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The end of USAID signaled a convergence between the US and China's approaches to overseas development aid. Our research associates Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones explain trends in ODA and how it will impact developing countries eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/11/tru…

The US-China trade talks will receive extensive coverage today, but the real story that will have long-term impacts on global economic geography is this: ft.com/content/8e018b…

The Second Cold War is different from the first in many ways, but so what? In an interview with U.S.-China Perception Monitor our research associate Seth Schindler explains how these differences matter, and how countries are avoiding being caught in the middle uscnpm.substack.com/p/the-second-c…

The EU may be 'nastier than China' according to Donald Trump, but the main event is still US-China rivalry. In a broadside against China's chips and AI sectors, the US said “using Huawei Ascend chips anywhere in the world violates US export controls”. ft.com/content/2033b5…

Xi and Lula deepened China-Brazil ties with new deals signed in Beijing during a key China-CELAC ministerial meeting. Here are the highlights. chinaglobalsouth.com/2025/05/14/chi…

Whiplash - Trump doesn't want to hurt China, Europe is 'nastier' than China, and India? He claims he just told his 'good friend' Tim Cook that he doesn't want Apple investing in India. See this headline from April 24:

How to interpret the Trump administration's economic policy...irrational? Destructive? Insane? In the context of the decay of the neoliberal order, Lee Jones interprets it as denial, disavowal, and delusion. Find out how it will impact American hegemony americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/05/trumps…

What did you do during the Trump times? If the US steps back from the brink and doesn't become a police state, its citizens will all have to answer that question. Want to have an answer? Begin by reading this essay by @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social and Seth Schindler globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/23/05/202…

An exciting initiative from one of our Research Associates, Paolo Balmas, focused on news, history and mapping of China's financial networks: financialsilkroad.info

Countries are responding to the Second Cold War by reviving non-alignment, right? Wrong! The NAM sought to keep the superpowers at arm's length, but currently countries seek to maintain the deep connections with the US and China forged over the past decades of globalization

Why are US court rulings enforced by governments of other countries? How does this bolster US power abroad, and is it likely to change in the future? Find out the answers to these questions and more from Shaina Potts, won our latest podcast open.spotify.com/episode/51BNpn…

ICYM Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart & I wrote a piece for Phenomenal World about the return of industrial policy, asking if it heralds the return of policy space in the pursuit of development, or if its just recreating new hierarchies. Check it out 👇 phenomenalworld.org/analysis/indus…

Wrote a new piece for The BREAK–DOWN on how the Second Cold War is shaping the future climate and energy transition, including in developing countries break-down.org/post/a-green-c… Politics and International Studies Cambridge Second Cold War Observatory a few quotes in the thread below: 1/6

What does the Second Cold War have to do with climate change and the energy transition? Quite a lot, as Ilias Alami explains in this article

Returning from a terrific workshop on the Political Economy of the Second Cold War at #EWIS2025. Great to see Second Cold War Observatory friends and new colleagues to discuss post-multilateralism, the chip war, industrial policy and much else besides.

Ilias Alami thank you! indebted to thinking with you & Second Cold War observatory gang! We cite great TNI essay "The US-China battle for control of global networks". ht Second Cold War Observatory @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social Seth Schindler Lee Jones tni.org/en/article/the… phenomenalworld.org/analysis/brics…

How do small states navigate contemporary geopolitical rivalry? Find out from our research associate Jessica Dicarlo and Dinesh Paudel, as they explore the case of Nepal tandfonline.com/eprint/GXATNPQ…

BRICS are greening. Our report is out We find -new wave of pro-active green industrial policies to develop potential -surge of major green industrial assets & electricity shift -cases of co-development of green industries within BRICS Jayati Ghosh netzeropolicylab.com/brics-going-gr…

Timely contribution by Second Cold War Observatory colleagues Jessica DiCarlo & Dinesh Paudel to the literature, introducing "infrastructural polyalignment" in the context of Nepal as a strategy of engaging rival powers through overlapping infrastructure projects without formal alignment

Recent data shows that Central Asia is a major site of Chinese investment (and BRI funding is once more on the rise). How is that impacting production and local economies? Find out, with the case of Chinese agribusiness firms in Tajikistan👇