New paper in ERSS
Energy Research and Social Science recently published my article ‘Green finance in the global energy transition: Actors, instruments, and politics‘. The paper surveys the main pillars of the global green finance architecture and discusses some key political trade-offs in governing green finance. It will hopefully be useful for colleagues in both research and teaching. The
ISRF Grant
I am fortunate to receive a generous grant by the Independent Social Research Foundation for my project titled ‘Antinomies of the environmental state: The state as market actor in the green transition’. A description of the project can be found here. The grant is part of ISRF’s Early Career Fellowship Award scheme. It allows me
New paper in RIPE
Matti Ylönen, Ringa Raudla and I just published a mixed-methods paper on new corporate practices of secrecy-seeking capital in Review of International Political Economy. We combine interview and industry-seminar observational data with Estonian registry and board member data to explain these newly emerging practices and provide a building block for a new generation of tax
Two new papers out
Last month, two new co-authored papers were published by Competition & Change and New Political Economy: with Adam Dixon and Jan Fichtner: Varieties of state capital: What does foreign state-led investment do in a globalized world? Competition and Change – Link with Adam Dixon: Decarbonising states as owners. New Political Economy (online first) – Link Both articles are open access
Volume on geoeconomics and Europe out now
Together with Adam Dixon and Imogen Liu, I co-edited the volume The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World in Palgrave’s IPE series. The book contains great chapters from great colleagues, many even open access. You can find the book here. The (open access) introductory chapter is here. Most Unis will have access
New paper @CJIP
A new paper, co-authored with Adam Dixon, is now out in the Chinese Journal of International Politics, titled ‘Is the China Effect Real? Ideational Change and the Political Contestation of Chinese State-Led Investment in Europe‘. The paper deals with the drivers and mechanisms of the protectionist backlash in Europe in the face of rising Chinese
New paper @Contemporary Politics
Recently, Contemporary Politics published the introduction to our special issue on the ‘new’ state capitalism. You can read the open access article here. Watch out for the exciting papers that are part of this special issue. Some of the are already online, the rest will follow soon. Check the CP website for updates.
New paper @Business & Politics
Together with Jouke Huijzer, Javier Garcia-Bernardo and Diliara Valeeva, we have a new paper on business power and the Dutch dividend tax debate out in Business & Politics. The paper is open access and can be found here: Link. A summary thread on Twitter can be found here: Link.
New Interview at Global Policy
Recently I’ve been interviewed for the #ScholarSpotlight series at Global Policy. You can find the interview and podcast if you click here.
New publication in RIPE
Last week, a new paper of mine was published online first in the Review of International Political Economy. ‘State capital in a geoeconomic world: mapping state-led foreign investment in the global political economy’ is open access and available here. The paper aims to advance our understanding of the consequences of the rise of states as