Sara Lorenzini

Many shades of misogyny

Xi sets out conservative climate goal for China over next decade President contradicts US leader by calling the green energy transition ‘the trend of our time’

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Everyone’s looking forward to this! Great way to kick off the new academic year!

The Coming Ecological Cold War Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.

We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

Simple as that

Hey book lovers! UNC Press just redesigned their website and are offering 50% off ALL books to celebrate! This is the biggest sale I've ever seen them do (even better than my author discount, TBH), and I'm definitely going to stock up. This is your chance to get my new book for only $15!

China is building 74% of all current solar and wind projects, report says Beijing is dominating construction of renewable energy sources, according to Global Energy Monitor

In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
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"The better way to understand Anchorage is not as the start of something new, but as the culmination of a longer process. As the U.S. dismantles its foreign-policy tools, as this administration fires the people who know how to use them, our ability to act with any agility will diminish"

Happy to share that my book, Ambition and Adjustment: The Making and Unmaking of Postcolonial Development in Africa, will be published by the University of Chicago Press next year! More soon about this project that I am very proud of and have been working on for a very long time.

The World Needs a New Economics of Water Mariana Mazzucato proposes a radical change in perspective toward humanity's most precious resource.

Water connects us all through atmospheric moisture that travels across continents. Deforestation in the Amazon reduces rainfall as far as the Congo Basin. We need a new lens that treats the hydrological cycle as a global common good requiring collective action. 1/2

US is becoming poorer & weaker as it dismantles the very system it once built. Now, marooned on a fossil-drenched continent, the question is whether it will watch in sullen silence as others climb toward the solar uplands, or have the power to crush the spring
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A scary look into the future of the (all male) organic intellectuals of Silicon Valley

Dictatorships and Data Standards - The American Interest Since the 19th century, government statistics have been central to our sense of shared social reality. Is that going away?

7 years ago I wrote that, "the most lasting long-term consequence of the Trump Administration," could be "the disruption of the belief in neutral gov't statistics that form the epistemological foundation of shared social, economic & political reality." www.the-american-interest.com/2018/04/17/d...

We need a planetary system of diplomacy for the 21st century | Aeon Essays We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national and commercial interests

"It is time to develop a new geocentric model — not in the astronomical sense, but philosophically: a fundamental awareness that places the Earth system at the centre of our thinking and actions, and that considers the raison de Terre as the keystone of global governance." aeon.co/essays/we-ne...

“the energy transition is likely to become the locus of a new eco-ideological Cold War that will reshape global alignments and provoke existential resistance from the fossil-fueled ancien régime.”

Join us for our public event w/ @quinnslobodian.com on the neoliberal roots of the populist right.

Professor of #InternationalHistory @bostonu.bsky.social, Quinn Slobodian was named as one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers by @prospectmagazine.co.uk

📅 21st May, Maison de la paix

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Looks great!

Great article on the unexpected founders of neoliberalism.

Cover of the book Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies featuring an abstract piece of art by Kasimir Malevich

"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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YouTube video by Blavatnik School of Government Global security: Is law our last hope? Inaugural Lecture – Janina Dill

Absolutely superb inaugural lecture by @janinadill.bsky.social

Congrats

Thank you for the cameo for my X feed around 36:00

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