🚨#OCIS2025 early bird registrations extended🚨 If you're presenting at #OCIS2025, early bird registrations have been extended to 12 May. ocis.org.au/registration/ We also plan to release the program soon. Stay tuned! Joanne Wallis Tom Chodor Will Clapton Sarah G. Phillips

Many developing countries are in debt crisis, in part due to Chinese lending. Against realist expectations, China has neither seized their assets nor bailed them out, but prioritises getting its money back. Our new article explains why!

This piece in now placed in the latest issue of Development and Change onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

The OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives reports global aid fell in 2024 - well before Trump returned to power: oecd.org/en/about/news/… This is as anticipated - and explained - in my recent article with Shahar Hameiri in Development and Change: x.com/ShaharHameiri/…

And now the Trump admininstration is shuttering the Millennium Challenge Corporation too. This is the most effective of all US aid agencies in building international infrastructure. What the thinking here is, if there is any, I cannot say. cgdev.org/blog/impact-sh…

It's amazing this story is still doing the rounds, including on ABC News, given its shaky foundations. abc.net.au/news/2025-04-2…

So basically a major split is emerging between those who develop AI platforms and hope to use export controls to maintain their compute advantage to stay in front of Chinese competitors, and those who make the chips and want to have a bigger market. cnbc.com/2025/05/01/nvi…

Vale Joseph Nye. His passing at this moment seems also an apt metaphor for the twilight of the American Century.

Great news! Our article in Review of International Political Economy is now #OpenAccess. Check it out: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Sir, friendship isn't some sycophantic bot that agrees with everything you say.

It doesn't surprise me that AI tools are leading to a flood of low-quality research. Some things can and should be streamlined, but good research involves deep thinking, and it's impossible to do this by skipping through stages, such as reading the available research carefully.

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…

If you're going to read one piece about Trump's tariffs, make it this one. americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/05/trumps…

Very excited! Pavement is one of my absolute favourite band.

Some useful detail here, but IMO it is wrong to frame this as a 'reversal'. As Shahar Hameiri & I showed in Fractured China, Xi never ruled China single-handed, but always set broad goals that subordinates interpreted, influenced and sometimes ignored. cambridge.org/core/books/fra…

🎉Viviana García Pinzón's "Trajectories of Governance: Tracing the Entanglements of Order and Violence in Peripheral Cities of Latin America" published in our Shahar Hameiri @brisunipress series has won an award from the Latin American Studies Association. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trajectories-o…

🇰🇪 My open access article on the geopolitical economy of Kenyan #polyalignment is out now with thirdworldq. Shahar Hameiri Lee Jones @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social Seth Schindler Cliff Mboya SHANGWE UDADISI Thabit Jacob, PhD Adhere Cavince Second Cold War Observatory shorturl.at/foSws

Brilliant Financial Times #longread on China's booming industrial overcapacity and collapsing profitability. 1/2 ft.com/content/f7979a…