Framing Crashed (1): Trade and Finance - Two Different Visions of the Twenty-First Century Global Condition
China apocalypse! Alongside the damage that may…
German Question(s): The New Germans and the Old Germans
How have Germany and Germans changed? In a recent…
European Political Economy: Italy's Elite Chooses a Strategy of Tension
The formation of a much-dreaded 5Star and…
Europe's Political Economy: A Gamble Gone Wrong - Notes on the Backdrop to the Italian Crisis
How to read the current Italian crisis? Is it…
Notes on Social Theory: A Piece for Karl Marx's 200th Birthday
On 24 August 1857 the Ohio State Life and Trust…
Notes on Social Theory: Reading Policing the Crisis in light of the politics of austerity
POLICING THE CRISIS MUGGING, THE STATE, AND LAW…
War in Germany: Lecture 12 Wilhelmine Germany, Militarism and Weltpolitik
War in Germany reaches the critical decades in…
America's Political Economy: Essential new work on intergenerational inequality in the US - how race, gender and social structure interact
How is inequality in America produced and…
War in Germany: Bismarck and the Austro-Prussian war of 1866
In which I attempt a Clausewitzian analysis of…
Notes on the Global Condition: Nuclear aircraft carriers in the age of the anthropocene
The refusal of the Trump administration to engage…
War in Germany: 1848 and the impasse of conservative militarism in Prussia
How did Metternich contain the revolutionary…
Europe's Political Economy: Reading Reviews of Varoufakis's Adults in the Room
Since it appeared in 2017 Yannis Varoufakis’s…
America's Political Economy: How college attendance varies with parental income
Better off Americans go to College. Poor…
Notes on the Global Condition: Democracy’s Twenty-First-Century Histories - Call for Comments
Under really extreme time pressure, I’ve…
War in Germany: Prussia and the problem of war in the 18th century
The Fall of Fortress Kolberg 1761 A. Kotsebu…
War in Germany: The Thirty Years War and the Treaty of Westphalia
Lectures 2 and 3 in the War and Germany series…
America's Political Economy: The local structure of labour markets and bargaining power
Across much of America (and many other countries)…
Notes on the Global Condition: Of Landscapes of Feed and Oceanic Dead Zones
One spectacular global news story catches your…
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World - Out August 2018
Yesterday was the last day of serious work on the…
Europe's Political Economy: Mario Draghi and the eurozone's crisis winter of 2011-2012
Early in the morning of June 29 2012, after…
America's Political Economy: The Double Life of Mariel
Pressed by a New York Times reporter yesterday…
Notes on the Global Condition: Where in the world is America?
When did America’s soft power become American?…
Notes on Social Theory (and History): artistic labour and the gig economy
“Is it not crazy, asks e.g. (or at least…