@jeannemarieM3 @NilSantianez There are people leading Grossman reading groups? How cool …. It is the kind of book that makes you feel like you need
@stoneandthestar @jeannemarieM3 @NilSantianez You are right to be. I was stopped in my tracks the other day. A freight train of a book!
How should progressive politics relate to realism?
The question has long haunted me. It was most pressing when I was writing Deluge and struggling with the problems of interwar war international relations and the Treaty of Versailles. It was out of that era that conventional notions of “realism” in international relations theory were born.
Back in 2017, Stefan Eich and I had a crack at dismantling “Politics as a Vocation”, a key lecture by Max Weber that is often cited as canonical for realism in political theory.
Right now there is no more important arena in which to debate this issue than the climate crisis.
RT @edbrophy: There is no more important arena in which to debate the question of how progressive politics should relate to realism than th…
@PHonohan @NilSantianez Thank you. Just ordered.
"NATO is the foundation of collective security in the Euro-Atlantic area … We will cooperate with the EU on matters of security and defence as
"The US is the UK’s biggest single bilateral trading partner” UK Integrated review 2021 … Apparently mapping “global Britain” begins Trump-style with an imaginary disaggregation
If you want to understand the large generational differences in UK politics/social attitudes, you have to factor in the transformation in higher education access in
@jfkirkegaard You are right. Took it down. Sloppy.
RT @walt33: @adam_tooze AFAIK apprenticeships in the German system are not tertiary education by definition but these professions would be…
In international comparison, the 1973-1995 slowdown in growth in productivity per hour worked was less bad in UK than in Europe or in US where
The UK has been experiencing extensive growth in recent decades i.e. stagnant productivity and wages with larger share of population working -> GDP per capita
The anomalous ‘flat-lining’ of labour productivity and real wages evident since 2007 in UK is unprecedented in almost 160 years. voxeu.org/article/parado… https://t.co/26R7beTSxu
The sudden acceleration in tertiary enrollment transformed UK society in 1990s and early 2000s but since then has stagnated. @OurWorldInData https://t.co/yUAbrx2Kfa
When EU evaluates path to net zero by 2050, one issue that a realistic view needs to consider is impact on Libya, Algeria, Azerbaijan and
Imagine if the EU were as committed to Net Zero Green Deal Energy Transition as it once was to the Common Agricultural Policy! Now THAT
@rmglade @DeboraRevoltel1 @EIB @OECDeconomy @Columbia @suerf_org @PedroJFdeLima @EU_MarioNava @R_Veugelers @RBKoopman @CLMannEcon @JosephEStiglitz @Jan_Svejnar @agnesbq1 @EU_JPV @GWCUAW This happened in January!
The absence of manifest debt crisis in 2020 does not mean that EM and low-income countries are out of woods. The pressure is building. Fascinating
In 1989 defense spending of 3% of GDP was quite normal in NATO. Start from current defense spending levels of c. 1.2% of GDP. Add
“The Shortest Route to Manchuria” Fascinating this on Japanese imaginings of Empire apjjf.org/2021/5/Zhong.h… https://t.co/KGpkBVYyma
Germany huffed and puffed over its coal phase out plans and ended up with something that in 2021 just looks grotesque. NO ONE is going
RT @SpitfireFilly: @adam_tooze @JanTattenberg Interesting with the exhibition being in Vienna & seeing one of veterans attempting to refram…
RT @FinSkeptic: @adam_tooze Thanks for highlighting this! Super interesting, especially his GM / OPEL stories.
Im fascinated (in a rather horrified way) by possibility of comparing EU energy transition to common agricultural policy. Has anyone already done this? Chartbook Newslettere
Realism about the net zero path for EU to 2050 also means thinking hard about the impact on MENA countries that rely heavily on fossil
Ive taken a deep dive recently back into Nazi racial war in East. Finally started Grossman’s Life and Fate. Am reeling. Thought I needed some
“Clean Wehrmacht”? In 1990s an explosive historical exhibition dealt huge blow to the myth. Documentary film maker Ruth Beckermann did remarkable series of interviews on
@HindChristopher @PP_Rubens The painter’s German … does carnation into incarnation go in German he wonders ….
@HindChristopher @PP_Rubens For real? Or are you having me on? Either way Im impressed ….
RT @NatBullard: Chartbook Newsletter #17 by @adam_tooze >on realism and net-zero ambitions. Good read. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne…
RT @doctorow: Internal Landscape-Syria Destruction. Surreal Mixed Media Collage Art By Ayham Jabr. rollership.tumblr.com/post/646448528… https://t.co/K…
Can Erdogan really live with this level of volatility in currency markets? ft.com/content/85b67a… https://t.co/0d7XmRBvNB
RT @adam_tooze: If you stand back from legal issues what is at stake in BVerfG judgement on ECB is question of whether are ready to
Decarbonizing Poland may be a tough nut to crack, but it is NOT impossible and the trade offs should not be that painful. The drama
Alte Schule indeed: Charmed to discover that legendary German engine designer Fritz Indra is all over Youtube! youtube.com/watch?v=YMfKrs… https://t.co/fN5BsWn4vo
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