Van Jackson
@RealVanJackson
Working-class kid who ended up an international relations prof. Newsletter and Podcast: https://www.un-diplomatic.com; https://www.bangbangpod.com.
The Rivalry Peril has a cover! Everything Washington has told you about great-power competition is wrong. Come January 2025, @mbrenes1 and I are gonna reveal why! #TheRivalryPeril
This is so enraging that I’m not sure what to say. In a just world, BCG would be subject to global sanctions and the ICC would be getting busy. In this world, everything’s down to direct action, boycotts, and reputational damage I guess
Boston Consulting Group spent more than 7 months developing the aid death traps that are killing ~100 Palestinians a day in Gaza. These too are genocidaires
China accomplished this as part of a strategic detente with the US. Under conditions of persistent great-power rivalry—our current situation—that miracle would not have been possible
The reason I am positive about China's rise is simple. China has lifted more people out of poverty than the rest of the world put together in the last 50 years, they're leading clean energy investment, and they're changing the international economic order for the better.
Best anti-ICE freestyle from my man Hazerd: “Shoutout to the white homies using they privileges for good. I ain’t saying cuz you white that your ride has been easy, but statistically the cops are gonna do you less greasy.”
Encinitas strong, fuck ICE 💪💪💪
This woman is a damn hero 💞 Outside a Home Depot in Encinitas. “If you’re doing something right, take your *%#£|*% mask off!”
A little too on the nose for Germany to be going fascist in response to peace protests
Extreme police violence at protesters for Gaza today in Berlin
🚨NEW: Former U.S. Green Beret Anthony Aguilar says he routinely witnessed Israeli forces (IDF) firing artillery tank rounds and mortar rounds into crowds of unarmed, starving Palestinians at GHF aid sites in Gaza. “I witnessed war crimes,” the GHF security contractor told the…
Correct. “Technology theft” is technology transfer is refusing the quasi-monopolies of rich countries’ wealth hoarding via systems of unequal exchange.
The notion that lower-income countries "steal" technology from high-income countries is absurd. In my newsletter, I explain why technology should be shared rather than protected—and how a recent Hollywood blockbuster agrees. Link in replies.
Amazing. Zohran’s got Wu-Tang, Run The Jewels, and The Lox in his corner, backing a practical socialist program to make New York affordable. The biggest voices in hip-hop from the neoliberal era have embraced social democracy
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
Must-read discussion of China’s push for industrial automation with Prof. Sun Zhongwei. A few highlights: - China’s push for automation was due to labor shortage, not the cause of it. Workers don’t want factory jobs, prefer pay and conditions at service jobs. Factories were…
America’s disastrous track record of bodies and bullets in the Middle East is not because of oil—it’s because of a misplaced belief in Israeli primacy
Political theorists looking at the list of professions to be replaced by AI
Here top 40 professions that will be replaced by AI first and the last, published by Microsoft
This is equally true about international relations as a discipline, and that tracks because IR borrows heavily from economics
Ha-Joon Chang in today's FT: "Economics today resembles Catholic theology in medieval Europe: a rigid doctrine guarded by a modern priesthood who claim to possess the sole truth. Dissenters are shunned."
“the US should be investing in higher education and advanced research while making friends around the world. But the US refusal to make those common-sense choices is part of the same pathology that makes US elites obsess about China.” un-diplomatic.com/p/the-us-cant-…