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Which int' institutions would #Trump 2.0 🇺🇸 criticize, sabotage, leave, or cripple from outside? Making sense of similar questions about Trump 1.0 inspired joint research w/ @BenjaminDassler & Andreas Kruck. Its results published in PEIO/RIO provide insights into Trump 2.0👇

📢Excited to announce #PEAIO25 June 12-13 in Milano. Hosted by CefES Research Center, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. No conference or registration fee Please submit full papers here👇 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76941/s… Deadline for submission: March 15, 2025 Notifications by March 31, 2025 Please circulate widely!

The blog post draws on our insights from our research on how major powers' negative institutional power to avoid underused outcomes in multilateral institutions drives or constrains their contestation It is available #openaccess in PEIO/RIO: doi.org/10.1007/s11558…

Our paper on the ideological biases of international bureaucrats is now published in the #AJPS. AJPS We use individual-level data to trace the influence of #IMF staff on policy conditionality. @akentikelenis on bsky L Wellner Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/ajps.1…

Unser Beitrag stützt sich auf unsere Forschung zu den de-eskalierenden Effekten von Verhinderungsmacht in multilateralen Institutionen, die jüngst #openaccess im PEIO/RIO veröffentlicht wurde: doi.org/10.1007/s11558…

Nice to see this in print in Journal of Urban Economics! How do official Chinese-funded infrastructure projects diffuse economic activity in developing countries? Strongest effects in least-developed regions and near cities. 1/2 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New article (open access!) 🚨 in Journal of Urban Economics (w/ Richard Bluhm, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Parks, and Mike Tierney): "Connective financing": Chinese-financed transport infrastructure helps decentralize economic activity in developing countries. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thrilled to see this article finally out International Organization We show that people perceive international organizations as ideological and consider them more legitimate if they are ideologically closer to people's own beliefs. tinyurl.com/3mthuj3v

Illini from UI Political Science were well-represented at PEIO/RIO! (Gino Pauselli,Lucie Lu,Alice Iannantuoni, Cleo Obrien-Udry, and Nuole Chen - plus me as a proud UofI alum).

Check out the papers of the 17th PEIO (PEIO/RIO , Harvard University, Jan 23-25) at peio.me. Please save the date for our next PEIO, hosted by IE University in Segovia, Spain, on January 29-31, 2026. Thanks to Nikitas Konstantinidis for hosting us there!

Two years ago Stephen Chaudoin, Max Kagan, and I published a paper on politically-targeted trade retaliation (PTTR) against swing states and Red states. Since it's is back in the news, if you're interested in the domestic effects of PTTR check out doi.org/10.1007/s11558…

*Extremely* timely EDCC article #econtwitter #econsky about effectiveness of foreign aid in building soft power. . .for China! Completion of Chinese foreign aid projects ⬆️ support for Chinese gov in recipient countries L Wellner Axel Dreher Andreas Fuchs Austin Strange

What will be the consequences of destroying the U.S. foreign aid infrastructure? I review the evidence about foreign aid and attitudes toward donor countries in a new Good Authority post. goodauthority.org/news/ending-us…

Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (PEIO/RIO) at IE University in Segovia, Spain, January 29-31, 2026. Submission is now open at peio.me. Thanks Nikitas Konstantinidis for hosting!

Some thoughts on the suspension of USAID in an interview with WirtschaftsWoche: wiwo.de/politik/auslan… (in German)

The RIO allows manuscripts rejected at APSR, IO, ISQ to be transferred to RIO (and v.v.). Interested in discussing the draft of RIO’s transfer policy? Share your thoughts and suggstions for improvement: shorturl.at/9jbQb, PEIO/RIO, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, American Political Science Review

Aid is about to be weaponised. The hard-nosed enforcers of the emerging approach are willing to sacrifice spending that did lots of good econ.st/43w8lCX

The Review of International Organizations invites papers using geocoded data on foreign aid for a special issue “Analyzing Global Development with the Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD).” See godad.me, godad.uni-goettingen.de/uploads/RIO_GO…

Submitting your paper to the 15th edition of #EconomicsOfGlobalInteractions, this year September 8-9. Keynote speakers: Paola Conconi (Oxford) and Axel Dreher (Heidelberg). Deadline for submissions: May 25. Rune Jansen Hagen Kjetil Bjorvatn bit.ly/2Wmqi1t

📢 Excited to share the program for the 7th Annual CefES Conference on the Economics and Politics of Europe, hosted by CefES Research Center and Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca on June 12–13! 🎤 Keynote speakers: Massimo Morelli, Universita Bocconi Layna Mosley, Princeton School of Public & International Affairs 📄 Program 👇 editorialexpress.com/conference/7IC…