which requires an end to austerity, which requires debt justice. Can we do all of that? Yes! #COP16 #COP29 www.bu.edu/gdp/2024/10/...bu.eduFrom Vicious to Virtuous: Understanding and Re-imagining the Relationships between Debt, Climate and Nature at COP16 | Global Development Policy Center 0153
Reposted by Thomas StubbsLen Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · 13/11/2024All IPE scholars!!! 👀 15th Annual Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) workshop. Adelaide University / Flinders University, February 6-7 2025 Full call here: www.ppesydney.net/2025-aipen-w... Paper/panel proposals to Len Seabrooke, lse.ioa@cbs.dk, by 30 November 2024.ppesydney.net2025 AIPEN Workshop: Call for papers - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)15th Annual Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Workshop Adelaide University / Flinders University, February 6-7 2025 The world economy is increasingly challenged by wicked pro... 0911
Thomas Stubbs @thomstubbs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Start pack of Royal Holloway Politics & International Relations academic staff and PhD students! go.bsky.app/EyuS68dgo.bsky.appRoyal Holloway Politics & International RelationsJoin the conversation 3105
Reposted by Thomas StubbsBecky Ray @becky-ray.bsky.social · 21/11/2024The work of Kentikelenis & @thomstubbs.bsky.social on IMF & austerity is unparalleled. For a brief intro, check out this webinar, where I was honored to spend an hour interviewing them about this impressive new book. www.youtube.com/live/lL7NwQV...youtube.comYouTubeShare your videos with friends, family, and the world 041
Reposted by Thomas StubbsKarina Patrício @kpatricio.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Bluesky is growing so quickly—it is hard to keep track of everyone joining! Are there any new sovereign debt nerds here I might have missed in this starter pack I have put together? go.bsky.app/Cw8ufrd 74717
Reposted by Thomas StubbsRicky Clark @rickyclark.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I've seen so many great starter packs, but I've yet to encounter one on int'l organizations and cooperation. So, I made one. It is no doubt incomplete, but I hope you find it helpful nonetheless. Feel free to circulate and, if you have suggestions on who to add, send them my way! go.bsky.app/RbHqH38 5216860
Thomas Stubbs @thomstubbs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024𝐀 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐭𝐬: 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 Kentikelenis and I document the health and social impacts of 40 years of IMF-mandated austerity policies on the Global South. Available from Oxford University Press: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 030