🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.22 🌍 What motivates #EU enlargement? Based on @jeppjournal.bsky.social research, @mariusghincea.bsky.social & Laurențiu Pleșca argue that the Union's approach has evolved through 3 overlapping logics 🔀 : transformation, stabilisation, and demarcation. 👉 bit.ly/44udqMf

Postdoc in Narrative Geopolitics @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social We’re looking for a postdoc w expertise in machine learning, data mining, or related quantitative methods to explore how emotionally charged narratives shape international security & great power politics. fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

"What Good is a Regression? Inference to the Best Explanation and the Practice of Political Science Research" from Spirling and Stewart journal: doi.org/10.1086/734280

🇷🇴 elections crisis: The structural drivers of the far-right vote in Romania seem rooted in geographies of discontent, regions where people feel left behind by growth and lack opportunities. Counties that lag behind in economic performance consistently register higher shares of far-right support.

🇷🇴 Election crisis: Romania’s Social Democrats (PSD/ S&D) have withdrawn from the governing coalition after the joint candidate of the Social Democrats, National Liberals and the Hungarian minority failed to advance to the second round of the presidential elections, sparking a political crisis.

Excited to share my latest article (with Laurențiu Pleșca) published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social We show how the EU’s enlargement policy motivations have shifted—from transformation to stabilization and now demarcation—especially after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

My book review of @lucasschramm91.bsky.social book is out at SPSR. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in the crisis-afflicted history of European integration. Compelling, empirically rich, theoretically very well grounded. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Romania has tried over the years to reshape Black Sea security while facing regional challenges. In my latest article for the International Politics and Society magazine, I delve into Bucharest’s thinking and the complexities of regional cooperation. www.ips-journal.eu/topics/forei...

🚨 New article🚨 Why do some countries keep their military aid to Ukraine secret? Marius Ghincea’s 2025 study finds that electoral incentives, security concerns, and bureaucratic culture influence disclosure decisions. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Ever wondered why Poland and Romania—both on NATO’s Eastern flank and neighboring Ukraine—have adopted such contrasting disclosure policies regarding their military aid to Kyiv?

If you try to force a rational strategy explanation onto decisions made by emotional impulse, you'll eventually come up with something, but it won't be accurate. Sometimes adults who look like they're throwing a fit in public are really just throwing a childish fit in public, but with more power.

Great news from Poland.

#AcademicBlueSky, what article employing a systematic comparative case study research design would you recommend as a good example?

"The Expertise Paradox: How Policy Expertise Can Hinder Responsiveness" out @BJPS. The basic idea is that there is a trade-off between having MPs with policy expertise and having MPs responsive to public opinion, although political institutions often try to promote both bit.ly/46nghoP