🚨🗣️ ENSURED Expert Survey New research by Soetkin Verhaegen, @hdijkstra.bsky.social & @tsommerer.bsky.social offers a global assessment (based on a survey of 763 experts) of how 110 international organisations are coping in today’s turbulent world. @maastrichtu.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social 👇

NEW PUBLICATION: In August-September 2025 we surveyed 763 experts in 48 countries on the challenges for Global Governance. This @ensured.bsky.social report has the results 🌐 1️⃣ Expert scores on 110 IOs 2️⃣ Forecasting of challenges 3️⃣ Conjoint on IO survival www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications...

🚨 Vacancies at Maastricht in research programme "Europe: Society, Politics and Global Order" (do share!) - Assistant Prof Political Philosophy in Euro Democracy - Assistant Prof Euro Political History - PostDoc Disinformation and Euro Democracy vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/search/?crea...

🚨 Vacancies at Maastricht in research programme "Europe: Society, Politics and Global Order" (do share!) - Assistant Prof Political Philosophy in Euro Democracy - Assistant Prof Euro Political History - PostDoc Disinformation and Euro Democracy vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/search/?crea...

I am very pleased to share I will be returning to Maastricht University, my alma mater, to give a public talk on my book 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 (Hurst/Oxford). When: Monday 19 January, 20:00 Where: Auditorium, Minderbroedersberg 4-6 www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/events/pr...

🚨🚨 We're #hiring! 🚨🚨 Assistant Professor of Political and Social Philosophy @maastrichtu.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social @hdijkstra.bsky.social @ccmmody.bsky.social @masssimons.bsky.social www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566...

📣 Publication day: The 4th edition of "International Organization" (Bloomsbury) is now available in your favourite bookshop 📚 Details: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/internati...

New article: "Second Attempt at America First: Donald Trump and the Survival of International Organizations" published in Global Policy 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New article: "Second Attempt at America First: Donald Trump and the Survival of International Organizations" published in Global Policy 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Number of European students travelling to the USA for a university degree remains... steady (number of Indian nationals is down) Perhaps it will decline in the future, but worth to be a bit more critical about all the anecdotal exodus stories

I can totally see the Nobel go to the International Criminal Court

📝 New article "Second Attempt at America First: Donald Trump and the Survival of International Organizations" in production with Global Policy 🌐 Accepted version already here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Someone could have told Macron that there's no French embassy in NYC. Just saying

Can international organisations be both effective and robust — or must one always come at the expense of the other? Read about the trade-offs IOs must navigate to deliver results while remaining resilient to existential challenges: www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications

If you don't pay your bills, you don't get to use the escalator

Worrying news from the Flemish government which cancels its annual funding for the Institute for European Studies (VUB Brussels) and the Institute of Development Policy (Antwerp), putting the future of both excellent research centres at serious risk www.standaard.be/binnenland/v...

Today is not a great day for multilateralism, and I fear it will get worse in the next few hours www.reuters.com/world/africa...

📝 REPORT: Pandemic Agreement COVID-19 exposed cracks in the global health system. Enter: The 2025 Pandemic Agreement. A new ENSURED report by @ofernandezfdez.bsky.social & @mirkoheinzel.bsky.social finds the agreement to be a meaningful, if partial, landmark for future pandemics. 👇

How do international organizations change as the consequence of autocratization? A new article in @coco-journal.bsky.social with @debremaria.bsky.social explores how regime transformations affect IO membership composition. Are non-democracies taking over? ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 Excited to share the publication of our @ensured.bsky.social report ✍️ In the report @liliantsourdi.bsky.social, @gettingthekenksout.bsky.social, and I analyse the effectiveness, robustness, and democratic credentials of the UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees For those interested, see:

The WTO is under pressure to address trade-related agendas on development, the environment & inclusiveness. But with members divided, what's the best way forward? In a new ENSURED report, @claraweinhardt.bsky.social, Michal Parizek & Jayati Srivastava explore these agendas. Full report 👇 (🧵)

📢 Out now: 5 new ENSURED reports on the state of multilateralism! Topics include: 💼 Trade-related agendas & the WTO: 🌱 The Paris Agreement at 10: 🌐 The WTO Pandemic Agreement: 🧳 UN Compacts on Migration & Refugees: 🪙 Regulating Digital Currencies: 🔗: www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications

📸 Today at the #ecprgc25: ENSURED & sister project NAVIGATOR on the panel “EU Support for Global Governance in a Contested World,” chaired by @hdijkstra.bsky.social (@fasosmaastricht.bsky.social). Ft.: ENSURED's @ofernandezfdez.bsky.social, Jan Karlas & more! 🔗 www.ensuredeurope.eu/news-events/...

📣 We are hiring! 👇 This PhD position is part of a research project that examines how growing income inequality can reshape the way democracy functions by influencing both political discourse and public opinion. More info here: www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3542...

Reminder that the Executive Order mandated 180-day review of all international organizations, conventions and treaties (with a view of withdrawing from them) is *Sunday 3 August* www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

More than 20% of EU exports to the US in 2024 concerned medicinal and pharmaceutical products and medicaments 👇 If those are subject to tariffs (Trump said "no", VDL said "yes"), the American healthcare system will be paying the bill

🔔⭐ Our research programme Politics and #Culture in #Europe (PCE) has a new name: Europe: #Society, #Politics and Global Order (ESPO). The name reflects our broader focus on Europe’s global role and societal impact.

I value pluralism in IR scholarship, but we can certainly do with a few less "turns"

Proofs for "International Organization" (4th ed.) fully approved now. Book off to the printer If you are considering using this book for your courses (in Spring 2026), do get in touch! Pre-order available in Bloomsbury catalogue: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/internati...

👏 Congrats to Anna Herranz-Surrallés, @johanadriaensen.bsky.social & Odile Felkamp on their NWO M grant for the project “Towards EU economic statecraft?". Exploring how geoeconomic tools reshape party-political dynamics in the #EU

Wrote a brief paper "Second Attempt at America First: Donald Trump and the Survival of International Organizations" Some reflections on the first six months and what we generally know from the academic literature on the crisis of multilateralism www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Commission proposed MFF budget looks reasonable at first glance More evolution than revolution with competitiveness and defence receiving (rightly) substantially more money Devil is in the detail and MS won't be happy with increase to 1.26% GNI (despite many new challenges) and new own resources

Today we present the EU budget for 2028-2034. It's a budget for a new era, that matches Europe’s ambition. That addresses Europe’s challenges. That strengthens our independence.⁩

How to align EU strategies with the realities of candidate countries? ENSURED's @hdijkstra.bsky.social calls for creative solutions to strengthening ties with countries in its Eastern neighborhood & the Western Balkans. 🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0_2... For @reunir.bsky.social

🎓🌍 It's the last day of the ENSURED Summer School! Over the last week, students & researchers have grappled with the challenges and future of effective, robust & democratic global governance. A huge 🙏 to the participants for their ideas! 📝 Read the summary: www.ensuredeurope.eu/news-events/...

ECPR apparently forgot that they have to pay VAT for their conference taking place in Thessaloniki.... next month Unpopular opinion, but perhaps we should welcome more economists in our discipline 💶

Early View Article International Bureaucracies as Constrained Entrepreneurs: The Budget Crisis of the OSCE www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/glo...

Back from 2 days NATO summit and 2 days Tbilisi Reagan said it well: "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction"

Full day at NATO Public Forum in The Hague. SecGen Rutte was in a joyful mood at the kick-off

Off to the NATO Public Forum in The Hague 🇪🇺 🇺🇲 Early rise but they've put together a very nice programme (all events will also be streamed online): www.natopublicforum.org

Impressive line-up for the NATO Public Forum. Looking forward to two days in The Hague www.natopublicforum.org/speakersnl/

Onze Maastrichtse opinie @standaard.be over de NAVO-top en de fixatie op de 5% norm. Media en politiek dreigen de kern van de zaak te vergeten: “de Amerikaanse veiligheidsparaplu is voltooid verleden tijd.” - met @hdijkstra.bsky.social & Sophie Vanhoonacker www.standaard.be/opinies/in-d...

Haha. Brussels politicians fail to form a government more than 12 months after the local elections (nevermind that BXL is a medium-sized city and not a country) Ran out of money and now blackmailing Ursula von der Leyen to pay for the Schuman Roundabout renovations www.bruzz.be/actua/steden...

Met @studioeuropa.bsky.social organiseerde Clingendael een expertgesprek over de NAVO, defensieuitgaven en de complexe Trans-Atlantische relatie. Met o.a. @remkorteweg.bsky.social, @dcvw.bsky.social, @hdijkstra.bsky.social en Permanent Vertegenwoordiger van Nederland bij de NAVO, Thijs van der Plas.

On my desk and soon(ish) in your bookshop Proofs of the 4th edition of our textbook "International Organization" with Bloomsbury 👇

Let's hope that NATO leaders will agree to 3.5% defence spending in The Hague... because I have just added a sentence about this new target in the NATO chapter while correcting the proofs

On my desk and soon(ish) in your bookshop Proofs of the 4th edition of our textbook "International Organization" with Bloomsbury 👇

Proofs with author query: "Westphalia (1648) does not appear in the reference list. Please provide a citation" 😀

The @ec.europa.eu fully supports the ICC and its officials. The ICC holds perpetrators of the world’s gravest crimes to account and gives victims a voice. It must be free to act without pressure. We will always stand for global justice and the respect of international law.

📈 Ranked 17 / 738 of Politics and IR journals in the latest Scopus ranking. A big thank you to all authors, reviewers and editorial board members for making this possible. 👏 Onwards and upwards.