New in JCMS: @svenschreurs.bsky.social on the EU Platform Work Directive, how pressure, legal creativity & timing broke deadlock & set new rules for platform work, & what this means for EU regulatory capacity. Read open-access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #EUPolitics #JCMS #UACES

Regulating Uncharted Waters: The EU Platform Work Directive Between Uncertainty, Lobbyism and Politicisation

In 2024, the EU adopted a much-debated directive on improving working conditions in platform work, which aims to facilitate the correct classification of people performing platform work and regulates...

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Thinking of submitting to JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies? We’re here to support authors at every stage, from developing ideas to publication. Explore our aims, editorial priorities, and practical submission guidance in this series 👇 #JCMS #AcademicPublishing #EuropeanStudies #UACES

Brexit did not simply weaken UK–EU cybersecurity cooperation! New research in JCMS shows how collaboration has persisted through informal networks, shared expertise, & communities of practice. Read open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #JCMS #UACES #Brexit #EUPolitics

All in this Together? Communities of Practice in UK–EU Cybersecurity Relations Post‐Brexit and Differentiated Re‐engagement

Whilst formative work on characterising UK-EU cybersecurity cooperation points to re-engagement rather than disengagement, we seek to take this as our starting point in order to build a more complex ...

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For anyone Dutch-speaking who's interested in #Brexit and the supposed reset in EU-UK relations, here's my two cents for @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social's 'Summer Series' on how the #TCA could be used to promote progressive causes on both sides of the Channel.

Samenleving & Politiek@sampolmaandblad.bsky.social · 12mo ago

De handelsrelatie tussen EU en VK zit vast in kleine aanpassingen en lage ambities, ziet Gabriel Silles-Brügge. Toch zijn er kansen om samen een progressieve agenda te vormen, van klimaat tot arbeidsrechten. #Zomerreeks #MakeEuropeGreatAgain #Mega2025

Do you have a knack for creating engaging content and building online communities? UACES is seeking a part-time Social Media and PR Assistant with a focus on journals. The deadline to apply is Wednesday 6 August 2025. More information on our website: www.uaces.org/social-media... #UACES #job

An absolute pleasure to host @mcopelov.bsky.social for his insightful & provocative talk. Lots for EU Studies to learn from IPE! 🎙️A recording will be posted soon and the text 📝 of the lecture will appear next year in the pages of the journal. Thanks also to @ces-europe.bsky.social for hosting!

Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS)@jcms-eu.bsky.social · last yr.

At last week’s #JCMS Annual Lecture 2025, @mcopelov.bsky.social offered a powerful take on Europe’s role in a shifting world. Thank you to Prof. Copelovitch for his insight, to @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social for the intro, and to all who joined us for the @ces-europe.bsky.social conference.

🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨 Volume 63, Issue 4 of JCMS is out now! 🌍 Explore key debates on EU funding, Euroscepticism, foreign policy and more. Edited by @cardwellpj.bsky.social, @rguerrina.bsky.social, and @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social 📚 Read the new issue here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965...

✍️ If you are a scholar working in EU Studies and comparative regionalism, please do send us your best work! We're a multi-disciplinary, methodologically and theoretically pluralist journal open to the full range of rigorous work in our scope. We also publish policy commentaries.

Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS)@jcms-eu.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking to publish your research on the #EuropeanUnion and comparative regionalism? 🌍 Join leading scholars from around the world in contributing to JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. 📚 Learn more about how to submit your next article at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

"[The] UK-US trade deal illustrates what has become a common feature of contemporary trade politics. Economic considerations have given way to the desire to perform sovereignty for its own sake." Tony Heron, @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social & Darrin McDonald on trade deals👇

What’s happened to ‘Global Britain’? - UK in a changing Europe

Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge, and Darrin McDonald argue that trade deals agreed by the UK government since Brexit are limited in their...

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Check out this blog post on the death of 'Global Britain', which draws on our open access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social on the performance of trade policy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

UK in a Changing Europe@ukandeu.bsky.social · last yr.

"[The] UK-US trade deal illustrates what has become a common feature of contemporary trade politics. Economic considerations have given way to the desire to perform sovereignty for its own sake." Tony Heron, @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social & Darrin McDonald on trade deals👇 ukandeu.ac.uk/whats-happen...

JCMS is pleased to announce that from 2027, there will be two special issues published per year. 📚 We’re currently inviting proposals for the Spring and Autumn 2027 Special Issues. For more details, see the full call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

New JCMS Issue! 🚨 Editors @cardwellpj.bsky.social, @rguerrina.bsky.social and @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social have curated another insightful issue exploring new perspectives on European Studies. Congrats to all the authors for their dedication to the field! 📚 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965...

🚨 New #OpenAccess publication in @ripejournal.bsky.social, together with Tony Heron (York) and Darrin McDonald (Leeds Beckett). Do have a read by clicking on the link below! ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Performing trade: ‘Global Britain’ and the UK’s post-Brexit free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand

Why did the United Kingdom (UK) prioritise post-Brexit free trade agreements (FTAs) with Australia and New Zealand, despite the almost negligible economic benefits on offer? We address this puzzle ...

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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

🚨 New #OpenAccess publication in @ripejournal.bsky.social, together with Tony Heron (York) and Darrin McDonald (Leeds Beckett). Do have a read by clicking on the link below! ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Performing trade: ‘Global Britain’ and the UK’s post-Brexit free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand

Why did the United Kingdom (UK) prioritise post-Brexit free trade agreements (FTAs) with Australia and New Zealand, despite the almost negligible economic benefits on offer? We address this puzzle ...

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New Fellow @tonihaastrup.bsky.social is Chair in Global Politics at official-uom.bsky.social! Her research explores power hierarchies in global politics & encompasses a range of topics within international studies incl. feminist foreign policies & global inequalities. acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...

Beyond delighted to be elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences! Truly an honour, and I look forward to supporting the work of the Academy. Congratulations too to my @jcms-eu.bsky.social co-editors @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social @rguerrina.bsky.social & UACES chair @tonihaastrup.bsky.social

Academy of Social Sciences@acadsocsciences.bsky.social · last yr.

New Fellow @cardwellpj.bsky.social is Professor of Law at kingscollegelondon.bsky.social! His research encompasses EU external relations & migration and he has contributed evidence to the UK & Canadian Parliaments on EU law, migration & sanctions. See the full list ➡️ acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...

Congratulations to: - Professor Christopher Hill - Professor @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social - Professor Helena Farrand Carrapico - Professor @cardwellpj.bsky.social - Professor @rguerrina.bsky.social - Professor @tonihaastrup.bsky.social Who have been awarded @acadsocsciences.bsky.social Fellowships!

It is an absolutely privilege to be joining the Academy of Social Sciences, which does such important work to promote these disciplines at a time where they face really challenging times. It is doubly rewarding to be joining at the same time as my fellow @jcms-eu.bsky.social editors.

Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS)@jcms-eu.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to our editors – @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social, @cardwellpj.bsky.social, and @rguerrina.bsky.social – for their election to @acadsocsciences.bsky.social! 🎉 Their distinguished contributions to the social sciences and European Studies continue to inspire. 🔗 acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...

These consultancies remind me of Cornish wreckers in the c18th, luring ships onto the rocks. Unis think they can see a lighthouse with harbour, but ooh no it isn't. They thought they were being sold safety, but in fact they've been handed a doomsday device. And they don't even know it! (3/3) /END

By loading all the functions on the centre, you increase the data stress there to intolerable levels, and it collapses. You also ramp up costs that the thinner and thinner 'lower' offer cannot meet. You do quality and reputational harm that is likely impossible to repair. (2/2)

One underreported facet of the Great University Crisis is the contribution of a small number of consultancy firms who recommend: *Centralise functions *Cut small courses *Reduce student options *Abolish loads of joint awards *Chop staff headcount This is *exactly* what you must not do. (1/3)

It's really saddening to have to post this about my own institution, but the University of Bristol is planning to embark on a cost-cutting exercise that threatens the viability of scholarship in the arts, humanities and social sciences: www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

'The University of Bristol has embarked on a path like a death spiral'

UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus

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Of course. That's how the Cost Allocation Fallacy works. An error so basic an A-Level Business Studies student would write about it in an exercise.

The university death spiral is everywhere, and for everyone: they're all just on a convoy into the same black hole. Oxbridge, LSE and Imperial excepted, they must all *necessarily and inevitably* end up crushed to the size of an Oxo cube if we go on like this. www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

'The University of Bristol has embarked on a path like a death spiral'

UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus

bristol247.com

It's really saddening to have to post this about my own institution, but the University of Bristol is planning to embark on a cost-cutting exercise that threatens the viability of scholarship in the arts, humanities and social sciences: www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

'The University of Bristol has embarked on a path like a death spiral'

UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus

bristol247.com

It's a real pleasure for us at @jcms-eu.bsky.social to be publishing @maxkoch.bsky.social's incisive wake up call for scholars of and practitioners within the EU policymaking sphere. And if you publish on #postgrowth and #socio-ecological transitions in an EU context, do send us your manuscripts!

Max Koch@maxkoch.bsky.social · last yr.

I delivered the last @jcms-eu.bsky.social annual lecture, a arguing that #Europe needs to enter the #postgrowth era to come to grips with the #social-ecological crisis and its colonial legacy. I also outline a #sustainable #welfare deal for the EU #degrowth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

At #ISA2025? Join us today, Monday 3 March, @1.45pm for this panel on knowledge production in global politics!

Gabriel Siles-Brügge@gabrielsilesb.bsky.social · last yr.

At #ISA2025 and interested in the epistemic politics shaping the #trade/#health governance nexus ⛴️⚕️, quantification and the global governance of #poverty 🔢, or civil society participation in the governance of #AI 🧠🖥️? Come to our panel tomorrow! @justynabandola.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social

🚨 New Issue Alert 🚨 The latest #JCMS (Vol. 63, Issue 2) is out now! 🌍 Featuring research on: 🔻 European #integration & #Euroscepticism 🔻 #EU crisis response & institutional change 🔻 Governance, technocracy & legitimacy Read more ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965...

At #ISA2025 and interested in the epistemic politics shaping the #trade/#health governance nexus ⛴️⚕️, quantification and the global governance of #poverty 🔢, or civil society participation in the governance of #AI 🧠🖥️? Come to our panel tomorrow! @justynabandola.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social