Can governments scapegoat the #IMF 🌐 to avoid domestic #blame for austerity policies? 🏦📉 In a study with @rodabouharb.bsky.social @uclspp.bsky.social & Bernhard Reinsberg @uofgsocsci.bsky.social, published in @gsqjournal.bsky.social #GSQ, we put this claim to a test: doi.org/10.1093/isag...

I had a great time in Rome talking with government delegations and #UN officials about how disengagement and funding cuts by the #US under the second #Trump Administration are impacting their work and how #Europe is responding. 🇺🇳🇪🇺

Die 18. ECIB Tagung war ein voller Erfolg! Innovative Ansätze, lebhafte Diskussionen und drei Tage, die die Bandbreite der #IB gezeigt haben. Besonders dankbar sind wir unseren Diskutant:innen, deren Input unseren Austausch so wertvoll gemacht hat. Bis zum nächsten Mal!

🎓One month left to apply for our new M.A. in Global Public Policy at @lmu.de #LMU!

At Germany’s #UN 🇺🇳 city, I had the pleasure of accepting the Biannual Dissertation Award of the UN Association of Germany #DGVN last Friday for my research on #US withdrawal and its impact on #multilateralism. dgvn.de/aktivitaeten... Credit for images: Michelle Gassner | DGVN Landesverband NRW

Can member states hide behind IOs, like the #EU, when their policies become contested? 🇪🇺🐐 A joint paper with Bernhard Zangl, Juliane Glovania & Louisa Klein-Bölting investigating this question was just published in the latest issue of the @risjnl.bsky.social #RIS: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

How are today’s challenges, from global warming to disease prevention to cyber security, shaped by the interplay of national, European, and international policies? 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇳 🎓The new M.A. in Global Public Policy at @lmu.de #LMU will equip students with the analytical tools to answer these questions!

How has #Trump 2.0 challenged the rules-based order? Is the transition into a power-based order inevitable? For the @eui-eu.bsky.social #EUIResearch, I took stock of one year of Trump’s 2nd presidency: www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

🔎 New interview w/ @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social exploring how global governance might evolve under Trump II — from erosion of multilateral norms to renewal via new coalitions. ➡️ https://loom.ly/jxEueE8

At #MSC2026, #Germany & #EU should put #multilateralism centre stage. Sustaining the rules-based order is in Europe's core strategic interest, as I discussed with @horbankatharina.bsky.social for @table.media: table.media/security/ana... Some key takeaways below👇

🆕 ENSURED Blog! Trump’s renewed withdrawals from international institutions echo Trump 1.0. A new ENSURED blog by @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social distils 3 lessons for defending IOs. 🔑 takeaway: Western powers & the EU must preserve the rules-based order! 📝: www.ensuredeurope.eu/blog/three-l...

1 year into #Trump's new take on #AmericaFirst 🇺🇸 what is similar and what is different to his first term? 3 lessons from Trump 1.0 about responding to renewed institutional contestation by Trump 2.0 in my contribution to @iajournal.bsky.social's blog: medium.com/internationa...

How are #France 🇫🇷 and #Germany 🇩🇪 driving European 🇪🇺 #security and #defense policy? 🛡️ Moritz Weiss will discuss this question with Alexandre A. Vulic of the French Consulate in Munich & Walburga von Lerchenfeld of the #CSU Foreign and Security Policy working group.

How do #tax systems reveal #gender #inequity? In her guest lecture at the @bagss-bamberg.bsky.social, Laura Seelkopf will explore the roots of gender-based discrimination in European taxes! #BAGSS #BAGSSGuestLecture #SocialSciences

What shapes #publicopinion about int' #trade agreements in times of #populism and #geopolitics? In today’s presentation at our joint colloquium, @robert-a-huber.bsky.social argued that trade agreements with provisions that protect the #environment attract more public support!

🎉🏆 Sustainability Prize of the @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #LMU Social Science Faculty for the Brussels excursion accompanying the seminar "EU External Crisis Management." Congratulations to the organizers Sandra Bandemer, Kathrin Will & Amelie Schrenk!

How should #Europe 🇪🇺 and #Germany 🇩🇪 respond to the #US 🇺🇸 turn away from int’ law under #Trump? I had the great opportunity to talk about this question with @ferdimeyen.bsky.social for Bavarian public broadcasting #BR @br24.de: www.br.de/nachrichten/...

🇺🇸⚡️🇺🇳 Great to see the timely Special Issue ‘Trumpism and Global Governance’ published in Global Public Policy and Governance #GPPG! @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & I argue that the #destruction of GG is not inevitable but that #Europe can promote its #renewal: doi.org/10.1007/s435...

Why are liberal #democracies and institutions like the #UN & #WTO in crisis? @cknill.bsky.social, B. Rittberger & B. Zangl argue in an interview with @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #LMU press team that the very factors that have made #liberal orders strong can also lead to their destabilization!

Do #governments use int' organizations to avoid #blame for policies that are unpopular domestically? 🌐😡 In our contribution to #RIO @the-peio.bsky.social, @tommccraehunter.bsky.social, @sujeongshim.bsky.social & I explore this question in the case of the #IMF: lnkd.in/d6kyAxKj

Happy to be part of the topical special issue ‘Still a Reliable Ally?’ about #Trump 2.0, edited by @atlanticboeller.bsky.social & Jakob Wiedekind: link.springer.com/journal/1239...

As #Latvia 🇱🇻 will soon represent the #EU 🇪🇺 in the #UNSC 🇺🇳, I had the pleasure to discuss with @latvijasradio.bsky.social about the current challenges to #multilateralism posed by the disengagement of the great powers #US 🇺🇸, #China 🇨🇳 and #Russia 🇷🇺: www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas...

Is there a more Munich way to end the year than heading to a beergarden for Bavarian curling? 🥌❄️ Cold air, warm drinks, friendly competition, and plenty of laughs accompanied the winter event of the teams Seelkopf, Rittberger & Zangl. Happy holidays and all the best for 2026!

📣 Tomorrow at #LMU (16 Dec): "Left, right, or just vibes? A conversation about political thought, ideology, and myth in the modern American political landscape" – with GSI’s Sebastian Schindler & Americanist Alexandra Schenke Register here: forms.gle/iB9oM4qh8h2e...

What can we learn from Trump 1.0 for Trump 2.0 🇺🇸 and the future of the liberal international order #LIO? 🌐 In a recent study in @iajournal.bsky.social, I assessed #Trump 1.0’s attacks against int’ institutions and their consequences: doi.org/10.1093/ia/i... Key findings & implications👇

LMU-Politologe @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social untersucht wie internationale Organisationen ohne die Unterstützung der #USA handlungsfähig bleiben können und warum #Europa jetzt gefordert ist, multilaterale Strukturen zu stabilisieren. 🌍 🤝 #LMUMuenchen #Multilateralismus www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...

I am deeply honored to have received the #DeutscherStudienpreis by Julia Kloeckner @bundestag.de🏆🇩🇪 This PhD award by the #KoerberStiftung values rigorous, societally relevant research – which is exactly what I strive for in my work @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #LMU & @eui-eu.bsky.social #EUI!

📣 New research: In a new paper, @bendassler.bsky.social, together with Angelo Gerber-Helm and @mirkoheinzel.bsky.social, analyses how newly created contender institutions navigate their pre-existing institutional environments: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does #Trump 2.0 mean the decline of global governance and the resurgence of traditional great-power politics? The death of global governance is not inevitable but will depend on how major powers respond, argue @benjaminfaude.bsky.social and I in a recent article: doi.org/10.1007/s435... 👇

The first #G20 summit in Africa was overshadowed by #US absence. What does this tell us about this institution – and int' politics more generally in the age of Trumpism? I had the pleasure to share my views about these questions with Romain Chanson for @jeuneafrique.com 👇

Back in #Brussels and very much looking forward to a week packed with conversations about Europe’s support for #multilateralism with #EU, #NATO, #UN, and government officials as well as researchers of the @ensured.bsky.social & EU NAVIGATOR projects! 🇪🇺 🇺🇳

🥳🏆🇺🇳 Tim Heinkelmann-Wild receives the #DGVN's 2025 Dissertation Award for his research on the #resilience of #multilateralism after #US withdrawal! dgvn.de/meldung/dgvn...

When do liberal orders become self-undermining? @cknill.bsky.social, Andreas Kruck, Berthold Rittberger, Laura Seelkopf & Bernhard Zangl provide answers to this timely question! Check out the introduction to their new Special Issue in @jeppjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

I am deeply honored that my PhD thesis on the #US withdrawal from #multilateralism has been selected for the biannual dissertation award of the #UN Association of Germany #DGVN! 🇩🇪🇺🇳🏆 dgvn.de/meldung/dgvn...

Is the #US 🇺🇸 disengagement from the #LIO a Trump-specific or a more general phenomenon? Treating #Trump as a mere aberration risks overlooking structural forces that are driving the US away from the LIO, argue Leonard Schütte (@belfercenter.bsky.social) and I in #ZFAS: doi.org/10.1007/s123...

„In Ländern wie Deutschland […] haben verheiratete #Frauen im Durchschnitt einen höheren Steuersatz als ledige.“ betont Laura Seelkopf. Die #LMU-Wissenschaftlerin untersucht, wie #Steuersysteme Menschen unterschiedlich behandeln – und was das für Gleichstellung und Wirtschaft bedeutet. 🔎

How can member states convince citizens to support #compliance with contested #EU policies? 🇪🇺 In our recent contribution to @govjournal.bsky.social , Asya Zhelyazkova, @thijslin.bsky.social, Agnieszka Kanas and I draw on a survey experiment to examine the effectiveness of different strategies👇

I am excited to spend the coming academic year as a Max Weber Fellow at the @eui-eu.bsky.social – Europe’s “Hogwarts,” as The Economist recently put it.

International politics becomes increasingly (geo-)politicized. How do IOs respond? Which are resilient and which decay? Our panel at the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference in Thessaloniki today provided answers to these questions 👇 #ecprgc25 #Geopolitics #IR

Our book "European Blame Games“, co-authored by Berthold Rittberger, Bernhard Zangl, and Lisa Kriegmair (#OUP, 2024), was reviewed by Doris Wydra (@sceus.bsky.social) for @poppublicsphere.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Der Rückzug der #USA 🇺🇸 aus internationalen Institutionen unter Donald #Trump ist nicht so außergewöhnlich wie oft angenommen argumentiere ich in meinem neusten Beitrag in der #ZIB (@zibjournal.bsky.social | @dvpw.bsky.social): www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0946...

Zwei Auszeichnungen für die #LMU beim Deutschen Studienpreis 2025 🏆: @angelikadannert.bsky.social und @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social beeindrucken mit Forschung zu Demenz und internationaler Politik. #LMUMuenchen #DeutscherStudienpreis #Dissertation Mehr dazu hier: www.lmu.de/de/die-lmu/d...

Since I started working in academia, it has been my ambition to conduct rigorous research on topics that matter. This is why I am particularly thrilled about the #DeutscherStudienpreis of the #Körber-Stiftung, that puts emphasis on the societal relevance next to the excellency of PhD theses.

🏆 German Thesis Award for Dr. Tim Heinkelmann-Wild 🥳 @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social has been awarded the #DeutscherStudienpreis of the #KörberStiftung for his dissertation on the withdrawal of the USA from int' institutions. He received a 2nd prize of 10,000 Euros in the Social Sciences.

Liberalism doomed the Liberal International Order #LIO argue Stacie Goddard, Ronald R. Krebs, @ckreudersonnen.bsky.social, and Berthold Rittberger in @foreignaffairs.com: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

📢 4.-7.8.: Summer School „Gender in Gesellschaft, Medien und Politik“ der sozialwiss. Fakultät der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, organisiert von Nora Lege (Ifs), Corinna Lauerer (@ifkw.bsky.social) & @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich zum Rahmenprogramm eingeladen👇

🏆🤓 I am deeply grateful for the Dissertation Award of the Münchener Universitätsgesellschaft #MUG of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #LMU: www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...

What explains the crisis of liberal orders? At this term‘s Research Colloquium of the Siemens Foundation, Laura Seelkopf and Berthold Rittberger presented an application for an inter-disciplinary DFG SFB “Failing through success? Stabilization-destabilization paradoxes in liberal orders”.

Professor Philipp Rehm (John Hopkins University) visited our institute to share his insights about #inequality, #mobility and the #elections: www.gsi.uni-muenchen.de/lehreinheite...

Heute bin ich gerne etwas früher aufgestanden, um für Bayern 2 “Die Welt von Morgen” mit Christina Wolf darüber zu sprechen, ob #Multilateralismus angesichts von #Trump 2.0 und der #UN Budget-Krise noch eine Zukunft hat. Ab 7:33 gehts los: www.br.de/radio/live/b...