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Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
We are delighted to see @MarietjeSchaake's The Tech Coup and @MWPalen's Pax Economica selected as two of the Economics Best Books of the Year in @FT! Thank you, @martinwolf_, for such a great selection for 2024: hubs.ly/Q02YVD140
ALT The Tech Coup by Marietje Schaake
ALT Pax Economica by Marc-William Palen
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
So looking forward to being in Exeter tomorrow to talk to history students about the collision of the Enlightenment, post-imperialism, cultural nationalism, you know, all the non-controversial stuff . . .
@exeterclio
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
Since global environmental governance might end today come and write its history with funding from @siculosvevo and @sUUstainability DEADLINE 15 Dec!. Workshop in June. Funding available!! @EnvHistJournal @envhistnow
Together with Dario Fazzi, I am organizing a workshop on International Environmental Governance. "The Montreal Moment: Ozone Depletion and the Rise of International Governance" (Middelburg, the Netherlands) June 5-6, 2025 networks.h-net.org/group/ann… ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 15 DEC 2024
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
And here is our program for the winter bloc...
Come and think with us about emerging research on globalization's fractures, maps and postcolonial imagination, the politics of despair, Russia's pursuit of greatness, crises of democracy, and anti-liberal internationalism! Tot ziens
“possibly the best single-volume history on the subject.” 🥳👇👇
The roundtable of my book, THE NUCLEAR CLUB, reviews by Sean Malloy, Nicholas Miller, @mbudjeryn & Shane Maddock, intro by Or Rabinowitz, is out today!
Nothing else of note is happening this week; so, you’ll have plenty of time to read all 26 pages (or just the intro)!
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
The roundtable of my book, THE NUCLEAR CLUB, reviews by Sean Malloy, Nicholas Miller, @mbudjeryn & Shane Maddock, intro by Or Rabinowitz, is out today!
Nothing else of note is happening this week; so, you’ll have plenty of time to read all 26 pages (or just the intro)!
RJISSF Roundtable 16-11: Jonathan Hunt’s The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam
“Hunt also explores the way in which the changed international climate in the era of decolonization provided openings and opportunities for smaller powers to leverage these negotiations” –Sean L. Malloy
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Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
News! I am delighted to have been promoted to Book Reviews Editor @Global_IH. I will commission, co-ordinate, & edit reviews, review articles, book forum special issues, & more. If you are interested in reviewing a title, do contact me at my GIH email: tandfonline.com/journals/rgi…
ALT Detail from a Woman Writing with a Quill by Adelaide Labille-Guiard, 1787
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
Anytown Joins Lobby For Fairer Deal For World’s Poor”: Mass Lobbies Against World Poverty in Thatcher’s Britain
imperialglobalexeter.com/202…
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
Professor @RichardToye from @exeterclio appears in this new documentary about #Churchill, showing on @netflix next month
youtube.com/watch?v=w5Ot8acA…
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
The @HDiplo roundtable, probably the high point of intellectual attention in the field of international history, of my first book, THE NUCLEAR CLUB, drops on November 4…
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
Visas for under-30s are "essential" to a Brexit reset, a leaked EU document says.
trib.al/C7c4qqz
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
A fascinating article by Daniel Immerwahr:
"All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States," Past & Present (2024)
academic.oup.com/past/articl…
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
There is no free trade candidate running in the US presidential election. But while Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both tout protectionism, they see it as a tool for very different goals, Mary Gallagher (@MaryGao) writes.
worldpoliticsreview.com/us-e…
‘The elements that jump out at me everywhere are poverty, decay, extreme nationalism and omnipresent religion that would be considered psychopathic cults in other places. Then there’s the gun craziness combined with aggressive paranoia and general immorality’
‘Things are truly scary’: the divided states of America – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
From the Nobel Prize for Econsplaining to why North Korea’s deployment of troops to Russia really matters, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
imperialglobalexeter.com/202…
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
🔴Brexit only works to destroy our prosperity and food security,
🔴It also hinders progress towards achieving the UK’s environmental goals, and directly impacts the choices available to consumers.
🔥So why does @Keir_Starmer want to make Tory Brexit do this to Britain?
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Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
IMF warns world to avoid global trade war bbc.in/3C0wndO
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
"With Age of Hope, Richard Toye has written an exceptionally fluent history of the Attlee government — and a pleasingly historical history at that." thecritic.co.uk/why-labour-h… courtesy of @TheCriticMag. #Twitterstorians #LabourParty #Labour #Attlee #BritishPolitics #BritishHistory
Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) retweeted
The key to revitalizing the world’s multilateral institutions is changing their governance to reflect the enormous changes in the configuration of the global economy over the past few decades, @GordonBrown and @elerianm explain. bit.ly/3UdvYuM
