We are looking for an associate editor to join @jocelynmawdsley.bsky.social @laurachappell.bsky.social & @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social in editing European Security. Interested in getting editorial experience? More info here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... Deadline 31/10/25.

Performing and (re)producing the contested state: George Sebastian Fartan & @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social on the case of Transnistria www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⚠️New #openaccesarticle online! 🗣️ Performing the (Contested) State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of #Transnistria’s Political Elites 🔍 Find out more here: https://shorturl.at/Uky81#openaccesarticle#Transnistria ✒️ George Sebastian Fartan & @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam)

Delighted to find my article on #RuleofLaw conditionality in the #EU, co-authored with @adamholesch.bsky.social from @ibei.org, in the latest issue of @jcms-eu.bsky.social (incidentally, in the good company of @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social) and many others...

7/7 🚩 European NATO can stop Russia without U.S. ground forces—if it acts decisively and prepares. Our full open-access paper here: 📄 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Vol 34 (2) is now available. Interested in military contractors, France, the EU and Tunisia, customs security, EU delegations and crisis management, Sino-Belgian research cooperation , Poland in Iraq, military social media use or OSINT? Click here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/feus20/3...

New OA article: The European Parliament's foreign policy behaviour: the case of EU foreign policy towards Ukraine following the Russian war of aggression by Elena Baracani and Michele Danesi: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to report for the journal metrics fans out there that our CiteScore has gone up to 6.1. We are now ranked by Scopus as 45/738 of Politics and IR journals.

We're very happy to announce that our latest JCR impact factor is 3.6, making us a Q1 journal in Area Studies (1/182), IR (12/169) and Political Science (29/322). Thanks to our editorial board, authors, reviewers and readers for all that you do to help us!

What role does gender equality play in the EU’s civilian Common Security and Defence Policy? Adopting a feminist institutionalist framework, Eileen Mullen & @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social seek to answer this question by examining three civilian CSDP missions. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/eraHm

In June 2024, we—the YugoslaWomen+ Collective—held actions at CEE-ISA in Rijeka to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. A modest intervention turned into one of the weirdest & tensest academic events we've experienced. Our reflection on organised silence and academic resistance 👇 shorturl.at/Yr8c9

It's not a "situation". It's not "beyond what is necessary". It's crimes, @kajakallas.bsky.social. The worst possible crimes, in fact. Statements like this only show the EU doesn't even have the "courage" to CALL them for what they are, let alone ACT upon them. We are sick and tired of this.

The article reads Chantal Mouffe's conception of 'consensus' and @bonniehonig.bsky.social 's notion of 'remainders' through the #homonormativity theories of #homonationalism, -colonialism and -capitalism by Jasbir Puar, Momin Rahman and @rahulraothariel.bsky.social.

Happy to see my contribution to the @jcms-eu.bsky.social Special Issue “Towards Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union's Global Role” published. doi.org/10.1111/jcms...

It was great to be part of the panel "Outsourced Empire? Questioning Norms and Values of EU External Relations" at #EUIA2025 with DFUTURE colleagues. In times of genocide, we refused to carry on with “conference as usual", a small but necessary act of refusal against complicity.

Friends and colleagues have been asking how to support me and my Politics colleagues caught up in this. You could sign this: www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

No conferencing as usual during genocides! Given the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza, we invite you to join us on Thursday (22 May) at 12:45 at The Thinker statue inside VUB’s campus for an action in solidarity with Gaza. #EUIA25

Don’t miss our 2 panels in #EUIA25! We’ll be sharing early findings from the forthcoming SI we've guest edited in @jcms-eu.bsky.social with @norafisheronar.bsky.social and @dhuber.bsky.social "Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the #EU’s role as a Global Actor". @aissr.bsky.social

Check out contributions from the likes of @msanjaume.bsky.social, Lesley-Ann Daniels, Janis Grzybowski, @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social, @irenefmolina.bsky.social, Megan Price, @georgekyris.bsky.social, Maurice Brisland, and Argyro Kartsonaki!

Weekly round-up! 📚 It has been a busy month for JCMS, with new and insightful research being published every week. Here are some articles you may have missed ➡️ bit.ly/3RAuaKv @cardwellpj.bsky.social @rguerrina.bsky.social @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social

Hot off the press! #Queering #EuropeanUnion #Foreign and #Security policy: #Invisibility, #heteronormativity and #binaries in the EU’s approach to #WPS with Saul Kenny and Hanna Muhlenhoff! @aissr.bsky.social @fmg-uva.bsky.social @jcms-eu.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

There's still time to sign up for this! This Thursday lunchtime Lata Narayanaswamy and I will be discussing the collapse of the liberal world order, humanitarian implications, and the possibilities for doing things differently. www.kuno-platform.nl/events/the-c...

Always a pleasure to return to the College of Europe in Natolin to teach my course on #EU-#MiddleEast relations.These are challenging times but critical discussion remains more important than ever. A heartfelt thank you to my students—keep striving and fighting for a better, more just world!

New publication with Eileen Mullen, The Interrelationship Between #Gender and #European Union #Foreign Policy: A #Feminist Institutionalist Analysis of #EULEX Kosovo, #EUPOLCOPPS and #EUMM Georgia. #CSDP #FFP @aissr.bsky.social @fmg-uva.bsky.social @jird-jour.bsky.social rdcu.be/ecZZ0

“The cancellation of university lectures due to political pressure paints a grim picture of the state of academic freedom, which should make any German worried. But it was the climate of harassment and intimidation that truly exposed Germany’s tightening grip on fundamental freedoms.”

New OA article with George Sebastian Fartan analyzing how Transnistrian political elites perform the state through their discourses. @fmg-uva.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is the best two minute elevator pitch of my book (told from the top of a mountain). Everyone should follow Seb as he documents his current work, travels, and struggles against borders.

The @ecpr.bsky.social Gender Study 2024 just came in. I am shocked by the numbers. Especially dramatic is the percentage of women authors published in ECPR-journals: 26% in 2024, compared to 35% in 2023. Please, don't try to fix the women, fix the @##$! system.

New OA article: The Hungarian government’s rhetoric on Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine and its articulation of a Hungarian security identity by @mbgoransson.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How not to support the Gaza ceasefire - my post on how @kajakallas.bsky.social's statement last week bought into Netanyahu's spin and why the EU needs to do better eumep.org/blog/how-not...

Just to remind our followers that the deadline for special issue proposals for our annual competition is 28/3/25.

On International Women’s Day, solidarity with the women of Palestine, Sudan, Congo and all others living under bombs, bullets and forced displacement. No feminism without peace, justice and freedom from imperialism and colonialism ✌️✊🇵🇸 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 PhD vacature @aissr.bsky.social: Interesse in jongerenafdelingen van partijen en mannelijkheid? Affiniteit met kwalitatieve onderzoeksmethoden, Nederlandssprekend en een MA of Research MA op zak voor 1 september? Dan is deze vacature wellicht wat voor jou. 👇 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

#Jobalert! We're looking for new colleagues! ⏰ Like two PhD candidates for the ‘Political Masculinities in Europe’ research project, supervised by @lizamugge.bsky.social Check them all 👇 ➡️ English vacancies: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... ➡️ Dutch vacancies: werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures?o=...

📢 Postdoc job alert 'Politcal Masculinities and Young Voters. The position is part of my NWO-VICI-project Political Masculinities in Europe . Please, share with potentially interested candidates with survey skills and expertise in quantitative methods. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

A well-paid, four-year PhD position in political theory/philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, to work primarily with my wonderful colleagues Lillian Cicerchia and Paul Raekstad, and also a bit with yours truly. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Less than a week ago at EU-Israel Association Council, EU called on Israel to allow unimpeded aid to Gaza. It also called for respect of Syria’s sovereignty & territorial integrity. As Israel moves to do the exact opposite on both fronts, will the EU do anything? If not, what was the whole AC for?

Have you got an idea for a special issue on any aspect of European Security? Our annual competition this time for a 2026 special issue is open. Deadline = 28/3/25 and all the details on what we're looking for are here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/feu... Our emails are in the link for any queries!

A true intellectual does not only transmit knowledge but also empowers the audience! Thank you so much Francesca for such an empowering, informative and inspirational evening! @aissr.bsky.social @fmg-uva.bsky.social

#Academia must be more than a silent witness. It must be a battleground for #truth, #facts and #research. @aissr.bsky.social @fmg-uva.bsky.social

What an evening this was, sharing the stage with the intellectual powerhouse called #FrancescaAlbanese! A big thanks to everyone who helped organize this event at a time when our governments welcome war criminals with open arms but try to silence human rights defenders and #internationallaw.

Happy to see that our article found a nice home ⏬

34(1) OA Measuring the effectiveness of counter-disinformation strategies in the Czech security forces by @miriammatej.bsky.social Jakub Drmola & @spacpeter.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

34(1) OA Securitising information in European borders: how can democracies balance openness with curtailing Russian malign information influence? by Charlotte Wagnsson, Maria Hellman and Aiden Hoyle: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

34(1) Mapping resolve in crisis bargaining through leader public statements: an examination of the United States’ statements about Bosnia and Kosovo by Melike Ayşe Kocacık Şenol: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

34(1) The everyday life of a security project: the “Security Union” in the EU’s “engine room” by @alinebastein.bsky.social Hendrik Hegemann & Oliver Merschel: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

34(1) OA A European narrative of border externalisation: the European trust fund for Africa story by Agnese Pacciardi: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

34(1) OA What can European security architecture look like in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine? by @ditrych.bsky.social & Martin Larys: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

34(1) The rise of China and the US-Western Europe alliance: a crack in the liberal building? by Antonio Pagan Sanchez www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....