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Dec 11, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The FAO's recommendation that livestock production be intensified in the Global South is a terrible, short-sighted idea. It will lock in factory farming as a model and open currently low-consuming countries to corporate capture of their food systems. ft.com/content/2eb938…
Intensified production with "sustainable feed sources" is a pipe dream. We know what works and what's cheap: soy and corn, and those are hardly sustainable. fao.org/interactive/sd…
Nov 2, 2023 • 25 tweets • 8 min read
🚨 New Publication 🚨
In @JIRD_jour, @jan_smolenski and I critique the trend of IR theorists with little expertise in Ukrainian, Russian, and Eastern European politics making broad descriptive and prescriptive claims about the war in Ukraine.
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In the wake of Russia’s all-out war on Ukraine launched on February 24, 2022, among the loudest academic voices analyzing the conflict have been adherents of the “realist” theoretical tradition. Of course, we had already heard from them in 2014...
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Mar 11, 2022 • 128 tweets • 47 min read
Not sure how I missed this gem.
This is moronic. Suggesting that the potential conditions for a ceasefire (UA potentially not joining NATO) proves a theory about the war’s causes is just completely faulty logic esp. since NATO never attacked Russia. The American left seriously needs to sit this one out.