Academic research

Books

Climate Geopolitics: Energy, Industrial Policy, and World Order, with Tim Sahay (in preparation)

Scientific Cosmology and International Orders, Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Cambridge University Press, 2018

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 

Bentley Allan, Shreyas Shende, and Jonas Goldman. 2025. U.S. clean energy supply chains after the Inflation Reduction Act. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2698

Yury Dvorkin, Boyu Yao, Hannah Jeong, Mahdi Mehrtash, Bentley Allan, and Daniel Ockerman. 2025. "Understanding Supply Chain Constraints for the US Clean Energy Transition." Nature Portfolio Journal (npj) Clean Energy Vol. 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s44406-025-00009-1   

Bentley Allan. 2024. Industrial Policy and the Green State. Review of International Studies. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210524000421

Bentley Allan and Jonas Nahm. 2024. Strategies of green industrial policy: How states position firms in global supply chains. American Political Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055424000364

Bentley B. Allan and Jonas Meckling. 2023. Creative Learning and Policy Ideas: The Global Rise of Green Growth. Perspectives on Politics . https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592721000037

Bentley Allan, Joanna Lewis, and Thomas Oatley. 2021. Green Industrial Policy and the Global Transformation of Climate Politics. Global Environmental Politics Vol. 21, No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00640

Jonas Meckling and Bentley B. Allan. 2020. The Evolution of Ideas in Global Climate Policy. Nature Climate Change Vol. 10: 432-438. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0739-7

Bentley B. Allan. 2019. Paradigm and Nexus: Neoclassical Economics and the Growth Imperative in the World Bank, 1948-2000. Review of International Political Economy Vol. 26, No. 1: 183-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2018.1543719

Bentley B. Allan, Srdjan Vucetic, and Ted Hopf. 2018. The Distribution of Identity and the Future of International Order. International Organization Vol. 72, No. 3: 839-869. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818318000267

Bentley B. Allan. 2018. From Subjects to Objects: Knowledge in Anglo-American International Relations Theory. European Journal of International Relations Vol. 24, No. 4: 841-864 http://doi.org/10.1177/1354066117741529

Bentley B. Allan. 2018. Social Action in Quantum Social Science. Millennium Vol. 47, No. 1 (2018): 87-98.https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818781690

Bentley B. Allan. 2017. “Second Only to Nuclear War”: Science and the Making of Existential Threat in Global Climate Governance. International Studies Quarterly Vol. 61, No. 4: 809-820. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqx048

Bentley B. Allan. 2017. Producing the Climate: States, Scientists, and the Constitution of Global Governance Objects.International OrganizationVol. 71, No. 1: 131-162.http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020818316000321

Global Policy Research

Bentley Allan, Catherine Goldberg, Jonas Goldman, Renato H. de Gaspi, Rebecca Han, Ishana Ratan, Tim Sahay, Shreyas Shende, and Maximiliano Véjares. Mapping the Global Race for Clean Energy Manufacturing Introducing the Clean Energy Industrial Capabilities Explorer. Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab Policy Brief No. 9.https://www.netzeropolicylab.com/s/NZIPL_PB09_Introducing-CICE.pdf

Tim Sahay, Praveena Bandara, Jonas Nahm, Renato H de Gaspi, Ishana Ratan, Bentley Allan, João Carlos Ferraz, Carlos Frederico Leão Rocha, Marta Castilho, Wilson Peres, Alvaro Ons, Nimrod Zalk. Principles for Cooperation and Competition in a World of Industrial Policy. Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab Policy Brief No. 8.https://www.netzeropolicylab.com/principles-cooperation-industrial-policy

Bentley Allan and Catherine Goldberg. 2025. Joining Forces: How the G7 Critical Minerals Production Alliance Can Become a Real Investment Club. Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab Policy Brief No. 7. https://www.netzeropolicylab.com/s/PB07-Joining-Forces-Critical-Minerals-Club-vf.pdf

Tim Sahay, Kritika Kapoor, Bentley Allan. BRICS going green. Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab Geopolitical Brief No. 5

Maximiliano Véjares, Renato H. de Gaspi, Tim Sahay, Cathy Wang, Jonas Goldman, Bentley Allan. Seizing Mexico’s Green Industrial Opportunities in the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape. Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab Geopolitical Brief No. 4

Adriana Mandacaru Guerra, Tim Sahay, Renato H. De Gaspi, and Bentley Allan. 2025. New industrial policy for a new world: Seizing Brazil’s opportunities in the energy transition. Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab Geopolitical Brief No. 3. https://www.netzeropolicylab.com/brazil-new-world

Tim Sahay, Hannah Jeong, and Bentley Allan. 2024. South Korea’s Promise and Pitfalls in the Cold War Clean Energy Race: Autos, Batteries and Chips Supply Chains. Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab Geopolitical Brief No. 2 (GP02). https://www.netzeropolicylab.com/s/GP02-South-Korea-geopolitical-brief-vf.pdf

Jonas Goldman and Bentley Allan. 2024. The IRA and the Battery Supply Chain. Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab Policy Brief No. 3 (PB03). https://www.netzeropolicylab.com/s/PB03-IRA-Battery-vf.pdf

Jonas Goldman and Bentley Allan. 2023. Why Adding Australia to the Defense Production Act’s Domestic Sources is a Powerful Tool. Policy Brief No. 2. Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab Policy Brief No. 2 (PB02). https://www.netzeropolicylab.com/s/PB02-DPA-Friendshoring-vf-2.pdf

Cathy Wang and Bentley Allan. 2023. Chinese Investment in Global Mining. Policy Brief No. 1. Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab Policy Brief No. 1 (PB01). https://www.netzeropolicylab.com/s/PB01-China-critical-minerals-investment-vf.pdf

Hannah Jeong and Bentley Allan. 2023. Morocco’s Position in Emerging Clean Energy Supply Chains. Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab Geopolitical Brief No. 1 (GP01).  https://www.netzeropolicylab.com/s/GP01-Morocco-vf.pdf

US & Canada Policy Research

Bentley Allan, Travis Southin, James Meadowcroft, and Moe Kabbara. 2025. Building the Future Economy: Canada’s Competitiveness and Autonomy in a Changing World. Transition Accelerator. https://transitionaccelerator.ca/reports/building-the-future-economy/

Travis Southin, Bentley Allan, et al. 2025. The Right Move at the Right Time: A New Canadian Industrial Strategy. International Institute for Sustainable Development, Clean Prosperity, Canadian Climate Institute, and The Transition Accelerator. https://transitionaccelerator.ca/reports/the-right-move-at-the-right-time/

Bentley Allan. 2025. Regaining Geopolitical Advantage: A Strategic Approach for U.S. Overseas Investment. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/02/regaining-geopolitical-advantage-how-to-focus-us-foreign-policy-for-clean-energy?lang=en

Bentley Allan, Milo McBride, Noah Gordon, Daniel Helmeci, Jonas Goldman, Daevan Mangalmurti, Debbra Goh, and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz. 2025. How the U.S. Can Stop Losing the Race for Clean Energy. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/02/how-the-us-can-stop-losing-the-race-for-clean-energy?lang=en

Noah Gordon, Bentley Allan, Daniel Helmeci, and Jonas Goldman. 2024. Focusing Industrial Strategy: Which Clean Energy Supply Chains Should Have Priority? Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/12/focusing-industrial-strategy-which-clean-energy-supply-chains-should-have-priority

Bentley Allan and Derek Eaton. 2024. Getting Prices Right: Securing Critical Minerals Demand to Catalyze Canadian Mine Development. Centre for Net-Zero Industrial Policy. https://netzeroindustrialpolicy.ca/reports/getting-prices-right/

Jonas Goldman, Noah J. Gordon, Bentley Allan, and Daniel Baer. 2024. How America Can Win the Coming Battery War. Foreign Affairs. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/how-america-can-win-coming-battery-war

Bentley Allan and Derek Eaton. 2024. Getting Prices Right: Securing Critical Minerals Demand to Catalyze Canadian Mine Development. Centre for Net-Zero Industrial Policyhttps://netzeroindustrialpolicy.ca/reports/getting-prices-right/

Moe Kabbara, Bentley Allan, and Travis Southin. 2024. Canadian Battery Innovation Roadmap. Accelerate ZEV Alliance. https://acceleratezev.ca/reports/agKEN3q7BV

Bentley Allan and Derek Eaton. 2024. The Mass Timber Roadmap: An Integrated Forest-to-Buildings Value Chain. Transition Accelerator. https://transitionaccelerator.ca/reports/the-mass-timber-roadmap/  

Bentley Allan, Jonas Goldman, and Derek Eaton. 2024. Electrons, Rocks, and Brains: Canada’s Power in the New Geopolitical Order. Transition Accelerator. https://transitionaccelerator.ca/reports/electrons-rocks-and-brains/