CNM Nguyen @ngcmn26

social anthropologist on Vietnam, China, and South-East Asia | prev. @Cambridge_Uni, @UN in Indonesia (with Timor-Leste), Thailand. Cambridge, United Kingdom Joined June 2009

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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @alex_callinicos

13 hours ago

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard doesn’t hold back: ‘Four powerful shocks are hitting the world economy at the same time. They are escalating and feeding on each other, driving a commodity spiral that can end only in an inflationary blow-off.’

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Robert Tally @RobertTally

9 hours ago

My copy just arrived: Fredric Jameson's posthumous companion volume to "The Years of Theory," here addressing postwar German thought. Thanks (and congratulations) to editor Carson Welch for putting this together so marvelously. versobooks.com/products/3533-…

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Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav

6 hours ago

An honour to meet Prof Amartya Sen, a true Bharat Ratna, at his home next to Harvard University. Chatty and curious as ever, he was full of questions (SIR? Cockroaches? Opposition?) on what is happening back home. He doesn’t like anyone touching his feet (nor do I) but every time I meet him, I instinctively bend for Pranam and his Ashirwaad. #AmartyaSen #BharatRatna

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Democracy Now! @democracynow

21 hours ago

"End Times Fascism," the new book by Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein, describes how a "fractious alliance" of religious extremists, tech accelerationists and ethnonationalists is pushing the world toward disaster. "They're both building their arks and they're causing the floods," @astradisastra says.

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Cambria Press @CambriaPress

23 hours ago

OUT THIS MONTH! "Waiting for the Barbarians: A History of Geopolitics in Early Modern China, 1680-1850" is a groundbreaking examination of how Qing China reimagined its imperial identity through territorial expansion, ideological adaptation, and cartographic precision. Between 1680 and 1850, the Qing integrated Central Asia, Tibet, and Mongolia into a vast, multiethnic empire—challenging traditional Confucian distinctions between civilization and “barbarism.” Bridging political thought, cultural geography, and geodetic science, this book reveals how Qing rulers legitimized territorial claims using symbolic geography—such as surveys of the Yellow River’s headwaters—and advanced tools like triangulation and the theodolite. These efforts fostered a new understanding of spatial order among Qing officials, intellectuals, and administrators. cambriapress.com/WaitingfortheB…

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CNM Nguyen @ngcmn26

7 hours ago

Their over-reach also mark the collapse of the ‘IMEC Corridor’ launched at the G20 in India. It’s a reminder that models of corporate dystopia and nihilism to re-draw and re-assert geopolitics cannot entirely replace the human instincts to struggle against systemic oppression.

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CNM Nguyen @ngcmn26

8 hours ago

The Abraham Accords & the Board of Peace member states believed that they could sweepingly re-organize the Middle East & Asia through successful wars, genocides, and corporate disciplining on Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen, and Iran. They forgot: oppression yields resistance.

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Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire

a day ago

You can read my latest piece in @guardian here 2027 is going to be grim theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Sidhant Sibal @sidhant

2 days ago

Vietnam is the first country in the South East Asia with which India has a Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, EAM Jaishankar tells Vietnam foreign minister Le Hoai Trung in Delhi

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Noah Gordon @noah_gordon_

2 days ago

This tremendous, erudite essay came out days after the landslides in Nepal, which did damage equivalent to 10% of the country's annual GDP.

Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation

2 weeks ago

Everything you wanted to know abt the return of economic nationalism but were afraid to ask, w appearances by @BrankoMilan, Marvin Suesse, Jamie Merchant a k a @pathtopraxis, @leninology, Wolfgang Streeck, @IliasAlami & @triofrancos, & a cameo by @oikeios newleftreview.org/issues/ii160/a…

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Stanly Johny @johnstanly

2 days ago

Some in India are getting so worked up about #Brics! The U.S. had imposed 50% tariffs on India, which could have seriously affected India's rise. The US wanted to impose its preferences on #India's energy purchases. trump's trade czar Peter Navarro used to attack Indian trade policies almost on a daily basis during the high-tariff days. The US maintains a very close strategc partnership with Pakistan and allowed trump's favourite field marshal to consolidate both at home and abroad. The US is also turning increasingly transactional, even alienating its closest post-War allies. The US's unilateral aggression in India's neighbourhood has threatened to disrupt India's economic and energy stability. America's ability and commitment to defend even its close allies are called into question in the aftermath of the war on #Iran. And from a broader, structural perspective, the American unipolarity is behind us. Still, the Americaists in Delhi argue that India's only path to rise is through the U.S.! They don't find serious problems with any of these abovementioned material realities or US behaviour, but maintaining and managing a stable relationship with #China, bilaterally or multiletarally through groupings such as Brics and SCO, is an issue. Retainig and pursuing close strategic partnership with #Russia is an issue. They have been arguing since 2022 that India has, or should have, lost Russia. America forcing India to reroute its energy supply map is fine, but India importing good from Russia or China would make us a Russian or Chinese colony! This fear-mongering stems out either lack of confidence in Indian statecraft or a blind belief that only subordinance to the US would bring India prosperity and influence. We are a balancer, not an ally of any great power system, and we will continue to balance.

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Panashe Chigumadzi @PanasheChig

3 days ago

In my new @ideasletter essay, "The Hinge of the Modern World," I show that Afrophobia in South Africa is not a tragic national failure of sentiment and solidarity — it is a structural feature of the modern world racial-capitalist system expressing itself at its historic limit case. Since the rounding of the Cape in 1497 brought the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds together, South Africa has been the structural hinge of both global racial capitalism and global racial solidarity politics — as the 1899–1902 Anglo-Boer War made clear for the white world, and as the 1900 Pan-African Conference, held in part over the "native question in South Africa," made equally clear for the Black world. Ultimately, apartheid's end in 1994 marked the effective collapse of the global Black solidarity that had bound Africa and its diaspora together for a century. theideasletter.org/essay/hinge-of…

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Paul Staniland @pstanpolitics

4 days ago

Contemporary Political Science: "Together, these patterns depict a discipline that is larger and more productive than ever yet is increasingly organized around measurable outputs, rather than intellectual risk-taking or theoretical innovation."

wubenmensheng @Wubenmensheng

5 days ago

Grossman et al map 140,000+ articles across 174 political science journals (2003-23), showing a larger, more collaborative, and increasingly quantitative discipline. doi.org/10.1017/S15375…

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Ritwika Patgiri @RitwikaPatgiri

3 days ago

My favourite reads of the year so far:

Michael Thrower Chowdhury @BevansAdvocate

4 days ago

My favourite reads of the year so far

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Michal Schatz @miyyka9

3 days ago

BIG VERSO NEWS! Next month we are launch a new series on China called Hundred Flowers. Against both China hawkery and uncritical admiration, the series will publish rigorous analysis of China's past and present. The first 3 books in the series are available for pre-order now!

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Mathias @bucephalus424

3 days ago

Now reading

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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @edenhofer_jacob

3 days ago

Very interesting and helpful(I now see more clearly how to revise our paper).

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde @JesusFerna7026

4 days ago

David Deutsch (@DavidDeutschOxf) has a nice post today explaining how he fixed his dishwasher with the help of ChatGPT. We have all been there over the last couple of years. In my case, from fixing a light fixture in my kitchen to repairing a leak in my irrigation system.

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Katja Hoyer @hoyer_kat

3 days ago

My brief explainer of the AfD landslide victory we've just seen in Saxony-Anhalt and why we should be cautious with historical comparisons 👇

spiked @spikedonline

4 days ago

The AfD landslide: explained @hoyer_kat on Germany’s populist revolt, why voters are angry and why this is not a ‘Weimar moment’. Watch and let us know what you think below👇