👏 We've been thrilled to welcome 2️⃣ new Assistant Professors this month! @dianebolet.bsky.social, working on the green backlash and the rise of the far right. Jonne Kamphorst, jointly affiliated with @cdsp-sciencespo.bsky.social, bringing expertise on democratic engagement & LLMs in social science.

Wenn deutsche Unis so weiterschlafen, haben wir AGI bevor auch nur eine Prüfungsordnung im KI-Zeitalter angekommen ist. @elvirarosert.bsky.social, Eva Herschinger und ich mit einem konstruktiven Vorschlag, wie man das Problem löst statt es nur zu bewundern. Danke an @taz.de - keine Paywall.

Künstliche Intelligenz an Hochschulen: Universität radikal umdenken

Für den Umgang mit KI an Unis gibt nur einen Weg: Eine grundsätzliche Neugestaltung des universitären Lernens und Prüfens. Vier Ideen für eine Reform.

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🚨 new publication alert The European Union increasingly faces external pressures. Whilst external pressures always mattered for European integration and EU studies, this article holds that they are more consequential today than in the past.

This text by @sophiabesch.bsky.social is well worth your time. Very good analysis, superbly written. carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

The Greenland Episode Must Be a Lesson for Europe and NATO

They cannot return to the comforts of asymmetric reliance, dressed up as partnership.

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@andreaseisl.bsky.social & @dzurstrassen.bsky.social on the EU's Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) Part of the Special Issue: European Integration in the Geopolitical Age by @lucasschramm91.bsky.social @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social. A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:

🌍The latest cleavage: the universalist divide @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social , @dpzollinger.bsky.social , @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @simonbornschier.bsky.social, and @lhaffert.bsky.social provide evidence from the 2024 European Election Study 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

10 days left to apply for our section on judicial politics, legal mobilisation and empirical legal studies at ECPR SGEU in Catania, Sicily on July 1-3, 2026. @tommasopavone.bsky.social and I look forward to your paper/panel submission!

Tommaso Pavone@tommasopavone.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Do you research judicial politics/legal mobilisation/empirical legal studies in the European Union? Submit your paper/panel proposal for the @ecprsgeu.bsky.social conference in Catania, Sicily on July 1-3 2026! @dnaurin.bsky.social & I are section co-chairs. Deadline Dec 10: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝 We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

🚨 New(ish) Publication Alert! Delighted to see my article Credit Claiming in the EU @thejop.bsky.social I explore a classic question for accountability in Europe: when and why do govs claim credit for the work of the EU and shift blame onto Brussels to avoid responsibility? doi.org/10.1086/732970

Credit Claiming in the European Union | The Journal of Politics: Vol 87, No 3

Incumbents in multilevel systems are assumed to exploit uncertainty of responsibility by claiming credit and shifting blame, yet little is known about when and how they engage in these rhetorical stra...

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Just out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social online first..Hurry up free copies expiring in 50..49..48..47 ..😁 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/25KK9... Special thanks to @lucasschramm91.bsky.social and @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social guest editors of the Special Issue: European Integration in the Geopolitical Age

War as external cause: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the theorising of European integration and EU politics, and the EU’s arduous formation in foreign and security policy

Russia’s war in Ukraine from February 2022 has had massive effects on Europe’s Union and its member states, prompting changes in policy, new policies, discussions of options and potential future tr...

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The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.

Last Friday (Sept. 19), @andduer.bsky.social, @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social, @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social and I had the great pleasure of hosting an excellent workshop at @unisalzburg.bsky.social on how to use Large Language Models #LLMs to boost International Relations research. A short 🧵1/4

You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU? Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇 @bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 12mo ago

▶️ European + EU Politics 👉🏽 Section chairs: @bjornhoyland.bsky.social @chriswratil.bsky.social 📢 This section welcomes work on politics in Europe, European integration & the EU, using qualitative or quantitative approaches, single-country or comparative. 1/

📘64.4 Varieties of pro-Europeanism? 🇪🇺🤷‍♀️ @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social & M. Weinrich look at what impact party support for the #RedistributivePolity & #RegulatoryPolity across four European Parliament elections between 2009-2024 and finds cultural and economic influences Read more:

Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union

Having long shied away from proactively politicizing issues of European integration, the past crisis decade has put generally pro-European mainstream parties under pressure to spell out more clearly…

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The EU is a market with 450 million people. There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities. Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...

Trump Wants Europe to Stop Regulating Big Tech. Will It Bend?

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Buket Buse Demirci, @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social, and Frank Schimmelfennig examine how the EU reacts to geopolitical pressures 👇 🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Last month, I had the honor of giving the @jcms-eu.bsky.social Annual Lecture at @ces-europe.bsky.social in Philadelphia. I spoke about the geopolitical uncertainty 🇪🇺 faces from 🇺🇸, 🇷🇺, & 🇨🇳, & how this poses 3 crises 🇪🇺 must respond to with more leadership & deeper integration. Summary/video/slides:

JCMS/CES Annual Lecture: "Europe Adrift: The Future of the EU, the Global Economy, and World Order in an Era of Great Power Uncertainty"

Last month, I had the honor of delivering the Journal of Common Market Studies Annual Lecture at the Council for European Studies Conference in Philadelphia. The theme of the conference was “Legacies ...

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Together with my brilliant colleagues Stacie E Goddard, Ronald R Krebs, and Berthold Rittberger, we published a piece in #ForeignAffairsMagazine: "Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order"! www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order

A less legalistic system would help protect democracies.

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📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by ‪@sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter. In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section. I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.

APSA@apsa.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to the 2025 APSA Award Winners APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 APSA awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. Recipients will be honored at the…

Very happy to see our work published on @wepsocial.bsky.social! Together with @uwepuetter.bsky.social, we propose the concept of the EU core executive to explain how the Union responds to major cross-sectoral policy challenges like the Green Deal. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Here is what we find ⬇️

The EU core executive and the Green Deal

The Green Deal has been one of the European Union’s (EU) boldest, cross-sectoral policy responses. Public administration scholarship suggests that such endeavours rely on coercion by pivotal execut...

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It seems that the Commission will indeed propose one big fund to cover all existing structural funds and the CAP and to organise the payout from this fund via a single national plan That would mean a huge departure from how the EU budget and the MFF negotiations have worked so far. Here is why:

Took months of work, but @aagilli.bsky.social and I are proud to bring you a paper that deals with the true elephant in the room: Should the EU equip itself with a nuclear deterrent, and if so, how? www.bruegel.org/working-pape...

How can Europe’s nuclear deterrence trilemma be resolved?

Uncertainty over U.S. nuclear support is forcing Europe to choose between vulnerability, shared deterrence or nuclear proliferation

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Bruegel@bruegel.org · last yr.

⚛️ With the threat of US nuclear support, will Europe: ⛓️‍💥 Maintain the status quo and risk nuclear blackmail? 🛡️ Implement a strategy of joint deterrence? ☢️ Allow nuclear proliferation in Europe? 🖊️ By‪ @aagilli.bsky.social‬ and‪ @francesconicoli.bsky.social‬ 🔗 buff.ly/UJaHv90 #EconSky

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Thrilled to share my new publication @epsrjournal.bsky.social! When we think of lobbying, we often picture big businesses or NGOs. But regional governments lobby, too! But what makes govts-as-lobbyists successful? I study intergovt lobbying success based on a multi-year data collection effort

#jobs 🚨🚨🚨 4 postdocs in Münster: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5... I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!

Postdoctoral Research Associate - EU Forscher*in - (salary level E 13 TV-L, 100 %)

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📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5