I am very much looking forward to chairing the panel on "Responding to Non-Cooperation in International Relations" at #EPSS2026! Together with an excellent group of colleagues, we will discuss a research agenda for studying responses to non-cooperation in #InternationalRelations! Join us! #Polisky

ERC project DISINTEGRATION@disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

DISINTEGRATION research at #EPSS2026! * How do political parties speak about IOs? by @tommccraehunter.bsky.social & @stefwalter.bsky.social * A theoretical framework on how to think about responses to non-cooperation in intl. politics by @lisadellmuth.bsky.social & @stefwalter.bsky.social

Non-cooperation is a regular feature of international politics, but research on its various forms is fragmented across IR subfields. Our agenda-setting panel proposes and discusses a more unified framework for studying how actors respond to non-cooperation. Overview paper: shorturl.at/HbIvU

📣 Looking forward to this #EPSS2026 Roundtable today Brexit Turns 10: Tribes, Treaties, Trajectories 13:30-15:10| Hall 1A (ICC) With a great panel: John Garry @sarahagemann.bsky.social @anandmenon.bsky.social James Tilley

Really excited and thankful to be part of this great panel chaired by @ta-huikuri.bsky.social. Great research on how the contestation of the LIO, IOs, and trade more generally plays out across various domestic arenas.

DISINTEGRATION research at #EPSS2026! * How do political parties speak about IOs? by @tommccraehunter.bsky.social & @stefwalter.bsky.social * A theoretical framework on how to think about responses to non-cooperation in intl. politics by @lisadellmuth.bsky.social & @stefwalter.bsky.social

Stefanie Walter@stefwalter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

First conference day at #EPSS2026. Very much looking forward to learning about new research, inspiration for next steps, and seeing colleagues and friends. I am particularly excited about these two panels:

Great summary of the core findings of the DISINTEGRATION @erc.europa.eu project!

How the rising backlash against international institutions can spread

Research explored how to contain the spread of popular sentiment against international cooperation beyond borders.,,,European Commission

cordis.europa.eu

Great reporting on the contagion risks of the Trump presidency, drawing in parts on insights from the @disintegrationerc.bsky.social project.

Is America contagious?

Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.

motherjones.com

(5/5) This supports findings from this other great @jeppjournal.bsky.social article by Marco Martini and @stefwalter.bsky.social on how Brexit shapes nationalist rhetoric in media coverage outside the UK. doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Learning from precedent: how the British Brexit experience shapes nationalist rhetoric outside the UK

The liberal international order has recently come under increasing nationalist pressure, evidenced by a rise in nationalist demands to withdraw from international institutions. A growing literature...

doi.org

(1/5) My article Disintegration and Party Competition is out in the latest issue of @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! I ask how parties in other member states reacted to #Brexit. Do #Eurosceptic challengers frame it as an example to follow? Or do they instead row back on ‘hard’ demands to #leave the EU?

JEPP Journal@jeppjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

▶️ @tommccraehunter.bsky.social on how British parties framed Brexit

So thanks to the ERWG members - @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social, @catherinedevries.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social & @markkayser.bsky.social - for being such a great group to work with. And I am excited to continue our work with the entire awesome @epssnet.bsky.social Council!

Stefanie Walter@stefwalter.bsky.social · last yr.

Back home after an eventful weekend - I am proud of what we have created (even if we had hoped to arrive at a more consensual way forward). Our work in the EPSA reform working group has been intense. Still, doing this with such an engaged, friendly & creative group has been a privilege and treat.

Back home after an eventful weekend - I am proud of what we have created (even if we had hoped to arrive at a more consensual way forward). Our work in the EPSA reform working group has been intense. Still, doing this with such an engaged, friendly & creative group has been a privilege and treat.

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · last yr.

🌍 European Political Science Society is officially launched (EPSS)! 🗓️ June 26, 2025 📍EPSS is a not-for-profit & member-led association for political science in Europe 👉 Visit us: epssnet.org Some updates 👇🏽 🧵

🚨 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. 🧵

(1/3) I am excited to be on 2 great panels at #EPSA in Madrid! On Thursday 26 June (09:30 - 11:10, Room 0A.06) I present joint work with @stefwalter.bsky.social on Parties and IOs on the panel ‘Text analysis in the Study of IR’ chaired by @andduer.bsky.social

Highly innovative design with fine-grained implementation: truly recommend the read !

ERC project DISINTEGRATION@disintegrationerc.bsky.social · last yr.

DISINTEGRATION publ #9 @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social show key events in UK Brexit politics affected EU attitudes in other countries: foreign events can influence voters’ attitudes in other countries and events like Brexit have systemic consequences! doi.org/10.1177/1465...

Much of my research in the last six years has revolved around the @disintegrationerc.bsky.social project. I am so proud of my team and all we have achieved, and grateful to the @erc.europa.eu for making this possible. If you want to know what we did, this thread is for you:

ERC project DISINTEGRATION@disintegrationerc.bsky.social · last yr.

Today marks the final day of the DISINTEGRATION project, a project on the mass politics of disintegration generously funded by the @erc.europa.eu . We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found: 1/20

Congratulations to the DISINTEGRATION team! And because our world still remains mostly integrated, it is fitting that in several hours, Cornell students taking Introduction to Comparative Politics with me will be discussing some of its outputs (with this "feature slide" of today's assigned author)

ERC project DISINTEGRATION@disintegrationerc.bsky.social · last yr.

Today marks the final day of the DISINTEGRATION project, a project on the mass politics of disintegration generously funded by the @erc.europa.eu . We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found: 1/20

Great thread on an important, ambitious research project led by the brilliant @stefwalter.bsky.social - with insights and findings that are more relevant than ever given the challenges facing all major international organisations 👇

ERC project DISINTEGRATION@disintegrationerc.bsky.social · last yr.

Today marks the final day of the DISINTEGRATION project, a project on the mass politics of disintegration generously funded by the @erc.europa.eu . We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found: 1/20

To celebrate the successful conclusion of the DISINTEGRATION project, we are creating a thread that presents all published research completed in the project. We'll post one paper a day – stay tuned!

ERC project DISINTEGRATION@disintegrationerc.bsky.social · last yr.

Our project produced – and continues to produce – a lot of output, both on various aspects of the accommodation dilemma framework, and on broader (non-)cooperation dynamics. In the coming weeks, we will post a link to each article and short summaries. 14/20

Today marks the final day of the DISINTEGRATION project, a project on the mass politics of disintegration generously funded by the @erc.europa.eu . We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found: 1/20

Seeing all the current and former DISINTEGRATION team members again was wonderful. It makes me so happy and proud to hear about their learnings from the project and their exciting plans going forward. What a great group, and a lasting legacy of the DISINTEGRATION project!

ERC project DISINTEGRATION@disintegrationerc.bsky.social · last yr.

What a pleasure to reflect on the learnings, achievements and ways forward from the DISINTEGRATION project with former and current team members and our wonderful advisory board at Kloster Fischingen. Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.

Thank you to @stefwalter.bsky.social and the rest of the DISINTEGRATION team for an inspiring workshop on the timely issue of challenges to international organisations - in beautiful Swiss surroundings!

ERC project DISINTEGRATION@disintegrationerc.bsky.social · last yr.

What a pleasure to reflect on the learnings, achievements and ways forward from the DISINTEGRATION project with former and current team members and our wonderful advisory board at Kloster Fischingen. Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.

Many thanks to @stefwalter.bsky.social, the DISINTEGRATION project team, and fellow advisors @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @dustintingley.bsky.social for two days of stimulating discussions and fun company in the Swiss countryside!

ERC project DISINTEGRATION@disintegrationerc.bsky.social · last yr.

What a pleasure to reflect on the learnings, achievements and ways forward from the DISINTEGRATION project with former and current team members and our wonderful advisory board at Kloster Fischingen. Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.

What a pleasure to reflect on the learnings, achievements and ways forward from the DISINTEGRATION project with former and current team members and our wonderful advisory board at Kloster Fischingen. Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.

Newest publication from the @erc.europa.eu project @disintegrationerc.bsky.social .

Stefanie Walter@stefwalter.bsky.social · last yr.

Every once in a while, we write articles we truly care about. This is one of them, and I am so happy and proud to see it published at ISQ:

Graph of the month: As the DISINTEGRATION project enters its final month, here is its core theoretical contribution: A framework that predicts that the relative size of cooperation gains at risk and contagion risks shape the extent to which states accommodate non-cooperation by others or not.

The workshop featured an impressive line-up of contributions, including results from the organizers' @erc.europa.eu funded projects: the @disintegrationerc.bsky.social project of @stefwalter.bsky.social and the #EUROBORD project of Frank Schimmelfennig.

It was an amazing experience to exchange about current challenges to the #EU 🇪🇺 and its transformations above the Lago Maggiore last week! 🤓🏔️

What an amazing workshop and line-up – thanks a lot, @stefwalter.bsky.social and Frank Schimmelfennig, for this great opportunity to exchange about current challenges to the EU and its transformations above the Lago Maggiore!

ERC project DISINTEGRATION@disintegrationerc.bsky.social · last yr.

Concluding three inspiring and insightful days of talking research and thinking about EU integration, its boundaries, and integration and disintegration dynamics with a fantastic set of people on Monte Verità.

Concluding three inspiring and insightful days of talking research and thinking about EU integration, its boundaries, and integration and disintegration dynamics with a fantastic set of people on Monte Verità.

ERC project DISINTEGRATION@disintegrationerc.bsky.social · last yr.

Today starts the Workshop "The changing boundaries of European integration", co-organized by the DISINTEGRATION (@stefwalter.bsky.social) and EUROBOR (Frank Schimmelfennig) @erc.europa.eu projects and generously co-sponsored by the CSF. We look forward to three insightful days on Monte Verità!

Thanks to @stefwalter.bsky.social & Frank Schimmelfennig for organizing a fab workshop (what a location). So much great work in progress on Europe and even some ~hopeful thoughts on the future 💙 @hayleypring.bsky.social @acalacino.bsky.social and I are extra grateful for the comments on our paper!

Stefanie Walter@stefwalter.bsky.social · last yr.

Enjoying my train ride to Locarno and looking forward to three inspiring days discussing European integration and its challenges. I'm especially excited about the two roundtables which will help us to jointly make some sense of all that's currently happening.