Professor Helen Thompson

Publications

• The European geopolitical space and the long path to Brexit (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro lecture 2020,’ Government and Opposition, 2021 vol 56, no 3, pp. 385-404.
   
• ‘Taking Europe seriously: European financialization and US monetary power,’ Review of International Political Economy, 2021, vol 28, no 4 (with Iain Hardie), pp. 775-793. "The Habsburg myth and the European Union", Duina, F. and Merand, F. (ed.) Europe's Malaise, Research in Political Sociology, Vol. 27, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020, pp. 45-66.
   
• Oil and the western economic crisis, London: Palgrave, 2017. 

• ‘Inevitability and contingency: the political economy of Brexit,’ British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2017, vol 19, no 3, pp. 434-4. 

• ‘How the City of London lost at Brexit: a historical perspective,’ Economy and Society, 2017, vol 46, no 2, pp. 211-228.  

• ‘Enduring capital flow constraints and the 2007–2008 financial and eurozone crises,’ The British Journal of Politics and International Relations 2016, vol. 18, no 1, pp. 216–233.
   
• ‘Germany and the eurozone crisis: the European Reformation of the German banking crisis,’ New Political Economy, 2015, vol 20, no 6, pp. 851-870.
   
• ‘UK debt in comparative perspective: the pernicious legacy of financial sector debt’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2013,  vol 15, no 3, pp 476-492.
   
• ‘The limits of blaming neo-liberalism: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the financial crisis’, New Political Economy, 2012 vol. 17 no. 4. pp. 319-419.
   
• China and the mortgaging of America, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010. 
   
• Might, right, prosperity and consent: representative democracy and the international economy, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008.

Media articles

• Archive of columns for the New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/writers/324788 
   
• ‘How the EU bungled Brexit,’ UnHerd, 23 June 2021 https://unherd.com/2021/06/how-the-eu-bungled-brexit/
   
• ‘Consent: the dynamite at the heart of the British constitution,’ Prospect, 9 June 2021 https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/consent-british-constitution-referendums-brexit-europe
   
• ‘The geopolitical fight to come over green energy,’ Engelsberg Ideas, 9 March 2021 https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-geopolitical-fight-to-come-over-green-energy/ 
   
• ‘Pandemic borrowing,’ Internationale Politik Quarterly, December 2020, https://ip-quarterly.com/en/pandemic-borrowing
   
• ‘Geopolitics of a pandemic’ Engelsberg Ideas, 23 June 2020, https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/geopolitics-of-a-pandemic/
   
• ‘Low demand for oil isn’t good news,’ The Guardian, 23 April 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/23/low-demand-oil-financial-crisis-us-debt-global-economy
   
• ‘2014: the year western power collapsed,’ UnHerd 23 December 2019 https://unherd.com/2019/12/the-year-that-western-power-collapsed/
   
• ‘Mourning a phantom: the cherished “rules-based order” never existed’, Prospect, June 2019
   
• “Who will blink first: Trump or Xi?’ UnHerd 28 May 2019 https://unherd.com/2019/05/wholl-blink-first-trump-or-xi/
   
• ‘The historical burden of antisemitism’ http://www.inthelongrun.org/articles/article/the-historical-burden-of-antisemitism 
   
• ‘Brexit forever,’ https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/brexit-forever
   
• ‘The EU is flunking its Brexit opportunity,’ https://unherd.com/2019/03/the-eu-is-flunking-its-brexit-opportunity/
   
• ‘Why Europe can’t cope’ https://unherd.com/2019/02/why-europe-cant-cope/
   
• ‘Broken Europe: why the EU is stuck in perpetual crisis,’ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/europe/2018-12-10/broken-europe?cid=int-flb&pgtype=hpg
   
• ‘The unintended euro and the problem of Europe, http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2018/11/30/the-unintended-euro-and-the-problem-of-italy/
   
• ‘The midterms have shown that President Trump’s campaign rhetoric has come back to haunt him,’ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2018/11/28/the-midterms-have-shown-that-president-trumps-campaign-rhetoric-on-the-economy-has-come-back-to-haunt-him/
   
• ‘Europe’s democratic difficulties,’ https://unherd.com/2018/11/europes-democratic-difficulties/
   
• ‘The transformation of British politics: was it really caused by the crash?’ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/british-politics-after-the-2008-crash/
   
• ‘Whether oil prices rise or fall, there will always be a loser,’ https://www.ft.com/content/7dc634ee-cad4-11e8-8d0b-a6539b949662
   
• ‘Will the EU hold?’ https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n12/helen-thompson/will-it-hold
   
• ‘Want to understand what is wrong with Europe? Look at Italy.': https://t.co/5i5LU3vi8b?amp=1
   
• ‘Returning to democracy: the British Left and the constitutional temptation of the European Union': http://judicialpowerproject.org.uk/helen-thompson-returning-to-democracy-the-british-left-and-the-constitutional-temptation-of-the-european-union/
   
• ‘The illusionary norm of political stability: the unruly democratic politics of the United Kingdom': http://www.inthelongrun.org/articles/article/the-illusionary-norm-of-political-stability-the-unruly-democratic-politics-
   
• ‘Why oil matters for British politics’: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/why-oil-matters-for-british-politics/
   
• ‘Why political analysis needs probability and history to address uncertainty’: http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2017/10/09/why-political-analysis-needs-probability-and-history-to-address-uncertainty/
   
• ‘When Congress said to Donald Trump “you’re fired": https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/when-congress-said-to-donald-trump-youre-fired
   
• ‘Trump, the Russia sanctions and Europe’s energy future': http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2017/08/24/trump-the-russia-sanctions-and-europes-energy-future/
   
• ‘Revisiting groundhog day: Theresa’s May search for an EU yes’: https://www.ippr.org/juncture-item/revisiting-groundhog-day-theresa-may-s-search-for-an-eu-yes
   
• 'Why the next financial crisis is nearer than you think': https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/why-the-next-financial-crisis-is-closer-than-you-think
   
• ‘The coming crisis: we are not in Kansas any more: http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2016/05/25/the-coming-crisis-were-not-in-kansas-any-more/
   
• ‘The revolt of the country: Brexit, history and English nationhood’: http://inthelongrun.org/articles/article/the-revolt-of-the-country-brexit-history-and-english-nationhood
   
• ‘Haven’t we been here before?’: http://ukandeu.ac.uk/havent-we-been-here-before/
   
• ‘Oil: the missing story of the West’s economic and geopolitical crisis’:  http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Global-Brief-9-Oil-The-Missing-Story.pdf
   
• ‘2016 and the return of the nation-state’: http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2016/12/21/14739/
   
• ‘The dirty little secret of the euro zone crisis: the German banks’: http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2013/11/11/dirty-secret-euro-zone-crisis-german-banks/

Lectures:

'The political economy of British sovereignty': 

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/politicaleconomy/newsevnts/Governing-after-Brexit-Lectures/Governing-after-Brexit-Lectures.aspx