Sveinn M. Jóhannesson

Historian of 19th c. US at Uni of Iceland. Prev @HCAatEdinburgh. PhD @Camericanist. Forthcoming book on the Scientific-Military State w UChicago Press in 2026

[UChicagoPress @UChicagoPress]

Sveinn M. Jóhannesson, author of THE SCIENTIFIC-MILITARY STATE, discusses American imperialism, science, and social hierarchy on @campus_american. https://t.co/bpVbbMdVZU

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

Great to meet with Halla Gunnarsdóttir, leader of the VR Union, during my visit to Iceland to discuss the need for a new social contract between business, state and labour to embed equity in industrial strategy from the start.

More on the role of labour in modern industrial strategy ➡️ https://t.co/Yggg3VS9Jv

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

Glad to send this piece out into the world. It uses Iceland as a lens to knit together literatures on interwar origins of austerity, invention of the economy, international economic governance, and racialized hierarchy of international finance.

https://t.co/PWZeWlHxLM

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

Glad to send this piece out into the world. It uses Iceland as a lens to knit together literatures on interwar origins of austerity, invention of the economy, international economic governance, and racialized hierarchy of international finance.

https://t.co/PWZeWlHxLM

[Antonio Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social @Ant_FdO]

And here is the preview program for our RUG-NUPI workshop on "Global Histories of International Thought and Geopolitical Concepts". So much to look forward to!

Thank you to guest speakers and institutional partners for making this possible - watch this space...

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

@nils_gilman @markyzaguirre @shadihamid Iceland, here, as a permanent US "protectorate" and not included in what is called a federated "United States of Scandinavia"! How fascinating!

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

@DaelNorwood @SeanVanatta Fascinating! Even some of the language quoted in Sean's abstract is identical to the 1830s in connection with military engineers. Clearly a pattern of governance going on here.

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

Beautiful day in Paris and a brilliant conference

[IEA de Paris @IEAdeParis]

🚀🇺🇸C’est parti pour les 2 jours du #colloque #USDevState visant à étudier la période fondatrice du #capitalisme américain à la lumière du concept d’État développementaliste

@NMaggor #IEAFellow, N. Barreyre @EHESS_fr @ValeontiSofia @AUP_CCDS @arielronid
👉https://t.co/w0rM8ZMMOl

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

@AdrianodoVale6 I would be super grateful for a copy!

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

@katolivarius @historicallyKM @Harvard_Press @StanfordHistory Congrats, dear Kathryn!

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

Thank you for coming out!

[Ghassan Moazzin @GhassanMoazzin]

Great Panel on "Engineers and the Rule of Standards" with @LiatSpiro , Stephen Mihm, Sveinn Johannesson and JoAnn Yates

@TheBHCNews #bhc2023

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

@dan_rowe1 Congrats, Dan!

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

Such a great seminar and a brilliant discussion. Thank you!

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

Can’t wait!

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

@RrjohnR Happy to be corrected, but the military? The officer corps? As I recall it, Frymer ditches the army for land policy and “privatization” of violence. And there isn’t much cited in Rao on the military per se (no Watson or Skelton, e.g.). Violence is a much broader question.

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

@glgerstle @Het Congrats, Gary!

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

@NBarreyre @whsieh @RrjohnR @matthewstoller Yes. There is some stuff on the "administrative state" and "big government." But apart from Skelton (and, by extention, Watson), rather little on the military. And they would actually fit nicely with your and Lemarcier's critique of Novak as replacing one anomaly with another.

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

@harmsaga Mathallirnar eru að grátbiðja um það. Svo fékk (brottrekna) skrifstofufólkið hjá Eflingu náttúrulega kex í vinnunni.

[Sveinn M. Jóhannesson @s_johannesson]

@gauthamrao Have to say, Norfolk Arms (almost) across the street from BL.