What if we read the U.S. National Security Strategy not as a 'normal' policy strategy but rather a declaration of business intent? My thoughts on the carrot and stick business politics of the US NSS at @opiniojuris.bsky.social opiniojuris.org/2025/12/18/t...

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

This is the point, not the by-product.

The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Löfflmann/Riemann im Museumsshop, 10/10. Nächstes Level freigeschaltet.

Eine prägnante Einführung in die Thematik der sicherheitspolitischen Zeitenwende in Deutschland findet man auch in diesem schlanken Sammelband, in dem @malteriemann.bsky.social und ich ein veritables Who's Who an Sicherheitsexperten und -expertinnen versammeln konnten.

Zum Tag der Deutschen Einheit und angesichts der andauernden Streitigkeiten zur Wiedereinsetzung der Wehrpflicht, ein paar Gedanken zur 'Zeitenwende' und zur 'temporalen Sicherheit' Deutschlands, zu der ich gegenwärtig mit dem Kollegen @malteriemann.bsky.social /1 www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

[Admin] Die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA und die Zeitenwende in Deutschland! Begrüßt unseren neuen Kurator @gloefflmann.bsky.social‬! realscientistsde.blogspot.com/2025/09/die-...

Malte Riemann www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmemb...

#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social - ‘If I could turn back time’: Temporal security narratives, ontological disruption, and Germany’s Zeitenwende - cup.org/3J64Gnq - @gloefflmann.bsky.social & @malteriemann.bsky.social #FirstView

Some exciting news to share: our new article ‘If I could turn back time’: Temporal security narratives, ontological disruption, and Germany’s Zeitenwende, co-authored by @malteriemann.bsky.social and myself, has just been published open access in @ejisbisa.bsky.social! We conceptualize Zeitenwende

Der Artikel ‘If I could turn back time’: Temporal security narratives, ontological disruption, and Germany’s Zeitenwende von @malteriemann.bsky.social und mir, der jetzt open access in @ejisbisa.bsky.social online erschienen ist, begreift die Zeitenwende als eine narrative „Neutaktung“

Update: My article on German #pacifism and the #Zeitenwende has just been published online in Defense & Security Analysis. Here's the link to free eprints:

Proofs done, new article coming out soon. And it’s a real banger! Another intellectual partnership in crime with @malteriemann.bsky.social. And will be open access too!

🧵6/10 “The mercancy concepts conditions of possibility: effeminacy, modernity and the international” by @malteriemann.bsky.social t1p.de/d3wvs

I have had death threats for my work on trans rights. I have been stalked. I have had people try and have me thrown out of my University. I am by no means alone, and lots of trans-inclusive academics have spoken publicly about the violence and harassment they face. But no mention of that here.

A must-read by @cburchett.bsky.social

Labour government ministers told tech companies they want their help to create a "prison outside of prison" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Passend zum Thema #Manifest, wird es demnächst einen Artikel von @malteriemann.bsky.social und mir in @ejisbisa.bsky.social geben mit dem Titel: ‚If I could turn back time’: Temporal Security Narratives, Ontological Disruption and Germany’s Zeitenwende. Darin setzen wir uns auseinander mit der

Happy to announce that our manuscript titled "'If I could turn back time’: Temporal Security Narratives, Ontological Disruption and Germany’s Zeitenwende, co-authored by @malteriemann.bsky.social and myself, has been accepted for publication in @ejisbisa.bsky.social. Watch this space.

Medewerkers van Universiteit Leiden trappen vandaag de estafettestaking af van de Nederlandse universiteiten tegen de kabinetsbezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs. Volg de staking in ons liveblog. www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/... #WOinactie #staking

I regret to inform you that it is very bad news when things are going worse than <checks notes> <Steve Levitsky> expected

Made it to Chicago for #ISA2025? Can’t sleep because of the jet lag? Then join us for a Saturday morning panel on strategy and ontological security. I’m presenting a paper on Germany’s Zeitenwende and the narrative reordering of temporal security, a coproduction with @malteriemann.bsky.social

Jesus Christ, this is beyond bad. Nato is de facto over. No one in their right mind can expect this president to come to the aid of anyone, ever. Or to honor any deals.

Die Diffamierung kritischer Zivilgesellschaft kommt direkt aus dem Handbuch autoritärer Regierungen. Seit Jahren AfD-Strategie, jetzt auch von der künftigen Bundesregierung – gestützt auf rechte Hetzartikel über einen ‚Deep State der NGOs‘. Es wäre zum Lachen, wenn es nicht so brandgefährlich wäre.

Wir haben gestern lange darüber gesprochen was wir tun würden wenn Autoritäre und Faschisten die Macht übernehmen. Behält man Stellen in Bürokratie und Wissenschaft, wandert man aus, wie würde man Widerstand organisieren? Als Deutscher kennt man diese Fragen. Man hat sie häufig rückblickend ... 1/

The last two weeks I've met, worked with, learned from people seeking asylum on both sides of the UK border - in our Bradford office, a community centre, and asylum hotel, and then the camps of Calais and Dunkirk. State-led dehumanisation of refugees is the key to the west's wider political crisis🧵

Dutch universities will go on strike! Against the 1.3 billion cuts! March 10: Leiden University March 11: Utrecht University March 13: University Nijmegen March 17: University of Amsterdam March 20: Maastricht University March 27: VU Amsterdam April 10: Tilburg University @woinactie.bsky.social

Later today (20:00 TR time), my talk is on ‘Eurocentrism as a limitation in the study of militarism’

Mindestens eine halbe Million Menschen waren an diesem Wochenende gegen Rechts und vor allem CDU-Chef Merz auf der Straße. Für die taz zählen @ansanews.bsky.social und ich die Teilnehmenden. Bis zur Wahl sind schon jetzt mehr als 200 Demos angekündigt: taz.de/Demos-gegen-...

Polizei: 160.000 Demonstranten in Berlin #b0202 #btw2025 www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

Protests may not have direct effects on elections but studies show that they matter - for voters on the margin, those at risk of political apathy, and new generations that don't yet cast votes but are there observing. Smart politicians with integrity will listen (the dying center right probably not)

🚨 Call for Abstracts 🚨 Cora Lacatus, @gloefflmann.bsky.social and I want your abstract 📜 for our section on 🐍'Deception and Truth in Populist Political Communication' 🐍. All info below 👇

Okay, so I've made a #German foreign policy starter pack with academics working on German foreign and security policy. I've probably forgotten a ton of people, so please let me know whom to add.

We’re going to Belfast. A stellar lineup of panels by the BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group, a book roundtable, and a cracking panel on security & temporality in IR with @malteriemann.bsky.social, @therealisthom.bsky.social, @alexhlar.bsky.social, Norma Rossi and Maria Mälksoo #BISA2025.

Das ist keine "umstrittene Wahlkampfaktion", das ist Einschüchterung und Terror. Mag sich jemand in der Redaktion beim SWR mal vorstellen, was das mit den Menschen macht, die Ziel dieses völkischen Furors sind? Und was muss noch passieren, ehe man diese Rassisten stoppt?

A list of the proposed Trump appointees, coming "from Florida, from Fox News and Fox Business, square-jawed men and women with big hair and collagen lips" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Deutschland braucht eine differenziertere Debatte über das, was in Gaza passiert. Gutes Interview dazu mit Enzo Traverso. 👇

Excited to share my new #openaccess article in @ejir.bsky.social ! Learn more here: t1p.de/khjlh

Ah, endlich fordert in der ZEIT mal wieder jemand selbstbewusst bei gleichzeitiger Unkenntnis unbegrenzte Befristung (europarechtswidrig, aber wen interessiert das schon?) & hat nicht kapiert, dass die Antwort auf „Forschung braucht Zeit“ ENTfristung ist, nicht BEfristung. #IchBinHanna #WissZeitVG

Interesting article aboutt the many ways that 'autism' (claims to, about and/or 'on behalf of' Autistics) is appropriated & weaponized by multiple factions of the far-right.This further alienates actual Autistics, promoting #ableism, #antiAutistichate and new forms of #eugenics

Coming soon(ish)! 🥳 A new, and I hope unorthodox, introduction to international theory. 2028 sure sounds like a long time away now but somehow I sense that trying to write a 120,000-word book around a full-time job will make that time just fly right by!

This fascinating study would explain why people “vote against their own economic interests”. One thing I keep hearing is that ppl who voted R in this (and other recent) US election(s) will come to regret it when their SS, medicare, other state assistance goes away. 1/

Great book launch! Thanks everyone!

Gearing up

Das freut die Herausgeber, eine sehr positive Rezension unseres Sammelbandes zur #Zeitenwende: Deutschlands Verteidigungspolitik. Nationale Sicherheit nach der Zeitenwende, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2023. | Neue Politische Literatur link.springer.com/article/10.1...