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The consequences of the illegal shutdown of USAID:

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💯 the U.S. needs tech transfer from China in EV batteries, and should pursue policies that make that possible rather than reflexively blocking such inward investments

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I signed this open letter to Congress urging restoration of life-saving foreign aid alongside hundreds of other experts of aid, national security, and international affairs. Much of my work speaks to the effectiveness of aid as soft power; we urge Congress to act now docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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With aid frozen, and some climate aid unlikely to return, experts warn that extremist groups could exploit the climate crisis to recruit struggling pastoral and farming communities.

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“As Mr. Trump alienates our neighbors through threats and ultimatums, Beijing stands ready to step into the void,” writes Eric Jacobstein, who served in the Biden administration.

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So grateful for my supportive colleagues @artslettersnd.bsky.social @notredame.bsky.social ☘️

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PUBLICATION ALERT: New book by Kellogg faculty fellow Ricky Clark - "Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance" (Cambridge University Press). More: bit.ly/4b8hdRa @rickyclark.bsky.social

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IR Book of the Week! "Cooperative Complexity" by @rickyclark.bsky.social. International Organizations facilitate cooperation between states...and increasingly other international organizations. Such "scaling" would seem efficient, but that's often not the case.

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My book, Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance, is out today! You can order it from @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social for 20% off with the discount code CLARK24. The purchase link and a short thread on the book follow 🧵

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Interactive map of USAID agriculture cut impacts on farms, ports across the US storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/29fc...

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Did the Browns assume the form of the Chiefs?

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This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

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How do leaders in countries that borrow funds from the IMF respond to backlash from their citizens about this support? Authors @rickyclark.bsky.social and @anna-meyerrose.bsky.social answer this question in their January @worldpolitics.bsky.social article muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Our amazing colleague, Andrew Natsios, who is a former USAID administrator, on Elon and the DOGE’s attack on USAID 👇

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Some IOs - like the IMF, UNSC, and the WHO - group small states together in 'proxy' systems, while powerful states speak for themselves. In new (open access!) work with @rickyclark.bsky.social and Ayse Kaya in @the-peio.bsky.social, we focus on the case of climate change in the IMF. 1/3

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In their January @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, @rickyclark.bsky.social and @anna-meyerrose.bsky.social discuss IMF conditionality. Have a listen to their Abstract on.soundcloud.com/j5HQU8PzFeJj...

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In his takeover of the U.S. government, Elon Musk has prioritized going after programs most despised by Putin. (He has also taken down the USAID website so that you cannot read its reports.)

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Shutting down USAID or folding it into State would be both unconstitutional and an own goal of ridiculous proportions. Aid serves humanitarian and geopolitical interests. It saves lives and helps the US get what it wants abroad. We truly live in the dumbest timeline

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1/8 The claim that "the World Bank is bankrolling economic growth in China" does not make any sense. China is actually an important source of income for the World Bank. A short thread 🧵 nypost.com/2025/01/29/b...

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check out that chyron. this is where we're at.

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So no foreign aid, no cancer research, no healthcare for the elderly, no school lunches for poor children, no grants for disabled children, no housing support for veterans, no support for national parks, and dirtier drinking water?

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Americans are about to find out the very hard way what we have denied or ignored since Ronald Reagan & his juvenile talking points won the day in the 1980s: that <every> set of societal institutions in 🇺🇸 depends on the state & massive amounts of federal money regularly flowing through the economy.

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A mass tragedy is more likely in the US given the gutting of key informational capacity. You cannot monitor disease, natural disaster or even foreign threat without funding and staffing of federal government agencies. You have to let people do their jobs without fear.

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Check out my new working paper with amazing ND grad students Bill Kakenmaster and Ben Francis We show, among other things, that climate attribution among R House candidates depends on district-level climate vulnerability and fossil fuel employment reliance osf.io/preprints/os...

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Notre Dame is hiring a tenured professor studying democracy, broadly defined. Applications from any subfield of political science are welcome. It is such an awesome place to work. Please apply! apply.interfolio.com/159556

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I thought they might have learned their lesson the last time they pulled this shit—when they realized ceding incumbent international organizations to our putative "great-power rivals" wasn't such a great idea. But why let national interests get in the way of right-wing bugaboos and Trump's narcism?

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The January @worldpolitics.bsky.social is live! It includes articles by @brentonkenkel.bsky.social, @emielawad.bsky.social & Scott F Abramson; @isabelmperera.bsky.social & Trevor Brown; Florian Grotz & Till Weber; @rickyclark.bsky.social & Anna Meyerrose; & Michael L. Ross. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54152

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You can pre-order my book, Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance, out next month with @cambridgeup.bsky.social, for 20% off with the discount code CLARK24! See the attached flyer and the CUP link below. www.cambridge.org/9781009563895

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So excited that my book, Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance, will be out next month @cambridgeup.bsky.social. In it, I explore how and when IOs work together rather than competing for members' business. You can pre-order it here: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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So excited that my book, Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance, will be out next month @cambridgeup.bsky.social. In it, I explore how and when IOs work together rather than competing for members' business. You can pre-order it here: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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That game took years off my life ☘️

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Following the example of @rickyclark.bsky.social and @lisadellmuth.bsky.social I have put together an International Political Economy starter pack. Please answer this post if you want to be included in a second starter pack! (I exhausted all 150 slots for this pack 😅) go.bsky.app/JQeggfC

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Counterpoint: we should resurrect the wooly mammoth simply because it would be cool as hell

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