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New Geoformations Research Publication :
A New Brussels Consensus? Qatargate and the (Re)articulation of EU International Development Cooperation Governance

By: 📄 Susan Murphy & Cian McMahon (2025)

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2025.2585304
#Research #EU #Governance #Development #Geoformations

No high-level US representatives will go to UN climate talks, Trump officials say Decision to stay away from Cop30 meeting in Brazil underscores administration’s hostility to climate action

As the US have blocked much progress on important areas like loss and damage over many years, I think their absence creates an opportunities for new collaborations and deepening solidarities in a new international landscape with new possibilities post US dominance www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mass killings reported in Sudanese city seized by paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces accused of killing more than 2,000 unarmed civilians in El Fasher in recent days

Genocide unfolding again in Darfur, famine, mass displacement, yet international indifference. More mefia coverage Trump’s latest insult and nasty rant. Shameful.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Another episode of the muppet show at the Whitehouse. Time to look up and change channels instead of feeding this fiasco

At a time of extreme profits… yet another indication of the slow death of neoliberal capitalism where profits are hoarded by the richest and reinvestment rapidly becomes a thing of the past

Patrick Freyne: Returning home from Chad, I feel there’s a glitch in western empathy The Sudan war is the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster, but it seems our human compassion is taken up by other conflicts

Beautifully crafted piece. Thank you, Patrick, for caring.
Returning home from Chad, I feel there’s a glitch in western empathy

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Ah be gentle…. sure he’s only a wee ‘un …. And he is excited and honoured…. Sure what harm could it do……

Doh!

you couldn't make this image up... face after face of old white privileged men.... be cool and get yippy... give me a break... these people should be charged with crimes against humanity

Does anyone actually trust the figures on inflation and labour rates coming out of the US at the moment? I have no trust I am afraid.... the figures are just too convenient for Trumpism and seem very far removed from the destruction being wrecked the US and global economy....

Any guesses on why no-one told Trump that tariffs on Heard and McDonald Islands are unlikely to yield results? Perhaps fear? Or maybe the boys need a few more years in school - perhaps some lessons in economic geography might help? Another self imposed hit to US hegemony..... evaporating with speed

Who would have thought it… degrowth and deglobalisation driven by US trade policy. Now watch the efforts of others to decouple from the US economy and likely growth of China EU relations. Truly extraordinary times.

Who would have thought it… degrowth and deglobalisation driven by US trade policy. Now watch the efforts of others to decouple from the US economy and likely growth of China EU relations. Truly extraordinary times.

Development Studies Association on LinkedIn: #callforpapers Are you researching or have thought leadership on aid and its future and development policy in the Trump era? Two timely calls for papers and abstracts below.…

www.linkedin.com/posts/develo...

Abby Stoddard on LinkedIn: Grim but necessary to track. We are updating this and will keep posting as… Grim but necessary to track. We are updating this and will keep posting as the numbers go up.

www.linkedin.com/posts/abbyst...

Closing date for applications is coming up.... 24th February.... if you are interested in studying the effects of rising authoritarianism and USAID cuts on development governance, shrinking civil society spaces and undermining of international solidarities

Authoritarian leaders in former Soviet bloc seize on Musk’s USAid crackdown Region’s autocrats join in persecution of agency that provided aid and helped to build up civil society in 1990s

The ripple effects of USAID cuts.... undermining civil society and international solidarity....central to our studies at @geoformations.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Research Assistant in Geography – Geoformations Research Assistant in Geography Applications are invited for a research assistant to join the GEOFORMATIONS research team. GEOFORMATIONS examines the geographies of dynamic governance assemblages in d...

We are hiring! Geoformations are currently inviting applications for a Research Assistant in Development Geography. Closing date Feb 24th. All information at geoformations.eu/jobs/research-assistant-in-geography/

COP29 Open Letter — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative Letter to world leaders calling for global plan to phase out fossil fuels: Scientists have issued a stark warning for decades: extracting fossil fuels threatens everything we love.

Great to see so many activists, artists, actors, scientists & faith leaders call for a #FossilFuelTreaty during #COP29

Including @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social & many others

Join them: fossilfueltreaty.org/cop29-open-l...

@eadi.bsky.social really excellent conference in beautiful Krakow.... looking forward to the next opportunity to continue these important debates and discussions on the future of development studies and theory at the current conjuncture

@geoformations.bsky.social. Hi there. It would be great to connect!

For the first time in its history, we could be looking at a genuinely rightwing European Union | Alberto Alemanno Ursula von der Leyen knows that her new commission will need support from the kind of hard-right parties it once swore to shun, says Alberto Alemanno of HEC Paris

If we want to avoid the slippery slope to Trumpland now might be a good time to re-read Nancy Fraser on progressive and reactionary neoliberalism.... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku

(Almost out of)Time for radical rethink of climate action governance structures and process www.theguardian.com/environment/...

will take me time to figure this out... any lessons for new and inexperienced users are most welcome! It is over a year since I left twitter and set up this account but never really used it...

@drconorb.bsky.social.... hi there - reactivated my bluesky account!
Looking forward to interacting...

Truly excellent and timely contribution…. American democracy is in peril. And racism will be the sledgehammer that destroys it

Industry happy to accept public subsidies but no care for public good and welfare

Industry acts to head off regulation on PFAS pollution from semiconductors

The Guardian view on Afghanistan’s gender apartheid: don’t embolden the Taliban