Aus gegebenem Anlass: www.ipg-journal.de/rubriken/aus... Zusammen mit @stevenlangendonk.bsky.social

The PLA purge story is dominated by concerns about Taiwan and talk of Xi’s exclusive power within the CMC. Both are mistaken. Xi lacks control over the military. He had to take Zhang Youxia down on shaky accusations because Zhang could act as a competing power centre after earlier CMC purges. 1/2

A sobering assessment on the role of the UN in world politics. harpers.org/archive/2025...

Last Friday I gave an interview to Aymeric Debongnie of Belgian newspaper L’Avenir on the tariff struggle between the US and China. Always happy to contribute to the public debate! www.lavenir.net/actu/monde/2...

EU leaders should learn two things from the tariff mess: 1. Trump backs down in the face of pressure from financiers first and political allies second 2. His plutocrat allies love market turmoil, but, like everyone else, hate unpredictability (hence the bond-selloff induced pause). (1/2)

🚨 New article alert! @stevenlangendonk.bsky.social & Edith Driessens rethink securitization with a new model of multilateral securitization. Learn how their model applies to the case of Orthodox heritage in Kosovo between 1999 and 2011. 🔍 Explore it more: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...

At this point it should be clear that US conservatives and their Silicon Valley enablers are taking us all down a slippery slope to military confrontation with China.

Edith Driessens and I have a new article out in @journalofgss.bsky.social. We highlight limits of the traditional speech act model of securitization at the multilateral level and propose a new model grounded in practice and narrative. We illustrate the added value via (1/2) doi.org/10.1093/jogs...

Tusk said, adding: “It’s striking but it’s true. Right now, 500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans for protection from 140 million Russians who have been unable to overcome 50 million Ukrainians for three years." www.politico.eu/article/dona...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Best read of the day:

Surprise! Who knew that the great short term threat to international order would come from its guarantor (the US) and not China? Europe’s leaders missed it, as did many IR scholars. Good to remember that imperial orders will fray at the edges due to outside pressure, but they implode at the core.

Very grateful for the opportunity to discuss my research on Chinese diplomacy at Fudan University last week, where we also discussed the recent special issue of Global Policy about China in the UN. The WeChat post on the conference: lnkd.in/e8KBTGvf