📖 New Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Why AI Won’t Save Your Writing The Brown University political economist talks irritation, PowerPoint & why the page is still the only place where real thinking happens. Read → catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-... 🧵

Do you assign them Immanuel Kant? Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding, that’s the motto of the enlightenment (and a compelling reason to keep the AI away from teaching imo)

‘The project that was meant to unite Europe and bring the nations of Europe closer together, seems to be pushing them further apart from each other’, or so I argue in a conversation with Ralph Schoellhammer on @brusselssignal.bsky.social Thanks for the invite, Ralph youtu.be/pz56R-CWRnY?...

‘The project that was meant to unite Europe and bring the nations of Europe closer together, seems to be pushing them further apart from each other’, or so I argue in a conversation with Ralph Schoellhammer on @brusselssignal.bsky.social Thanks for the invite, Ralph youtu.be/pz56R-CWRnY?...

Happy to see my letter on Thomas Mann & Russia in @financialtimes.com. Sad to see his take on Russia vindicated. “Great space, much time” explains “the recklessness of these people”, argued Settembrini. “They are the nation that has time and can wait. We Europeans, we cannot.”

“Auer’s European Disunion is an erudite personal essay about the state of the European Union by a teacher & thinker who has followed the European integration process for a long time…” shs.cairn.info/journal-poli...

“Reading Auer is sometimes pleasant, sometimes a little strenuous.” Grateful for this balanced review by Anja Thomas of my book in the latest issue of Politique Européenne

Many thanks to Knud-Erik Jørgensen, Tonny Brems Knudsen & Laura Landorff for inviting me to contribute to their edited book 'Europe's World' bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-world. My chapter assesses the EU's response to Russia's aggression and violence in Ukraine @brisunipress.bsky.social

“Reading Auer is sometimes pleasant, sometimes a little strenuous.” Grateful for this balanced review by Anja Thomas of my book in the latest issue of Politique Européenne

Are secessionist entities in the post-Soviet space mere puppets in the hands of the Kremlin or do they have bargaining power of their own? Our latest PhD, Maximilian Ohle, argues the latter, even if this power is highly constrained. #Abkhazia #Transnistria @unituebingen.bsky.social

Thrilled to see Nicole Scicluna’s and my own article about the necessity and impossibility of Ukraine’s membership in the EU being one of the most read outputs on @jcms-eu.bsky.social

Thrilled to see Nicole Scicluna’s and my own article about the necessity and impossibility of Ukraine’s membership in the EU being one of the most read outputs on @jcms-eu.bsky.social

It’s been 3 years since its publication by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social so I am all the more grateful to the editors of the Czech Journal of International Relations for publishing a critical review article of my book, European Disunion. 🙏 @stredoevropan.bsky.social cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

‘European Disunion is distinct from the more academic works on the conflicts of sovereignty in the EU … [as it] skilfully integrates political theory, especially Carl Schmitt’s critique of liberal supranational projects, with a political analysis of recent events’🙏to Jana Vargovcikova for the review

Our dilemma: what if Russia doesn’t collapse for another decade or longer? Is Europe strong enough to help Ukraine to repel the invasion and deter Putin?

Our dilemma: what if Russia doesn’t collapse for another decade or longer? Is Europe strong enough to help Ukraine to repel the invasion and deter Putin?

Now with a blog by N. Scicluna: “Would-be Russian tourists are not an obvious target for sympathy. But putting aside the substance of the dispute, the larger issue is that of creeping member state unilateralism and the Commission’s permissiveness towards it.” jcms.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/03/26/e...

Been making this point too to academic colleagues traveling to the US - if you are anxious fly via Dublin or Shannon both with US immigration preclearance. Your US fight then lands as domestic.

Now with a blog by N. Scicluna: “Would-be Russian tourists are not an obvious target for sympathy. But putting aside the substance of the dispute, the larger issue is that of creeping member state unilateralism and the Commission’s permissiveness towards it.” jcms.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/03/26/e...

🌟 Scholar Spotlight: Peter J. Verovšek 🌟 @pjv.bsky.social examines how generational shifts shape European integration, explaining why progress has stalled and what the future may hold. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“Sardaryan, Dean of the School of Governance and Politics at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, stressed that the long-term outlook is very positive for Russia, since the United States under Trump has pleasingly abandoned the principles of international law”

“Sardaryan, Dean of the School of Governance and Politics at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, stressed that the long-term outlook is very positive for Russia, since the United States under Trump has pleasingly abandoned the principles of international law”

Überzeugt mich nicht. Ich habe viel von Auer gelernt, der Merkels Krisenmanagement als “too technocratic and too political“ kritisiert hat. SPD und Bündnis 90/Grüne stehen in dieser Tradition. Leider stärkt diese Strategie paradoxerweise die rechten Parteien spectator.clingendael.org/en/publicati...

🇺🇦Supreme Court: mobilization is "irreversible", when it was unlawful it does not change the situation of the kidnapped person: t.me/stranaua/189... 👉Once the war is over a complete ssessment of Ukraine's adherence to EU values has to be redone: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @stefanauer.bsky.social

My op ed from today's @irishtimes.com. Ukraine must not capitulate to a forced deal with Russia irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... @kyivindependent.com @timothysnyder.bsky.social #UkraineRussiaWar #justwar #PhilosophyMatters

‘The experience of countries of migration (eg 🇦🇺) shows that there is a troubling relationship between public acceptance of migration and the (perceived) porousness of borders. Electorates are more likely to support migration when they believe their government remains in control of migration flows.’

‘If the unique accomplishment of German political culture is that Germans are proud of not being proud of their nation, why should anyone make sacrifices — including the ultimate one of risking their life — for a nation whose membership is meant to be shameful?’ revdem.ceu.edu/2025/03/14/f...

‘German multiculturalism “has failed, utterly failed,” Angela Merkel said in 2010. The irony is that Merkel contributed to this failure more than any other German chancellor in recent history — not with words but with deeds.’ Or so I argue here 👇

‘If the unique accomplishment of contemporary 🇩🇪 political culture is that Germans are proud of not being proud of their nation, why should anyone make sacrifices —including the ultimate one of risking their life —for a nation whose membership is meant to be shameful?’ revdem.ceu.edu/2025/03/14/f...

‘German multiculturalism “has failed, utterly failed,” Angela Merkel said in 2010. The irony is that Merkel contributed to this failure more than any other German chancellor in recent history — not with words but with deeds.’ Or so I argue here 👇

“the EU does not need to be a Weberian state, nor be destined to become one, for the state-building perspective to shed new light on its processes of political development.” Has your assessment changed now that the EU has been exposed as unable to defend itself without the U.S. support?

It’s nice to see my 2015 paper ‘Carl Schmitt in the Kremlin’ cited in Munich Security Report 2025. I warned about Russia’s ‘Großraum’ ambitions back then (when all such warnings were largely ignored). securityconference.org/publikatione...

And what about Europeans? Aren’t Europeans also “inches away from betraying our fellow European ally and friend, Ukraine”?

He talked about internal security. The two are connected, as Vance explained. And as Scholz said a while ago (without doing much about it): “ohne Sicherheit ist alles nichts“.

This would be a great plan, if it could be made to work. Who and how will secure Ukraine though?

Nope

Does anyone still believe that euro would replace US 💵 as *the* reserve currency for the world? It’s amazing that my statement was controversial just 3 days ago.

Does anyone still believe that euro would replace US 💵 as *the* reserve currency for the world? It’s amazing that my statement was controversial just 3 days ago.

EU doesn’t even need unhinged leaders to fall apart. Its problems are systemic. No chance of euro replacing US 💵

Good luck with that. Isn’t there a massive tree imbalance between the US and the EU?

Good luck with that. Isn’t there a massive tree imbalance between the US and the EU?

In a time in which military power matters again, EUrope is no much to the US.

Agreed & I am freaking out, this is not discussed in public right now — non-stop. Instead, we are still fully focused on belittling 🇺🇸, not realizing we will be in deep(er) troubles ourselves soon. Don’t get me wrong: it’s awful what’s going on in US, but I know 🇪🇺 publics only care bc they feel safe.

EU doesn’t even need unhinged leaders to fall apart. Its problems are systemic. No chance of euro replacing US 💵

I gave a Citizenship Apartheid seminar at 🇭🇰@HKU Law chaired by SKLee & drawing inter alia on a brief paper for @ElgarPublishing Encyclopaedia Prof Kostakopoulou is editing: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Thanks to all the Hong Kong colleagues for the generous engagement @stefanauer.bsky.social ❗️

‘I want to be clear’, von der Leyen said, ‘Europe will safeguard its economic and national security’. 2 problems with that: 1. EUrope is not a nation and thus has no *national* security to safeguard; 2. EUrope is not a security actor anyway. It depends on the US for protection.

‘Wer den Aufstieg der AfD stoppen will, darf nicht an einer Migrationspolitik festhalten, deren Versagen auf vielen Feldern sichtbar ist. Die Bluttaten von Migranten sind die schlimmsten Zeichen des Scheiterns’ www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

Do you assign them Immanuel Kant? Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding, that’s the motto of the enlightenment (and a compelling reason to keep the AI away from teaching imo)

‘Wer den Aufstieg der AfD stoppen will, darf nicht an einer Migrationspolitik festhalten, deren Versagen auf vielen Feldern sichtbar ist. Die Bluttaten von Migranten sind die schlimmsten Zeichen des Scheiterns’ www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

Just chilling 🏝️ 😎