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⏳Beyond thrilled to co-launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy next week — with this *incredible* lineup of female talent 🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social

We are delighted to welcome at @connect-unibo.bsky.social with the lecture: DOGE-ing USAID: why and what next for humanitarianism and global development Emma Mawdsley University of Cambridge 📅 Friday, 19 September 3–4:30 pm 📍 Aula Poeti, Palazzo Hercolani – University of Bologna See you there!

Some of the very best and most internationally renowned political scientists in Germany are at Cologne. This is a very real threat to a globally strong group.

Happy to be in a wonderful city for one of my fav conferences ☺️ if you’re around, make sure not to miss @himself.bsky.social keynote lecture tonight

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Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

If you are attending #EISAPEC2025 and are interested in publishing in @ripejournal.bsky.social please join the "Meet the Editors II" panel this afternoon (Thursday, Aug 28) at 17:30 (Sala Poeti, Palazzo Hercolani) to hear RIPE Editor @manuelamoschella.bsky.social speak about the journal.

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 👇 🧵

🧵 Draghi, far more eloquently (& in Italian) & with far greater authority touching on several of the themes I discussed in my @jcms-eu.bsky.social Annual Lecture @ces-europe.bsky.social:

Very happy to have contributed to this fantastic Handbook of Comparative Political Economy with a chapter on central banks as a key linchpin of capitalist systems. Many thanks to Marino Regini for bringing together such an outstanding set of contributions 👉 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Textbook authoritarianism

With summer in full swing, we have launched our July issue today!☀️ 🌏 Special section on Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific 🔖 Articles on climate politics, EU-UK relations and more 💻 Policy papers on US foreign policy & AI governance 📚 24 book reviews Read NOW: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/4

So proud to be on the editorial board of a journal that keeps pushing the boundaries of political economy! 💥 Massive thanks to all our authors, reviewers, and readers who make this community thrive!

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

So much for European soft and hard power as well as European strategic autonomy. If this is what the EU can achieve in ***trade*** of all the things, things look dire.

We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4). 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

Sharp synthesis of the 2024 landmark reports by Letta and Draghi and their implications for the EU's economic agenda. Now, the 2028-34 MFF negotiations will test whether the EU truly backs its new competitiveness agenda - with sufficient financial commitment and, crucially, political legitimacy.

From the world reserve currency country…

We are looking for a lecturer in Comparative European Politics at Oxford. Join an incredibly stimulating intellectual environment. It is a 5-year position that should be great for early career researchers. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

This is such an important contribution to our thinking about the EU’s future. I highly recommend it. Congrats @manuelamoschella.bsky.social & Luca Quaglia!

Great piece arguing that the changes proposed by the twin Letta/Draghi reports go much further than technocratic adaptiations - demanding a switch from fostering internal competitiveness to facing external competitiveness, which also requires different political legitimacy.

📘🇪🇺 Much more than a report In our new @jcms-eu.bsky.social piece, Lucia Quaglia and I argue that the Draghi and Letta reports go beyond competitiveness - they mark a shift in the EU’s political identity. But this entails huge challenges! Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I wonder if Bobby Knight did anything else of note? Congrats again to the elite Democratic economists who told us this man was a credible Treasury Secretary because he went to the right schools & the right elite East Coast cocktail parties

What a lovely surprise to browse the latest issue of #InternationalAffairs and stumble upon a thoughtful review of my Unexpected Revolutionaries! Huge thanks to @carogarriga.bsky.social for engaging so carefully with the book 📖 Here’s the review: academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...

You live in a country that is establishing concentration camps & soon will be stripping citizens of their papers.

Your lucky day! 🎧 The audiobook of #UnexpectedRevolutionaries is out and I’ve got 9 free codes to share! Grab yours and let me know what you think! 🎁 Reddem here: www.audible.com/acx-promo (US/UK only) Codes: 3CBPUR338MPFA 455A7UQ5TKLRG 4CSW3Y3475WE7 66ULH9WT8LRZ9

Don’t miss this insightful article just published by @benbraun.bsky.social 👇

🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate. Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics. We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Just had my weirdest night stroll ever in Budapest—chatting about whether tomorrow’s 🏳️‍🌈 Pride march will or won’t get violent We all hope the march will be huge, it will go ahead in peace, and Orbán will have his ass handed to him. He won’t ban Pride our city But there are sinister forces at play 🧵

Happy to share my new article in Stato e Mercato! 
I trace the evolution of ideational scholarship in European Political Economy and revisit the politics of ideational change.
Part of a symposium with #DanielBéland & #MartinCarstensen 🔗 www.rivisteweb.it/issn/0392-97...

Are you an Early Career Researcher in #IPE and would like to get feedback on a draft, a book proposal or on how the publishing process works? Then consider applying👇 w/ @johannespetry.bsky.social @silviaweko.bsky.social @florencedafe.bsky.social

Just to add to the vibes today, the "shadow chair" chat is back after WSJ story, weighing on the $ www.ft.com/content/b626...

Just bumped into this gem from Joan Robinson and had to share: “The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.” Iconic

Alison Johnston and I have a new open access article out arguing that pressure from domestic rather than foreign bondholders is most effective in forcing populist governments to rein in their economic policies. Our case studies are Italy and Hungary, but there are clear lessons for the USA.

Tune in for another interesting episode of our podcast @connect-unibo.bsky.social 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Felice di segnalare il nuovo episodio del podcast @connect-unibo.bsky.social con @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social e Federico Ruozzi Un dialogo ricco e attualissimo sull’eredità di Papa Francesco, la comunicazione pubblica della Chiesa, e le sfide globali del nuovo pontificato. #stayconnected 😀

Couldn’t agree more here: even the most powerful economic institutions like central banks operate in deeply political environments. Institutions work when they are backed by political consensus - as I explore in Unexpected Revolutionaries @cornellupress.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6ed3...

What a great opportunity, post-doc @hertieschool.bsky.social on #climatepolitics! @diarmuidtorney.bsky.social @manuelamoschella.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social @fgenovese.bsky.social @stephofmann.bsky.social Spread the word!

What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors? I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓 Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New (open access!) paper out now with Eric Helleiner and Hongying Wang in New Political Economy: "A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift" 1/ A brief thread 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Thank for the generous shout out! And honored to have my book next to Eric's one ☺️

A book review of @manuelamoschella.bsky.social and Monnet's 2024 books on central banks: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Leggo con interesse il Presidente delle Univ telematiche @mm-corriere-bot.bsky.social e condivido l’incipit: “In una società aperta è bene che vi siano atenei molto diversi.” www.corriere.it/opinioni/25_...

Can’t wait to listen to @himself.bsky.social It will surely be the highlight of the IT polisci conference! Such a great choice!

Today is Europe Day! A moment to reflect on the achievements, challenges, and promises of the European project. And a timely reminder that Europe is - and has always been- a political project in the making europe-day.europa.eu/index_en

🇪🇺 75 Years of the Schuman Declaration 🇪🇺 On 9 May 1950, Robert Schuman put forward a bold idea: unite Europe by pooling coal and steel production to make war ‘not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible.’

🌍Difesa europea e riarmo: quali prospettive? @manuelamoschella.bsky.social ne parla con Filippo Andreatta (Unibo) e @andrearuggeri.bsky.social (UniMi) nell’ultimo episodio del nostro podcast Connecting the Nodes! 🎧Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6OZm... ▶️Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkrQ...

🇪🇺 L’Europa si sta riarmando. Ma è davvero pronta? 🎧 Ne parliamo nel nuovo episodio di Connecting the Nodes @connect-unibo.bsky.social #University of Bologna con @andrearuggeri.bsky.social e Filippo Andreatta. ▶️ Guarda suYouTube: youtu.be/rkrQjB3JtuY 📣 Ascolta qui podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/c...