Fantastic job opportunity at the European University Institute in Florence: Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics Application deadline: October 15. @eui-sps.bsky.social www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
Doro Bohle
@dorobohle.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science at University of Vienna. Interested in political economy, especially in Europe's East.
I was there too - travelling by train, but not that this matters in the bigger scheme of things. This type of conferencing is unsustainable given fuel prices, climate catastrophes and infrastructure breakdowns. And its just one part of the academic business model breaking down.
I was just there, on a day trip after the SASE conference in Bordeaux. Where thousands of academics had gathered (in unbearably hot university buildings). Many (most?) had travelled there by plane. Still thinking that if we keep doing conferences at all, we need much stricter air travel rules.
📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history
More details on Orbán's Investments in building the radical right international
.atlatszo.hu obtained contracts from the Danube Institute, a key node in Orbán's network linking European right-wing populists with MAGA. Just before the election, it signed record-value deals, using public funds to court Anglo-American right-wingers. VSquare.org
Indeed, worth reading the whole piece.
Worth reading the whole thing!
Love it!
Last week, we had a lovely launch of the DFG Research Network "Qualitative Studies of Public Opinion" that I coordinate with Lena Röllicke & Anna Berg. Over the next three years, we want to add to the current revival of qualitative political research. More here: linuswestheuser.com/dfg-network-...
NYTimes picks up the empire suicide watch interview - free link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/o... the better, longer version here: phenomenalworld.org/interviews/e... @70sbachchan.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Opinion | There Are Two Trump Administrations Right Now. And an Empire?
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Third paper from our #assetstruggles SI online! Mareike Beck makes the very important point that assets can also fuel conflict within households, often taking a gendered form not only because of the gender wealth gap but also because of qualitative differences in the assets women and men hold.
Slowly catching up with recent posts on @phenomenalworld.bsky.social . @thunen.bsky.social interview on empire and suicide is simply great. phenomenalworld.org/interviews/e...
Empire Suicide Watch | Herman Mark Schwartz
Examining the anatomy of US power
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„Bildung ist eine zentrale Zukunftsinvestition“, schreibt das Bundeskanzleramt. Doch jetzt plant die Bundesregierung massive Kürzungen bei den Universitäten. Das gefährdet Forschung, Lehre und damit unsere gemeinsame Zukunft. mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/un...
Jetzt unterzeichnen: #unisretten – keine Kürzungen bei den Universitäten!
Die Regierung plant massive Einsparungen bei den Universitäten. Forschung, Lehre und freie Wissenschaft stehen jetzt auf dem Spiel.
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Chernobyl museum destroyed in yesterday’s attack
😱 Missiles flew over Sofia Kyivska: the strike on the Chornobyl Museum in Podil was caught on video
I grew up watching Arte documentaries and if you ever told me I'd be in one on Money, I'd have laughed incredulously. www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...
Money (4/12) - Le roi dollar - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
En 1971, le président Nixon annonce la fin de la convertibilité du dollar en or, bouleversant le système économique mondial. Pourtant, le dollar demeure la valeur refuge du monde entier et conserve so...
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Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf 📅 Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2027 um 13.00 🏛️ Start am Ring vor dem Hauptgebäude der Uni Wien www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...
Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf
Rektor Schütze:
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I have 3 reviews sitting on my desk right now and I’ve been avoiding them bc of how long it’s going to take to look up every reference to see if it’s hallucinated. This is not sustainable.
BREAKING: Viktor Orbán quits Hungary's parliament after 36 years – confirming my earlier scoop that he's planning a longer US trip this summer, where heads of the Orbán business empire – his daughter and son-in-law – already live, and where he could possibly seek refuge from prosecution.
Great news for the WZB!
Very happy to share that I am going to be the new Director of the Democracy unit at the @wzb.bsky.social Berlin Social Science Center. I am excited to form a new research unit on democratic politics and to engage with people in Berlin and elsewhere to make liberal democracy more resilient.
There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China. But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves. New paper & thread 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
single-member district results rn at #HungarianElections –– landslide for #TISZA, #Fidesz is washed away. Also a personal 1st: voted for someone who actually won the first time in my life
Hungary: National parliament election Turnout at 3:00 PM CEST 2010: 46.78% 2014: 45.02% 2018: 53.64% 2022: 52.75% 2026: 66.01% Source: Nemzeti Választási Iroda ➤ europeelects.eu/hungary #Hungary
Great analysis of the political economy of Orbán's rule, and why it is now coming apart.
Stacie E. Goddard and Abraham Newman’s neo-royalist framework not only captures the logic of Viktor Orbán’s rule, but also goes a long way toward explaining why it is unraveling. ⌛A read for the longest two days. @abenewman.bsky.social brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/the-house-...
If you have not followed the Hungarian election campaign here is a primer. Be prepared for many nasty twists
If you have Hungarian friends, please check in on them. Netflix has nothing on this election campaign: a twisting spy scandal, Russian meddling, Orbán off the rails. And we still have four days left. I wrote a (still slightly incredulous) rundown 👇 brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/inside-hun...
What a depressing email to wake up to. 1. Of all the books to review, Nature chose the one by a propagandist of Orbán? 2. I published “The Far Right Today” with Polity, thinking they would become my main publisher. Despite some dubious publications, they were solid. Then a new editor arrived.
Always hugely insightful to listen to Helen Thompson.
‘We can’t go back to a world in which the assumptions are that transit through that part of the world of energy is relatively straightforward.’ Helen Thompson on Iran, oil and Trump’s resource politics, on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
If so, Europe must abandon the omnibus deregulatory onslaught and instead resuscitate its ability to plan the damn green transition
Europe must prepare for 'long-lasting' energy shock, EU energy commissioner tells FT reut.rs/4mc2sSP
very thoughtful thread on the challenges lying ahead for Hungary even in the best of all bad cases.
T-14 days until the Hungarian election. 🇭🇺🗳️ In this thread, I discuss Magyar's prospects of success in restoring (liberal) democracy (if he wins) and will tell you he's not the saviour you might think he is (but that he’s still good enough for now). 🧵 1/
join @filipkostelka.bsky.social @zsofia-v.bsky.social Imogen Bayley & me in Florence @eui-eu.bsky.social or via Zoom on 16 April, as we discuss the implications of the #HungarianElection 🇭🇺🗳️ Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...