Jonathan Blake
Jonathan Blake is the Associate Director of Programs at the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles, California, where he leads research projects within the Planetary Program. With a background in political science, he has built a career focused on planetary politics, governance, ethnic conflict, and migration. He is co-author, with Nils Gilman, of Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises (2024) and the author of Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland (2019). He has held research roles at the RAND Corporation, the Columbia Global Policy Initiative, and the Chumir Foundation, and his work has appeared in outlets such as Noema—where he serves as Associate Editor—The Atlantic, Boston Review, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, and various academic journals.