Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/

Forschungsförderung ist toll, oder? Nicht unbedingt. Es kann passieren, dass Forschungsförderung der Wissenschaft mehr Geld entzieht als bringt. Es ist ein wachsendes Problem, das wir endlich anpacken müssen. (Thread) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation.

Irène Herrmann's new book is finally out link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Beobachtung von Karl Schlögel: "Und ich bin überhaupt der Auffassung, dass die Erfahrung des Scheiternkönnens und des Verstumenmüssenkönnens eine zentrale und wesentliche Erfahrung aller Arbeit von Historikern ist.“

Utku Can Akın ile Petar Zoranić-World Harmony kazasına dair makalemiz YILLIK’ın yeni sayısında. Bizim için disaster studies’den yıkıntı estetiğine kadar uzanan uzun bir yolculuktu. Makaleye buradan ulaşabilirsiniz: dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/yilli...

Nach zwei Jahrzehnten geht meine Zeit als ORF-Korrespondent nächsten Sommer vorbei. Ich habe dabei immer versucht, die Machtlosen nicht zu verletzen und mich nicht vor den Mächtigen zu verbiegen. Ich habe die arabische Welt widergespiegelt, wie sie ist, nicht wie man meint, dass sie zu sein hat 👇🏼

„Der empathische Erklärer des arabischen Nahen Ostens“ - so nennt @tessaszy.bsky.social den @gawhary.bsky.social und das trifft es sehr gut. www.falter.at/maily/202512...

My new book — Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction — is now available as an e-book (paperback in March 2026)! The book offers a concise history of humanitarianism in an international perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

"Nearly one in ten Austrian consuls served in the United States during long 19th century, and expansion of the consular service and their activities in the U.S. accompanied the emergence of American midwestern metropoles..." Call for papers, Deadline 16 January. botstiberbiaas.org/call-for-pap...

@unescoibe.bsky.social has launched a new podcast, #OneHundred, on the occasion of its centenary - and I really enjoyed contributing to the first two episodes on intellectual aid during the Second World War. Listen here: Ep. 1 open.spotify.com/episode/1hRq... Ep. 2 open.spotify.com/episode/7vKw...

@unescoibe.bsky.social has launched a new podcast, #OneHundred, on the occasion of its centenary - and I really enjoyed contributing to the first two episodes on intellectual aid during the Second World War. Listen here: Ep. 1 open.spotify.com/episode/1hRq... Ep. 2 open.spotify.com/episode/7vKw...

Colonial tug-of-war: Shifting narratives and desirability of Indian minorities in Burma and Indochina doi.org/10.1080/0308... Paper in @jich.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student Marly Tiburcio-Carneiro

My forthcoming book - The Technocratic International - appears in the catalogue now, so I guess it's happening! Out with OUP @academic.oup.com some time spring/early summer next year! More info 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Job: Full Professor "International History and Politics" (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-159326 Geneva, , The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland, Bewerbungsschluss: …

Job: 2 years Post-Doc Fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, on the history and sociology of USAID

🚀 Launching today: a new project in partnership with the University of Cologne will explore the impact of the 1990s on global governance.

Great to be a part of this:

US government adopted the far-right Great Replacement myth and is now demanding NATO countries to dismantle the EU and the European project. They themselves frame it as a binary choice. Essentially the end of NATO as we know it.

I am very pleased to announce the publication of a book that I had the privilege of editing with Daniel Laqua on the history of intellectual cooperation at the League of Nations! 🖥️ More about the book: www.martingrandjean.ch/intellectual... 📙 Read online: doi.org/10.18356/978...

Job – Tenure Track – Environmental History – BOKU University - Vienna Apply by January 6th. niche-canada.org/2025/12/02/j... #envhist

Kiran Klaus Patel - A Concise History of the European Union À paraître en juin aux Cambridge UP

Matthew Hilton - Charity After Empire British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development À paraître en février aux Cambridge UP

Our volume is finally out! Open access to boot! Personal thanks to Michal Frankl for his patience and trust ...and, of course, to our authors for powering through the long production process. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526189929/

"La recherche n’a pas vocation à plaire ni à se conformer à un « équilibre politique » dicté par le pouvoir. Elle repose sur la méthode, la critique, le débat argumenté, des principes aujourd’hui mis en péril." www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Great to see that my article Lifesaving, Sovereignty, & the Place of the Late Ottoman Empire in the European International Order is now officially out in excellent company in the latest issue of the Journal of World History: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55899. OA through zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1753...

Check out Gemma Sou's "How to Translate Research into a Comic: Examples from Disaster Scholarship" in the Journal of #Disaster Studies at muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/...

„Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen“ Das Open-Access-Lexikon erklärt Schlüsselbegriffe der deutschen Geschichte und Gegenwart – von Demokratie über Alltag bis Globalisierung. Unser Tipp: ÖKOLOGIE von Florian Sprenger und Christina Wessely 👉 Open Access: doi.org/10.31267/Gru...

Ein Anlass, sich die ausgezeichnete und bedrückende Trilogie „Wohin und Zurück“/„Welcome in Vienna“ wieder einmal anzusehen, die teilweise auf den Erlebnissen Trollers beruht (und bezeichnender Weise in Österreich recht unbekannt geblieben ist)

How do we make sense of the fact that a humanitarian organization - the German Sea Rescue Society - thrived under the Nazi regime? In a new article in HSSH, as part of my wider research interest into the historical connections between voluntary sea rescue societies & the state, I argue that... (1/4)

How do we make sense of the fact that a humanitarian organization - the German Sea Rescue Society - thrived under the Nazi regime? In a new article in HSSH, as part of my wider research interest into the historical connections between voluntary sea rescue societies & the state, I argue that... (1/4)

I have a new article out. TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee. academic.oup.com/past/advance...

New job: Professor of History The Vienna School of International Studies (Diplomatische Akademie Wien) jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69197

Gino Severini, Red Cross Train Passing a Village, 1915 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137947

Over the 1990s, Washington transformed Guantánamo Bay into a theater of extraterritorial mass incarceration to hold tens of thousands of Haitian and Cuban asylum-seekers fleeing political violence and economic collapse. Miriam Pensack reports on this little-known history.

I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Rising Nato military spending to cause huge spike in emissions, report warns

📢 Call for applications: @chlcologne.bsky.social is offering 2 positions in a research project exploring how the 1990s reshaped global governance & human security.  👉 PhD Position: bit.ly/46vKCnp 👉 Postdoc Research Position: bit.ly/46ufZ1D Apply now!

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The Cologne Center for Advanced Studies in International History and Law (CHL) is hiring for two positions with the Synergy Research Project: Rethinking Global Governance and Human Security in the 1990s. Info on the PhD position: tinyurl.com/4azzjuxu Info on the Postdoc: tinyurl.com/5n73343s

📘From our latest Special Issue Sarah Knoll (@sarahmknoll.bsky.social) (@uni-graz.at) on 'Hungarian Refugees in the United States between Cold War Politics, Economic Growth, and Labour Demands, 1956–1958' #ColdWar #Emigration #Religion 20thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#Neuerscheinung Elisabeth Röhrlich und ich haben sich in einem neuen Band zur österr. Neutralität mit dem neutralen Österreich als Sitz internationaler Organisationen auseinandersetzen - Open Access! @transcript-verlag.bsky.social @fopolab.bsky.social www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

📣 what a great way to start the new term! This paper has been long in the making, and combines years of research from the two of us, but we couldn’t have done it without the support of our research Group, @sechistnetwork.bsky.social 📣

Gut gemacht.

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ich bin ja nicht immer einer Meinung mit #IchBinHanna , aber "verpflichtende Titellehre" musste ich erst mal nachschlagen. So etwas Groteskes kann wirklich nur ein feudales System wie der deutsche akademische Betrieb hervorbringen.

Where are our university presidents? They are totally silent, completely absent from the public square as this existential crisis is about to break the entire business model of American higher education & scientific research 🤷‍♂️ bsky.app/profile/mcop...