Sarah Bauerle Danzman

"The latest figures show that the value of U.S. Treasuries held at the New York Fed on behalf of foreign central banks is $2.78 trillion. That's the lowest since August 2012, and down $130 billion in just two months."

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If the admin’s proposed TikTok deal goes through, providing ownership and control over a major social media platform, these concerns only further amplify. TikTok US needs an IPO, not a crony deal. And, US businesses need to wake up that their interest lies in being able to be global companies.

If you think about politics in these times as fundamentally about building a new kind of social order, rather than rejiggering institutions or party platforms in order to deliver someone’s more favored policy outcomes, contemporary politics makes a lot more sense.

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What a fantastic syllabus! I’d love to take this course 😁

How to dismantle a reserve currency For the economic tumult that the dollar has faced over the last eighty years, its political foundations have remained steadfast—until now. As the political order on which the dollar system rests grows...

Ahead of tomorrow's @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social Transatlantic Forum, I argue that political forces, rather than economic fundamentals, will determine the future direction of the international currency system. Link below.

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Here’s my approach to essays: you have to turn in something that does better than the AI. If it seems like AI could have done it, it’s just not adding value and is graded accordingly.

🎯 you all are depressing me with your insistence on proving Ezra’s core thesis (the left has given up the politics of persuasion and coalition building) so tragically correct. Henry is spot on.

I would like to understand what winning coalition of the left people are imagining that does not include Coates and Klein simultaneously.

Nope. Deposits for resort-booked trips are refundable up to 30 days before travel.

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A reminder: the in-state public institution that you or your loved one is admitted to will most likely offer you a quality education at an affordable price.

I think the finance side of the ledger in particular there has been excellent work in IPE. I think trade and investment is catching up. (Even though trade and finance were great on these issues in the 70s and 80s)

Ah, should’ve realized this was an Econ rant and not a “Sarah, your stuff is shit” rant. 🤪 but, seriously, there’s great work on Geoecon that is also IPE. I think we agree! 🥳

And maybe we’ll land on a better term for describing a return to managed/strategic trade and investment climates. But, that’s the kind of conceptual work that IPE should encourage rather than dismiss as old news!

Anyway, at least how I use and understand geoeconomics is as an object of inquiry rather than a discipline of study. We wouldn’t be gatekeepy and dismissive of scholars who describe their object of inquiry “globalization,” so why would we for scholars who study “geoeconomics?”

Revitalizing questions and theoretical interventions that fell out of fashion in IPE during the period of globalization. It took a lot to get other scholars to renew their interest in these topics. And to be open to answers beyond “it’s all interest groups lobbying for protection”

I don’t claim to “invent” a new field, but I do use the term geoeconomic statecraft to describe the types of behaviors and ideational commitments that animate my inquiry. Perhaps we are talking past each other. But, I do think that the scholars with which I engage on this topics are interested in ..

I don’t really know what you are talking about here, because I would describe my scholarship at the intersection of national security and economic policy. I build on previous scholarship in this area. I cite. I talk about how the previous 30 yrs ignore important scholarship from before.

Any question/argument that did not neatly fall into an OEP framework was ignore or deemed unimportant. I’m glad that mainstream IPE is starting to take these questions/ideas seriously, & there is some faddishness to the term now. But the reason for the term was to recenter ?s that IPE was ignoring.

I’ll add that IPE as a field largely bracketed issues of security during the age of globalization and scholars like me had to position our work as something different bc IPE reviewers consistently assumed any economic barrier was the result of narrow interest group protection.

The area of geoeconomics is to differentiate from what IPE had become, which was a study of the coalitions politics that fostered globalization, based on a shared ideational commitment to viewing intl economic exchange as primarily positive sum.

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The Topeka School: A Novel A Novel

The Topeka School is a complex rumination on the admixture of debate culture and competing visions of masculinity. It addresses the ways in which seemingly liberal debate can often harm pluralism rather than exercise it. Plus, the prose is arresting. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Given the messy online debate over whether Kirk’s style of verbal confrontation was fundamentally liberal (in the pluralist, free speech sense) and productive or trolling that undermines our collective capacity for reasoned & respectful debate over difficult ideas, I recommend reading Ben Lerner 1/

Reminder that reporters don’t write their headlines.

One fundamental thing to watch is who treats people as means rather than ends. You want to associate with those who treat individuals as ends. You don't want to associate with those who treat individuals as means. You want a morality of people as ends. You don't want a morality of people as means.

3 Are Shot and Critically Injured at Colorado High School, Authorities Say The attack took place on the campus of Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colo., which is southwest of Denver, according to the local sheriff’s office. At least two of the victims are students.

Three people, at least two of whom are students, were shot and critically injured at a high school outside Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday afternoon, the authorities said.

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

I do wonder how would have entitled the piece if he had editorial control (which I assume he does not). Whoever chose the title can’t distinguish between liberals and leftists.