Around the world, ex-presidents from Jimmy Carter to Nelson Mandela have become influential voices for peace, reconciliation and human rights. Irish presidents can now do the same thanks to Mary Robinson. My article in @irishtimes.com. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Dermot Hodson: Mary Robinson transformed what it meant to be president - and ex-president

Áras an Uachtaráin has never been a retirement home, and it now no longer backs on to one

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'Ambitious, experimental and sprawling, FrielDays is exactly the sort of artistic work that needs public funding to drive debate on what sort of society we want to live in'. Read my article in today's Irish Times on FrielDays and the fickle world of arts funding. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Opinion: There’s a bitter irony in the failure of a celebration of Friel’s work to get funding

The playwright understood better than most how fickle the world of arts funding could be

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@jcms-eu.bsky.social Annual Review of the EU 2024 is out! Quo Vadis Europa? Thanks to Sergio Fabbrini, Philipp Genschel & Markus Jachtenfuchs for debating 10 years of new intergovernmentalism with @dermothodson.bsky.social and me. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 It’s publication day for the updated, paperback edition of 'Circle of Stars: A History of the EU - And The People Who Made It'. I've been bowled over by the response to the hardback and can't wait for the book to reach an even wider readership @YaleBooks yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

'However frustrated Bloom would have been over the project’s delays, he would have nodded vigorously at its proposed route, especially the section from Glasnevin to Mater station on his own Eccles Street.' My @theguardian.com article on Joyce, Dublin & MetroLink: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dublin is the only large European capital without a metro: what would Leopold Bloom make of that? | Dermot Hodson

In James Joyce’s Ulysses, the city’s most famous fictional resident was as frustrated by its transport links in 1904 as many of us are today, says professor of political economy Dermot Hodson

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Dublin's transport links through the eyes of Leopold Bloom. Read the article by Professor @dermothodson.bsky.social for the @theguardian.com. bit.ly/4l3xwlM

Dublin is the only large European capital without a metro: what would Leopold Bloom make of that? | Dermot Hodson

In James Joyce’s Ulysses, the city’s most famous fictional resident was as frustrated by its transport links in 1904 as many of us are today, says professor of political economy Dermot Hodson

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'Ulysses’ fixation with transport...doesn’t just provide colour and comic relief. It carries James Joyce’s own hopes for a new Ireland that achieves its potential.' As Bloomsday nears, read my article on Dublin's controversial metro project in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dublin is the only large European capital without a metro: what would Leopold Bloom make of that? | Dermot Hodson

In James Joyce’s Ulysses, the city’s most famous fictional resident was as frustrated by its transport links in 1904 as many of us are today, says professor of political economy Dermot Hodson

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🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 Out now in @jei-publication.bsky.social with @steffenmurau.bsky.social @agutersandu.bsky.social and Armin Haas: Issuing EU debt despite fiscal rules, what we can learn from the limitations of the EU covid recovery fund, and what it all has to do with a famous cat ⬇️ 🧵

"Many theories of European Integration have articulated, explicitly or implicitly, a sense of EU hegemony". Interesting and timely new take on integration theory by @patrickholden.bsky.social in @jei-publication.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What kind of hegemony? The European Union in its region

Despite many crises the European Union has sustained deep geoeconomic power throughout Europe. This consensual, flexible and structural form of power is best understood as hegemonic in nature. The ...

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Interested in teaching EU governance, political economy and crises—but don't know where to start? Then this one’s for you doi.org/10.1080/0703... Thanks to 3 excellent recent volumes by @manuelamoschella.bsky.social+co-authors @amyverdun.bsky.social @achimhurrelmann.bsky.social A Bongardt/F Torres

50 years ago today, the first European Council was held in Dublin, putting the heads of state or government at the centre of European integration. For all its shortcomings, it has been remarkably effective at building & maintaining consensus in times of crisis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rBt...

50th Anniversary of the 1st European Council Meeting

YouTube video by MerrionStreetNews

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Why does the largest trading bloc on the planet have a miniature-sized currency? With Trump, the EU will again much regret this. 🎈In a new working paper, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I set out to theorise failure and develop a new IPE perspective that foregrounds offshore money. A thread 🧵

I'm excited to be directing a workshop on the future of FinTech with @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions in Prague from 20-23 May 2025. If you are interested in money, power and finance in the digital age, please submit an abstract by 21 November. ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

The Future of FinTech: Money, Power and Finance in the Digital Age

European Consortium for Political Research

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'Zelenskiy can labour under no illusions about how difficult it will be for his country to join the EU'. Read my article in the Guardian on Ukraine's perilous path to EU membership. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Will Ukraine really join the EU? The answer lies with the countries facing the bill | Dermot Hodson

Upcoming membership talks must balance high political aspirations with thorny practical issues from subsidies to grain, says author Dermot Hodson

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