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Robert Falkner

@robertfalkner.bsky.social

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

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W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" - Universität Münster Universität Münster bietet Stelle als W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" in Münster - jetzt bewerben!

🎓📢 We’re hiring!

Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability)

💼 Permanent position
📍 Münster, Germany
🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025

jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

04.08.2025 08:10 — 👍 31    🔁 38    💬 3    📌 3

I had an interesting conversation with @jfmorin.bsky.social and @cyncouette.bsky.social about their research on the governance of orbital debris. Please watch this video to find out more!

24.07.2025 07:31 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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College Lecturer (Career Development) in Politics (International Relations) at Pembroke College Recruiting now: College Lecturer (Career Development) in Politics (International Relations) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Always amazes me how little Oxford colleges are willing to pay for part-time lecturers. 3 contact hours per week, plus exam duties, admissions, admin and pastoral duties. But £8,284-£9,154 per annum??? Ahh, at least "some lunches and dinners free of charge..."

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA269/c...

23.07.2025 06:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great. I guess fake references are not a problem ... since nobody reads syllabi 🫢

21.07.2025 07:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

At least lectures are not written by AI tools (yet)...

21.07.2025 07:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Throwback to the Martin Wight Memorial Lecture, “Economic nationalism and global (dis)order,” delivered by Professor @robertfalkner.bsky.social and chaired by Dr Katerina Dalacoura.

✍️ Read the event report: bit.ly/4nPVK5i
🎥 Watch the full lecture here: bit.ly/40SnQmw
#AcademicSky #PoliSky

16.07.2025 14:52 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Brexit’s glorious future, back then … and now 🙄

(Source: Private Eye)

01.07.2025 12:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Senior Research Fellow – Energy Transition and Climate Mitigation - Chatham House Our environmental work requires someone with deep expertise in the energy transition, climate risks and their interaction with geopolitics and geoeconomics.

Chatham House is looking to hire a Senior Research Fellow on Energy Transition and Climate Mitigation. They are looking for deep expertise in the energy transition, climate risks & interaction with geo-politics/economics. Permanent, full-time, £90k annually.

careers.chathamhouse.org/jobs/6023298...

01.07.2025 11:24 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

Climate misinformation is now a major threat to the Net Zero transition. New report details role of online conspiracy theorists, corporations and think tanks.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

19.06.2025 14:26 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

One more week to apply.

18.06.2025 06:34 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks for coming to my talk at LSE. Sorry about the gloomy outlook on future international order. At least, I hope by clarifying future scenarios, we know what we are up against.

11.06.2025 09:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks to all who came to the LSE event last night. The topic of "economic nationalism and international (dis)order" provoked some excellent questions. Far too many...

In case you missed it, you can rewatch the video recording on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOxj...

10.06.2025 12:26 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Departmental Lecturers in International Relations at University of Oxford Explore an exciting academic career as a Departmental Lecturers in International Relations. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

Three lectureships in IR at Oxford - appointments are fixed for 5 years:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK960/d...

10.06.2025 12:21 — 👍 5    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2
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"We are happy to correct the record."

10.06.2025 11:27 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford.

One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods

We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

09.06.2025 12:11 — 👍 46    🔁 43    💬 1    📌 2

Congratulations to Jeffrey Sachs for again winning the John J. Mearsheimer Award For Demonstrating To People Who You Really Are

09.06.2025 06:06 — 👍 75    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 1

“If Goethe claimed towards the end of his life that every reasonable person is a moderate Liberal, then in our time one must say: Every reasonable person is a moderate Socialist.”
(Thomas Mann, 1950)

06.06.2025 06:42 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” 
Sir Isaiah Berlin, influential philosopher, Fellow of All Souls College at University of Oxford, founding President of Wolfson College, born #OTD 1909.
@ox.ac.uk @wolfsoncollege.bsky.social

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Sir Isaiah Berlin, influential philosopher, Fellow of All Souls College at University of Oxford, founding President of Wolfson College, born #OTD 1909. @ox.ac.uk @wolfsoncollege.bsky.social

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” 
Sir Isaiah Berlin, influential philosopher, Fellow of All Souls College at University of Oxford, founding President of Wolfson College, born #OTD 1909.
@ox.ac.uk @wolfsoncollege.bsky.social

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Sir Isaiah Berlin, influential philosopher, Fellow of All Souls College at University of Oxford, founding President of Wolfson College, born #OTD 1909. @ox.ac.uk @wolfsoncollege.bsky.social

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” 
Sir Isaiah Berlin, influential philosopher, Fellow of All Souls College at University of Oxford, founding President of Wolfson College, born #OTD 1909.
@ox.ac.uk @wolfsoncollege.bsky.social

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Sir Isaiah Berlin, influential philosopher, Fellow of All Souls College at University of Oxford, founding President of Wolfson College, born #OTD 1909. @ox.ac.uk @wolfsoncollege.bsky.social

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
Sir Isaiah Berlin, influential philosopher, Fellow of All Souls College at University of Oxford, founding President of Wolfson College, born #OTD 1909.
@ox.ac.uk @wolfsoncollege.bsky.social

06.06.2025 05:56 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Next week, Monday 9 June at 18.30, at LSE and online: ⬇️

06.06.2025 06:25 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Associate - Climate Politics (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)

Come work with us – on whatever you like!

One year to focus entirely on your own research project in a stimulating and supportive environment. Open to any aspect of #climatepolitics.
Apply within.

hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...
@hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiesustain.bsky.social

04.06.2025 13:16 — 👍 24    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 3

Astonishing to see how much of the anti-Net Zero campaign is based on outright lies ⬇️

02.06.2025 18:48 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Great book. Read it.

27.05.2025 20:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EU close to reaching climate goals despite green backlash Bloc is within one percentage point of meeting greenhouse gas emissions reduction target by 2030

We don't get many good news on the climate policy front, so this is all the more welcome...

www.ft.com/content/4abd...

26.05.2025 11:04 — 👍 96    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 0
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Join us for the Martin Wight Memorial Lecture 2024/25, which will be delivered by Professor @robertfalkner.bsky.social who will explore the rise of economic nationalism amidst growing geopolitical rivalry.

🎫 Find out more & register to attend online: bit.ly/4jkwe4N

#AcademicSky #PoliSky #LSEEvents

23.05.2025 15:17 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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No one has ever LinkedIn this hard.

I am CRINE.

21.05.2025 12:40 — 👍 4800    🔁 1105    💬 176    📌 253
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Join us for the Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture 2024/25, where Prof @georgelawson.bsky.social, Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social, and Prof Toby Dodge will explore the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics.

🎫 Find out more & register to attend online: bit.ly/4kh5uTy

16.05.2025 17:43 — 👍 12    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 2
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Economic nationalism and global (dis)order 6.30pm Mon 9 June | Robert Falkner | Free public event at LSE

Further details about the live and online event, on Monday 9 June at 18.30, are available here: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

16.05.2025 15:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The talk builds on my new book (with Barry Buzan) “The Market in Global International Society: An Englisch School Approach to International Political Economy” (OUP, 2025).

16.05.2025 15:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

‘geoeconomies’. I shall argue that revisiting Martin Wight’s insistence on the centrality of power in international politics helps dispel some the myths of economic globalisation, especially about the separation of global politics and economics that market liberalism is supposed to have achieved.

16.05.2025 15:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

... its intellectual and historical roots, its manifestations in different parts of the world, and its implications for international order.

Many economic commentators are expressing surprise at the intrusion of geopolitics into international economic relations and the global turn towards...

16.05.2025 15:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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