Third paper from our #assetstruggles SI online! Mareike Beck makes the very important point that assets can also fuel conflict within households, often taking a gendered form not only because of the gender wealth gap but also because of qualitative differences in the assets women and men hold.

Slowly catching up with recent posts on @phenomenalworld.bsky.social . @thunen.bsky.social interview on empire and suicide is simply great. phenomenalworld.org/interviews/e...

„Bildung ist eine zentrale Zukunftsinvestition“, schreibt das Bundeskanzleramt. Doch jetzt plant die Bundesregierung massive Kürzungen bei den Universitäten. Das gefährdet Forschung, Lehre und damit unsere gemeinsame Zukunft. mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/un...

Chernobyl museum destroyed in yesterday’s attack

I grew up watching Arte documentaries and if you ever told me I'd be in one on Money, I'd have laughed incredulously. www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...

Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf 📅 Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2027 um 13.00 🏛️ Start am Ring vor dem Hauptgebäude der Uni Wien www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...

I have 3 reviews sitting on my desk right now and I’ve been avoiding them bc of how long it’s going to take to look up every reference to see if it’s hallucinated. This is not sustainable.

BREAKING: Viktor Orbán quits Hungary's parliament after 36 years – confirming my earlier scoop that he's planning a longer US trip this summer, where heads of the Orbán business empire – his daughter and son-in-law – already live, and where he could possibly seek refuge from prosecution.

Great news for the WZB!

There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China. But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves. New paper & thread 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

single-member district results rn at #HungarianElections –– landslide for #TISZA, #Fidesz is washed away. Also a personal 1st: voted for someone who actually won the first time in my life

Orbán declared defeat

Hungary: National parliament election Turnout at 3:00 PM CEST 2010: 46.78% 2014: 45.02% 2018: 53.64% 2022: 52.75% 2026: 66.01% Source: Nemzeti Választási Iroda ➤ europeelects.eu/hungary #Hungary

Seen in Budapest

Great analysis of the political economy of Orbán's rule, and why it is now coming apart.

If you have not followed the Hungarian election campaign here is a primer. Be prepared for many nasty twists

What a depressing email to wake up to. 1. Of all the books to review, Nature chose the one by a propagandist of Orbán? 2. I published “The Far Right Today” with Polity, thinking they would become my main publisher. Despite some dubious publications, they were solid. Then a new editor arrived.

Always hugely insightful to listen to Helen Thompson.

If so, Europe must abandon the omnibus deregulatory onslaught and instead resuscitate its ability to plan the damn green transition

very thoughtful thread on the challenges lying ahead for Hungary even in the best of all bad cases.

join @filipkostelka.bsky.social @zsofia-v.bsky.social Imogen Bayley & me in Florence @eui-eu.bsky.social or via Zoom on 16 April, as we discuss the implications of the #HungarianElection 🇭🇺🗳️ Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

My new study is out with @feps-europe.eu. "Laboratories of Counter-Hegemony: Orbán, Trump and the Transatlantic Far-Right Ecosystem" maps the infrastructure that has turned a small Central European country into a launchpad for reorganizing the Western right. 🧵 1/9 👉 feps-europe.eu/publication/...

Apply!!!! I can think of a number of amazing IPE/CPE scholars 3-5 years from their PhDs who would be extremely well qualified for this position and could *diversify* Max Planck intellectually, geographically, and demographically.

Great opportunity for politcal economists career.mpifg.de/jobposting/3...

Polexit? Not quite yet

Germany in a nutshell. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

A new beginning in Göttingen 👋🤗 The #MaxPlanckInstitute for Political and Social Sciences launches under Ursula Daxecker & Steffen Mau addressing social & political challenges, including democratic backsliding, social inequality & conflict www.ips.mpg.de @steffenmau.bsky.social

Some good background on the upcoming Hungarinan elections. "For the first time, the regime is asking voters to tolerate autocracy and rampant corruption without delivering rising living standards in return."

The deadline for this year's CEEISA proposals - papers, panels, and roundtables - is April 10, 2026. The theme - Contesting Imperialism(s) - could not be more urgent, and Sarajevo and its history are an important vantage point from which to reconsider empires, their legacies, and their future!

Bratwurst, Bier, Bürgerbüro: Die AfD will nicht nur gewählt werden, sie will das Dorfleben übernehmen. Ein Strategiepapier aus Rheinland-Pfalz zeigt, wie aus Grillabenden politische Infrastruktur wird, um so rechtsextreme Positionen weiter zu normalisieren. www.belltower.news/afd-strategi...

Less then 10 days left to apply for the interdisciplinary Joint Master's Programme in Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz www.jointdegree.eu/en/news/call...

Truly insightful analysis by the great @cornelban.bsky.social .

IR faculty with sabbaticals next year - McGill has a one-semester (Fall 2026 or Winter 2027) visiting professorship. It pays $21,000 CAD and entails teaching a small graduate course and hanging out with us. DEADLINE IS MARCH 27. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree....

A new fascinating paper by @thunen.bsky.social has dropped

Contesting Imperialism(s) - Central and East European ISA conference in Sarajevo, BiH, June 17-19, 2026. Deadline for proposals - April 10, 2026. There will be a pre-conference workshop for young scholars. For info, please visit: ceeisa2026.com

This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.

Title page of the German liberal weekly Die Zeit: is Trump doing the right thing this time?

Its worth reading the whole piece if you read German. The pseudo naivety and desire of intellectual elites to rub shoulders with with the far right and the powerful just boggles the mind

Great paper by the wonderul @palmapolyak.bsky.social

🚨 A reminder! 🚨 The call for our Spring/Summer 2026 series is due THIS Friday, March 6 @ 11:59PST. Presenters only need an abstract to submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

tl;dr: Put your money where your democracy is www.socialeurope.eu/right-wing-t...

Pleased to announce publication of the fifth edition of states versus markets www.bloomsbury.com/us/states-ve... The book is now old enough to drink in the USA but of course I have significantly updated it with each new edition. Buy a copy for Mother's Day or the holiday of your choice!

We are looking for a postdoc!

Another gem by @cornelban.bsky.social on our troubling times

Really? That's the EU's position?

This is no 2. Does not make her reaction any better.