⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 big congratulations Dr. Lepeu 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾

My Substack on writing, Respect the Marble is back! 🎉 I’ll be launching several new things this autumn, outlined here: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/a-new-seas... A quick preview 👇 🧵

The roundtable contributions catalyze this research agenda: @yoramhaftel.bsky.social & @stephofmann.bsky.social claim that the decline thesis underestimates the durability of FIGOs and that institutional density enables states to substitute one FIGO for another. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#OpenAccess from Ethics & International Affairs - Under Cover: Substituting Formal IOs during Hard Times - https://cup.org/4oSMcHi - @yoramhaftel.bsky.social & @stephofmann.bsky.social‬ #FirstView

🚨 Very excited to share that the call for papers for the EPSS annual conference in Belfast 2026 is live. 🔝 Lots of innovation to enrich the way we exchange ideas in political science in Europe. 🙏🏼 Sharing is caring!

My article on the stakes around mis/disinformation controversies is finally out at @poppublicsphere.bsky.social. It is the product of my work at @eui-schuman.bsky.social with support from @stephofmann.bsky.social and inspiration from @cip.uw.edu.

⭐NEWLY published: "Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy" in ISR #openaccess Fantastic collaboration w/ @ninareiners.bsky.social @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social @andreavilan.bsky.social @lisasundstrom.bsky.social @peacemedie.bsky.social @sch-ir.bsky.social Laura Henry & Soumita Basu 🙏

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚? 🎥 Watch co-directors of the #GIFI project Patryk Pawlak & @stephofmann.bsky.social reflect on the key takeaways from the most recent conference hosted at @eui-eu.bsky.social🔗 loom.ly/2Hu4q5A

ECPR SGIR did it again. Super exciting summer school ecpr.eu/Events/334 in September with speakers such as Jan-Aart Scholte, Sarah Bermeo, Carla Costa, and @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social. Highly recommend.

What does digital authoritarianism look like in one of the world’s most connected regions? In conversation with @stephofmann.bsky.social, co-Director for the #GIFI project, Associate Professor @marcowenjones.bsky.social explores the digital ecosystem in the Gulf states. 🎥👉 buff.ly/5CbiQqW

Grateful for the opportunity to present our draft w. @stephofmann.bsky.social & @raffaelemstr.bsky.social on ad hoc coalitions #AHCs in and across time. More food for thought on the politics of ADHOCISM and other alternative forms of global governance 💭

NATO’s Internship Programme is open for applications. Apply now for 6-month PAID internships at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, starting in March or September 2026.   Please spread the word! Apply by 22 June: bit.ly/4kgHlMW

With 🇷🇺’s invasion of 🇺🇦, and in light of US administrations looking eastward and/or inward rather than westward, the questions of 𝙝𝙤𝙬, 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, and 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙢 to organise European security and defence have reappeared on the agenda. Read @stephofmann.bsky.social 's publication here 🔗 buff.ly/00QNwvl

JCMS is pleased to announce that from 2027, there will be two special issues published per year. 📚 We’re currently inviting proposals for the Spring and Autumn 2027 Special Issues. For more details, see the full call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Transatlantic relations in the making - in certain and uncertain times. Thank you @mcopelov.bsky.social for helping to organize us :)

In this interview with @stephofmann.bsky.social, Co-director for the #GIFI project, Prof Milton Mueller (Internet Governance Project at Georgia Tech) reflects on the shift from domain name debates to broader digital governance challenges. 🎥 buff.ly/vCZhwZP

Just published in @cspjournal.bsky.social 💡💻⚖️ My article looks at how legal, technical, and military expertise condition the debate over defining and regulating lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS)—and how such “epistemic struggles" can produce political effects in global governance.

Join us on May 1 @uwmadison.bsky.social for our 2025 Jean Monnet 🇪🇺 Center Symposium, "Europe Amidst Uncertainty." We have <a lot> to discuss & a 💯 lineup of local scholars & Europe-based experts to discuss democracy, geopolitics, & the global economy. Program/info: europe.wisc.edu/event/keynot...

How to organize European security? In this International Politics forum, we discuss European actors' choices between orchestrating existing and new institutional layers (compartmentalized multilateralism) or escaping consensus-making with new&old layers @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social

"security and defence is top priority for Europe, and rightly so. But as Europe rearms, it is also reasserting a new wartime geopolitical identity. In this context, policy decisions regarding humanitarian disarmament treaties acquire a broader dimension." ecfr-eu.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/ecfr.eu/...

If you are interested in how the research programs on power transition, regime complexity & international order can speak to one another, then this forum could be of interest to you. Great contributions from Laura Gómez-Mera, @tgutner.bsky.social, Matias Margulis .. academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

"One of my goals is to contribute to portraying #migration in a positive way." In this episode of the #MyEUIResearch video series, @juliettes.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social investigates how ideas and political behaviours can spread from migrants to host societies. 🌎 📹 buff.ly/ji4G65s

🎓 Applications are open for the SPS Summer Academy 2025 at @eui-eu.bsky.social 📍 Florence | 🗓️ 1–5 Sept 📝 Apply by 15 May – limited spots! 💡 Explore Democracy, Society & Foreign Affairs 💶 Free to attend + support for eligible participants 🔗 Application: www.eui.eu/apply?id=the... #SummerSchool

🔎 How have women shaped the history of #globalisation? In this #EUIResearch episode, Prof. Glenda Sluga @eui-history.bsky.social explores the crucial role of women in international economic thought, discussing their pivotal role in shaping the modern world. 🌏 📺 Watch the interview: buff.ly/K2KPpTw

Coalitions of the willing are back in vogue, with Macron hosting another summit tomorrow in Paris. Here’s a chart I made on forms of differentiated integration and political cooperation in Europe:

AND we in Europe/outside the US need more conversations of what we can do to defend academic freedom. @stephofmann.bsky.social NOT convinced that US universities can simply set-up 2nd campuses in Europe (see Guardian) as US rules/cuts can still impact them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is not much difference across the country on the communal level

2 AP positions at Leiden: peace studies / IR and security & rule of law: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies... www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Still cannot believe it: the United Nations Security Council Resolution Authors (UNSCRA) dataset is out in the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social 🥳

 Read here why the data is important and use it widely for your research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@michaelwilliams.bsky.social and I started writing the chapter on domestic politics in late 2020. Much has changed since then. Whatever is currently happening to NATO, domestic politics seems to matter a great deal. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Please read and act accordingly! 👇

This semester’s five Europe in the world research seminars @eui-ggp.bsky.social could have been not more wonderful and timely. We started off with @stefwalter.bsky.social talk on responding to noncooperative behavior, say for example by the US, and how to respond to it

Coming to Bologna for EISA? Let me know! DM if you're interested in being on a panel on far-right and Global Environmental Politics/IOs I'm looking for other papers! @ninareiners.bsky.social @stephofmann.bsky.social @raffaelemstr.bsky.social Pls spread the word! eisa-net.org/pec-2025/

Wondering about the shift in global governance we are witnessing these days? We interviewed Prof. @stephofmann.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social on the challenges multilateralism faces, transatlantic security & digital policy. 📌 Read the full interview here: buff.ly/4dYJI7l

Unity? "AfD co-leader Alice Weidel has said that 'Trump is implementing the policies that the AfD has been demanding for years'... rightist politicians seem willing to risk Europe’s security and prosperity for political gain." @catherinedevries.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Switzerland should examine "possibilities for security policy cooperation with the EU" and "strenghten Switzerland's role in the European security architecture", demands the Swiss National Coucil (parliament).

All welcome to our Connect seminars! 😊 @connect-unibo.bsky.social -

Incredibly moved that @anaprokhorov.bsky.social and @raffaelemstr.bsky.social secretly orchestrated my nomination for ISA’s J. Ann Tickner award. Warm thanks to all of you who supported the nomination. I still can’t believe it. @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social

I think what makes this moment feel so big and groundbreaking is that even those among us who have been talking about the need/danger of a Europe without the US for a long time, were usually in the mindset of a US disinterested in Europe. But not a US actively hostile to Europe& European interests.

Umberto Eco once wrote that Europeans are vaccinated by centuries of conflict on their continent. One of the most important things in today’s Europe is to call out those who doubt the efficacy of this vaccine. We have anti-democratic forces in our midst, now is the time to stand up against them.

#Germany's federal criminal police office, not exactly known for over-counting such things, reports that at least 41,000 crimes with a right-wing extremist motive were committed in 2024, a 1/3 increase compared to 2023. 2023, with a 23% increase on 2022, had already marked an all-time high #farright

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

📢 This Thursday 27/2, join @giofabman.bsky.social from @cambridgeup.bsky.social as he examines the only successful UN Security Council reform in 1963—expanding non-permanent membership from 6 to 10 states—and compares it with later failed reforms. Register now 🔗 buff.ly/4icMyEt

In @eui-eu.bsky.social this week presenting a new paper draft. Join if you can! I’d love your feedback.Working on this project has provided solace amidst global chaos. Thanks to the Stephanie Hofmann 🙏🏻 for the invite. @campolis.bsky.social @christscollegecam.bsky.social www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Und so beschreibts der Perlentaucher von heute: Wir alle wissen, wie der Krieg angefangen hat, so der italienische Karikaturist Andrea Bozzo: Unschuldige russische Raketen wurden von ukrainischen Häusern beschossen

Kackeistamdampfen www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

Access to universities comes with certain responsibilities. Otherwise inequalities keep on getting bigger. www.spiegel.de/start/bundes...

Book Launch! Join us for the discussion with @stephofmann.bsky.social, @ninahall.bsky.social, @akentikelenis.bsky.social and @ckreudersonnen.bsky.social online or in Florence on the 21 February for the launch of my book "Global Governance on the Ground". Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Aside from the obvious awfulness of breaching the Brandmauer, the idea that what 🇩🇪 needs right now is <less immigration> is, while predictable, staggeringly myopic: