It was great to be back at @eui-schuman.bsky.social for a workshop on "The EU between differentiation, disintegration, and enlargement". Find most papers on @wepsocial.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/bdz7arw7) and @jeppjournal.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/4htxs4hk). Thanks to all organisers and participants!

78,9% of the electorate voted in the Norwegian parliamentary elections – highest turnout in my lifetime! Beautiful!

Ireland is a fascinating country, especially for those of us interested in the politicisation of migration and European integration. This article, where I look into linkages of the two issues across four Irish treaty referendums, is now out in CEP! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

How do challenger parties—those without prior governing experience—gain access to executive power? In our paper out now in @thejop.bsky.social, @mvinaes.bsky.social, @jacobnyrup.bsky.social, and I explore whether simply holding legislative office helps them join government. Brief 🧵👇 1/10

📣New publication! Happy to announce a special issue of West European Politics (@wepsocial.bsky.social) on "External differentiation: a new trajectory after Brexit and Ukraine?". www.tandfonline.com/toc/fwep20/4... A thread.

Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters - my latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...

As Lise Rye and I show in this paper, debates about "where to wriggle" have been ongoing in Norway since the beginning of the association to the EU internal market and, as recent developments make clear, are not likely to go off the agenda anytime soon – happy to see this paper out!

New publication in European Union Politics! Sina Özdemir, @pieterdewilde.bsky.social and I have examined how tweets by EU executives appeal to legitimacy beliefs – we find that they are more opinionated than we'd expected! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Just received this in the mail! This edited volume looks into various cases of differentiated integration (DI) in the Nordic countries, and I contributed with a chapter based on my PhD project about discursive linkages of migration and European integration. 1/5 www.routledge.com/Differentiat...

Lise Rye and I have made a database of political documents on Norwegian European policies in the period 1987-2022. It's available here: doi.org/10.18712/NSD... I hope this can contribute to more studies on Norway-EU relations (which hasn't become any less relevant these last weeks).

On this note, here is a thread with recent research on what normalization is and how it happens. It includes links to references, from my work and that of others. I tried to tag the authors whenever they are on here, in case you are interested in following their work. 1/8

Seems like a good day to reshare this recent study that shows how mainstream parties can fuel the success of the radical right by opening the door to them

We are hiring! 5-year postdoc position in International Relations at the Department of Political Science of @unisalzburg.bsky.social. Deadline for applications: 12 February 2025. Full information: tinyurl.com/postdocIP #Polisky #AcademicJobs

A favourite thing about living in Berlin: Discovering amazing music and getting tickets for a show next month in the same evening. youtu.be/WETpPlbdb3c

“We find that fact-checks are successful in debunking misperceptions. Moreover, this debunking effect is consistent across countries” Posting this key finding from our recent 16 country study. For no particular reason today. doi.org/10.1080/1520...

Could anyone inform me what this "range of domestic issues" refer to? Curious! www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Just a reminder that there were people claiming Syrian refugees were 'economic migrants' and it was perfectly safe for them to go back... www.bbc.com/news/article...

A friend of mine very rightly pointed out that I fit the target group for this joke perfectly. Now decorates my office door. If there are any other fellow Narnia-Brexit geeks on here, enjoy: m.xkcd.com/2218/

Took a crack at the Political Communication starter pack. Sorry for all the great folks I undoubtedly missed go.bsky.app/J1U6jVe

Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.

The Dutch government has decided to introduce border checks at its internal #Schengen borders with Germany, Belgium, as well as at airports. These will start in December and will initially last until June 2025. Why is this such an interesting development? 👇

1000 days of Russian invasion of Ukraine. 1000 days of senseless deaths. Of children being kidnapped. Of millions of refugees. Photo: Jędrzej Nowicki

I created a starter pack of academics working on EU 🇪🇺 politics and European integration 👇. Let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/Bg7sPSp

Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU

Made a starter pack for European Politics. Started with 27 profiles (wink wink) on a bit of everything, but feel free to (self-)recommend people to add. go.bsky.app/8UntgMG

My students are making podcasts in the course 'The EU in the public sphere' again this semester, and I'm in the market for good examples! Anything related to the EU goes, but extra happy about podcasts directly related to the topic of the course. 🧵 Here are the ones already on my list:

Exciting opportunity in Trondheim!

First seminar of the semester done! An overwhelming majority of my students would choose "Procrastination Deflector" as their academic superpower – good choice, although I think I would personally go for "Instant Caffeine Generation" right now. (Credit due to ChatGPT for superpower suggestions.).

So long, Dragvoll and NTNU! Feels quite strange leaving what has been my base since I first started my studies in 2011. Will miss wonderful colleagues and the Wednesday cinnamon buns. Will not miss rainy hallways.

Hør, hør!

Populist parties have rise. Populism hasn't. In this piece @goodauth.bsky.social, I discuss new research on how populist parties succeed. It's not because populism is more popular. goodauthority.org/news/right-w...

Berlin! Lovely to be back for a very stimulating workshop on external differentiation at Centre for British Studies at Humboldt Universität.