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Tim Hirschel-Burns

Tim Hirschel-Burns

@TimH_B

Global development policy. Past: @YaleLawSch, 🇧🇯. Views mine. Subscribe to my Substack: https://t.co/deUMR6V323

Washington D.C. Katılım Temmuz 2012
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Waleed Shahid 🪬@_waleedshahid·
Lamine Yamal grew up the son of a Moroccan house painter and an Equatorial Guinean waitress, in a neighborhood where he was taunted as a kid and where his own father was later stabbed. Nico Williams is the son of two Ghanaians who crossed the Sahara on foot, his mother pregnant, and entered Spain as asylum seekers. Today they won the World Cup in the same arena attended by men who've built careers keeping people like their parents out.
FOX Sports@FOXSports

Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams taking in the moment after winning the 2026 FIFA World Cup 🇪🇸

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First country to hold the men’s and women’s World Cups at the same time. Europe’s strongest voice against militarism and genocide in Gaza. Actively expanding immigration and enjoying one of Europe’s best economies. A great country!
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Feeling this today—why the World Cup is the most beautiful, unifying, internationalist event this earth has to offer
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Tobita Chow@tobitac·
"These advances in EU convergence precisely what the EU’s Cohesion Policy was designed to achieve: European policymakers agreed that deeper economic and political integration requires reducing inequalities between regions." It's time to globalize this principle
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Read my blog here on the EU's Cohesion Policy, a remarkably successful but rarely discussed model of international integration and cooperative development bu.edu/gdp/2026/07/09…

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There's a real chance that a progressive governing coalition is coming, and there will be appetite for a new foreign policy. That's huge But as I put it in Jacobin, it means progressives need to have answers to the kinds of questions that come up when you're actually governing
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Oliver Stuenkel 🇧🇷
Oliver Stuenkel 🇧🇷@OliverStuenkel·
Because so little of Brazil's trade goes to the US, the new tariffs affect only about 2% of its total exports. Trump handed Lula a gift — a rally-round-the-flag boost at very little economic cost.
Oliver Stuenkel 🇧🇷@OliverStuenkel

Over the past year, the US share of Brazil's exports has dropped from ~12% to ~9%. The tariffs announced yesterday will push it lower still, as exporters seek new markets — bound to weaken US influence in Brazil, and a boon to rival powers.

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I understand why people focused on militarism gravitate towards reducing US international engagement. But when it comes to the economy + broader int'l interaction, the US *is* going to be involved. It will inevitably be a question of *how* the US engages, not *whether* it does
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One related trend I think about a lot: The idea that democracy is primarily about protecting individual rights + freedoms is a minority view, held by just 9% of the world, mostly in richer countries. 59% of people think the main purpose of democracy is to raise living standards
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A tension I emphasized in this piece: Progressives’ domestic agenda centers economic well-being. But when they talk about foreign policy, the international economy rarely comes up

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Today’s ref Ismail Elfath—the last American left in the tournament—came to the US through the diversity visa lottery, a little-known gem of an immigration program. The Trump administration suspended it indefinitely
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A tension I emphasized in this piece: Progressives’ domestic agenda centers economic well-being. But when they talk about foreign policy, the international economy rarely comes up
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New from me: The new wave sweeping the Democratic Party is rightly outraged over Gaza. But what exactly is their foreign policy agenda beyond Gaza? It's far from clear—but the principles underlying opposition to the genocide offer the contours of a broader international vision

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Two pieces published yesterday on progressive foreign policy that are worth reading in tandem: @mideastXmidwest on AOC's engagement with foreign policy, and me on bridging the lessons from Gaza with a broader international agenda
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Jag Bhalla…Idea Trader/Thought Plumber
Jag Bhalla…Idea Trader/Thought Plumber@hangingnoodles·
Savvy piece on evidence of and need for global solidarity @TimH_B "the depth of the horror that many Americans have felt watching children suffering in Gaza demonstrates that their solidarity is by no means limited to American citizens"
Jacobin@jacobin

A left foreign policy would mean that instead of supporting genocide in Gaza or waging war with Iran, the US could work with other states to combat climate change, address refugee crises, and confront the global rich. jacobin.com/2026/07/left-f…

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