Paul Beaumont

My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.

"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people."

Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF.

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We’re c.2004 in the crypto-banking nexus. Everyone thinks they’re a stable genius & society is hailing them as such. But eventually the tide will go out & the inevitable Buffett moment will be incredibly ugly & costly. It always is. Over & over & over again. We keep forgetting what we’ve learned.

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I wasn't able to pick up the award in person, hence the picture of me holding it next to a tree looking pleased.

You can find out more about the book - and if you have the money and the urge, buy it - here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The prize committee described the book as a “fascinating, well-researched, and beautifully written contribution that speaks well to our section’s goal of highlighting the role ideas play in shaping politics across borders.”

🐳 🥳 Happy news to share! My book - The Grammar of Status Competition - has been awarded the Jeffrey Friedman Best Book Award: The APSA's Knowledge, Ideas and Politics section book prize. This is the first - and perhaps last! - academic award I have ever received, so it means a lot. 1/4

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📢 The volume "Governing Nature and the Making of World Order", edited by the great team of @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @lucasdopaes.bsky.social, is out now. And it's OA.
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An excellent combination Matt! I would just add that the book is very flexible: pairs well with all known liquids. Thanks for your outstanding contribution! It is consistent with your much appreciated dedication to the project that you have gotten ahead of the editors on the promotion! :)

If climate finance only flows to what’s bankable, how do we fund what's actually necessary? My research contributes to the boon in evidence showing how derisking locks governments into private finance-oriented & ineffective transitions - leaving essential but unbankable sectors behind

🎯 Open research positions!

We’re hiring three Postdoctoral candidates/Senior Researchers for Navigator – an ERC-funded project exploring how country performance indicators shape global governance.

📍Oslo | 🕐 Initial 2-year contract

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Those crazy hippies at the Financial Times are at it again. Why are our governments so afraid to face reality? who are they actually being led by? certainly not their voters.

Very happy to see my piece "The power of recognition: rethinking the instrumentality of status in world politics" being published in @iajournal.bsky.social

Read the full OA-article here: academic.oup.com/ia/article/d...

Skinner meme: ARE WE OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE MEANING OF CHRISTIANITY? NO, IT'S THE POPE WHO'S WRONG.*

25% tariff on Johnny in the basement

24% on mixing up the medicine

37% on the pavement

66% on thinking about the government

45% the man in the trench coat

31% on badge out, laid off

61% on her bad cough

Look out kid

It’s somethin’ you did

God knows when

But you’re doin’ it again

#Britain’s populist surge isn’t born of rage, but neglect. What #ReformUK reaps in the local elections is not rebellion, but inheritance—from towns where policy forgot to tread and hope was for long left to rot.
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I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

Tim Naftali's tweet on the termination of the HAC members without cause.

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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Very informative chart from Washington Post

DREZNER: The people leading this are unserious, unknowing dotards. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/there-are-...

#19 Trump's Tariffs Make a Bit More Sense if You Think Like a Mafia Boss A Public Choice interpretation. Well, sort of.

i first called this "a public choice theory of recent developments in international trade" but I am weak so went for the clickbait

Your tariff is the number of times you have walked into a room and instantly forgotten why you went there multiplied by the love for your workplace and divided by the weight of Capital Volume 3.

Great thread: excellent sketch of the potential explanations for why business and markets have so far proved relatively sanguine regarding Trump II breach with economic orthodoxy and indeed most heterodoxy.

Trump's attacks on Canada and the EU are drastically shifting public opinion both in the US and abroad.

Per Economist + YouGov
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Call for Abstracts: 2025 NUPI Theory Conference | NUPI Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics: Social Construction in Turbulent Times

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Call for Abstracts: 2025 NUPI Theory Conference | NUPI Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics: Social Construction in Turbulent Times

Heads up IR friends: you have five days left to submit your abstract to NUPI'a inaugural theory conference!

250-500€ travel reimbursements, plus (most) food will be provided.

www.nupi.no/en/events/20...

The New Analytics-Industrial Complex in Higher Education: Data, Governance, and Power Private data firms are quietly seizing control of global higher education, creating a power shift more profound than universities realize.

"The analytics-industrial complex has effectively achieved a form of regulatory capture over global higher education." ihe.bc.edu/pub/j49thy96...