Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

To remind everyone of Zbigniew Brzezinski phrase, if you are not the (negotiating) table, you are on the menu. Just devastated about today’s developments

Yale Law School is rising up to the occasion by organizing a discussion on the legal implications of executive overreach

Please note (and download - it's free!) this extraordinary volume. Invisible University for Ukraine is an outstanding initiative and a model of how one can really do something for (and with) students and scholars in countries at war or under autocracy, beyond providing exit options or paternalism.

A big round of applause to @isabelamares.bsky.social and Alexander Trubowitz for their paper “Electoral Rules, Programmatic Competition, and Redistribution: Evidence from Interwar France”, which won the CQ Press Award this year from the Legislative Studies Section of APSA! 👏👏👏👏👏 Polisky

Many many thanks to Daniel Hellmann for the fantastic review of my book! .). @pw-portal.bsky.social

This Friday and Sat (2nd and 3rd) I will be at the conference on "Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies" at Oxford. This is the final conference of a project organised by @gcapoccia.bsky.social & @isabelamares.bsky.social. I've learned so much from it. If you are around, consider joining!

Participants and papers: @gcapoccia.bsky.social (Oxford) -- "Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Actors, Strategies, Temporalities" @isabelamares.bsky.social (Yale) -- "Defending parliament: Responses of mainstream parties to parliamentary erosion"

This coming Friday and Saturday (3-4 November) I will be hosting a conference on "Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies", which I have co-organised with Isabela Mares (@isabelamares.bsky.social), and which will take place at the Department of Politics in Oxford. Info below.