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.

Faber: "Ik was beleid" 😀

Very pleased that @cspjournal.bsky.social under the editorship of @myducave.bsky.social @nicjenne.bsky.social and @yfreykers.bsky.social continues to do great 👏 17/738 of Politics and IR journals in latest Scopus ranking ▶️ www.scopus.com/sourceid/560...

Just happened. Wilders pulled the plug on Dutch govt Elections very likely (though probably not until November; care-taker govt until then)

Geert Wilders may pull the plug out of Dutch coalition government today (over asylum) Massive gamble. He created this government and his own minister for asylum has spectacularly failed to do anything in the last 12 months In case of elections, everyone will come after him for failing to deliver

💻 How to regulate cyberspace in a fragmented digital world? In a new ENSURED report, Federica Marconi & Ettore Greco (IAI) dive into UN cyberspace governance. Their findings: Key UN initiatives have produced mixed results and are often undermined by competing visions & geopolitical frictions. 👇

🌐 As the #WHA78 opens today, a new ENSURED report asks: How does the IP–public health regime impact vaccine access? Read how WTO, WHO & WIPO dynamics shape policy – and what it means going forward. 📝 By @ofernandezfdez.bsky.social & @mirkoheinzel.bsky.social 🔗 www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications...

What makes our researchers tick? 🕰️📖 For @mirkoheinzel.bsky.social (@Maastricht University), studying multilateralism is about so much more than just making global governance more effective…🚨 Find his recent report (with @ofernandezfdez.bsky.social) here: www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications...