Fabio Parasecoli (@fparasecoli.bsky.social)

@globalsociety.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:15 AMReposted by @fparasecoli.bsky.social

The first article in Global Society 40(4) is "The Struggle for Wheat: The Weaponization of Trade Interdependence in the Russia-Ukraine War" by @fparasecoli.bsky.social and Mihai Varga.

It's #OpenAccess, so do follow the link below and give it a read! 👇

This article analyses how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has weaponized global wheat interdependence and explores the applicability of the weaponized interdependence (WI) framework to substitutable agricultural commodities. It traces Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian Black Sea and Danube ports, the Black Sea Grain Initiative, and subsequent rerouting of Ukrainian exports through EU overland corridors, showing how these moves reshaped trade flows, sparked farmer protests in Central and Eastern Europe, and enabled Russia’s “grain diplomacy” in parts of the Global South. The article argues that wheat’s substitutability and the reconfigurability of export infrastructures make chokepoints and hubs more transitory, generating shifting dependencies rather than stable hierarchies. Building on process-tracing of trade disruptions, policy responses, and fieldwork with Ukrainian and EU-border farmers, the article suggests a typology of weaponization outcomes based on the substitutability of goods and infrastructures.

@fparasecoli.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 1:10 PM

Please join us on October 19th at 12 pm for this talk on Punjabi food in the American West. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@aguirresarobe.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 8:54 AMReposted by @fparasecoli.bsky.social

Stay tuned for the new online event on Food and Nationalism organized by the Leiden University Nationalism Network on Monday 21 September with @atsukoichijo.bsky.social, @fparasecoli.bsky.social and Prof. Peter Scholliers.

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

@fparasecoli.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 12:50 PM

Join Peter Scholliers, Atsuko Ichijo and myself on September 21st at 9:15 am US Eastern Time (15:15 Netherlands time) for an online panel discussion on Food and Nationalism at the Leiden University Nationalism Network. Free and open to the public www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

@fparasecoli.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 11:12 AM

Full recap of the course I taught in Shanghai

@fparasecoli.bsky.social Sep 2, 2026, 12:24 PM

The new book I edited with Loïc Bienassis (IECHA) is finally out! Among its great chapters, it includes my essay on food heritage in Poland #FoodHeritage #foodstudies