Critical Raw Materials - our present and future
Jojo Nem SinghThis is the Substack of our five year research project funded by the European Research Council on critical minerals and the future of energy transition and geopolitical competition.
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The Double Vulnerability: How the New Oil Crisis is Stress-Testing Global Energy Transition
The US–Israeli war on Iran, launched on February 28, 2026, may be remembered as the moment fossil-fuel dependence stopped being an abstraction for the Global South. Within weeks Brent crude surged past $100 a barrel. Iran militarised the St...
🚨 Last Call for Proposals (Abstracts due 30 January 2026) 🚨
Industrial policy has returned to the centre of the global political economy. In the context of clean energy transition, major economies are intensifying efforts to secure critical raw materials that underpin batteries, electric mobility, r...
New publication: Power and industrial policy under China’s Belt and Road Initiative
DOI: 10.1177/10245294251399854 / 🔗 Read here
From Soft Power to Steel and Silicon: What China’s Belt and Road Is Really Doing to Industrialization
Since its launch in 2013, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been framed in st...
Call for Proposals
Under Trump 2.0, unilateral tariffs and economic nationalism have become the game in town. Blaming Chinese state subsidies for declining industrial competitiveness in the West, the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU)...
"We cannot use private sector metrics of efficiency to judge the long-run economic performance of public enterprises".
Our PI, Jewellord Nem Singh, was interviewed by La Tercera in Chile. He discussed his newest book, Business of the State (published by Oxford University Press), to make the case for strong government interventions in the strategic minerals...
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