Online first: our Forum on Learning from the Russo-Ukrainian War in @coco-journal.bsky.social. My contribution reflects on learning as hegemonic struggle & weaknesses of the EU's liberal project. Thanks to Y Kurnyshova & A Makarychev for bringing us together! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Forum: Learning from the Russo-Ukrainian War: Normative lessons in unnormative times - Yuliia Kurnyshova, Andrey Makarychev, Thomas Diez, Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz, Aliaksei Kazharski, Shota Kakaba...

This Forum discusses how different international actors learn different lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and how the logics discernible behind these l...

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I will be in Tartu next week to reflect on the normative, political and institutional dilemmas that haunt the development of EU security and defence policy - join if you are interested! skytte.ut.ee/en/event/sky...

#SkytteTalks with Thomas Diez: “The Three Dilemmas of European Defence”

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A world with #international #law is by no means perfect. But a world in which those who can do ignore international law is even worse. I am grateful to colleagues for initiating this open letter to the German government. verfassungsblog.de/stellungnahm...

Stellungnahme zur deutschen Außenpolitik im Zuge der Angriffe der USA und Israels auf den Iran

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Achievements of #US #Israel war so far: Hundreds killed. Millions displaced. World economy in disarray. Iran still able to attack. No revolution in sight. International law ridiculed. @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social strategy at its best. #madmen

Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... @univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social @econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social

The #populist #right is a master of #flipsiding established #concepts. Michal Krzyzanowski, Natalia Krzyzanowska, @jensrydgren.bsky.social have edited a special issue with pieces analysing this practice, including my analysis of double flipsiding of #security www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...

Social Semiotics

Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right. Volume 36, Issue 1 of Social Semiotics

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Our new special issue is now published! "Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right" www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...

Social Semiotics

Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right. Volume 36, Issue 1 of Social Semiotics

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I see many people raving about @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social speech in Davos. It was no doubt a good one, but a reference to the #EU #GlobalStrategy where @nathalietocci.bsky.social introduced #PrincipledPragmatism as a core concept would have been appropriate. #Davos #WEC

I am not sure why the #German #government is even seriously considering #Trump Peace Board plan. At least it's honest: crown the king, pay the money. And how the board in its composition is supposed to be more effective than the #UN, only Trump knows. #internationalorder #internationalorganisation

Hopefully of interest! @hugoekstrom.bsky.social @stenhansson.bsky.social @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social @thomasdiez.bsky.social @bolandeira.bsky.social @critdiscstuds.bsky.social @kurtsengul.bsky.social @journolinguist.bsky.social @discodiscourse.bsky.social @ylvahilda.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social

mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Now published: Joint intro paper w. N.Krzyzanowska & J.Rydgren laying out key ideas of our Social Semiotics SI on “Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Hopefully of interest! @hugoekstrom.bsky.social @stenhansson.bsky.social @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social @thomasdiez.bsky.social @bolandeira.bsky.social @critdiscstuds.bsky.social @kurtsengul.bsky.social @journolinguist.bsky.social @discodiscourse.bsky.social @ylvahilda.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social

mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social@mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Now published: Our analytical paper on strategic, far-right/illiberal reversal of meanings of key social & political concepts: “We put family at the centre of social life”: On Conceptual flipsiding of the “family” in discursive-political strategies of PL populist far-right" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

The statement by #EUHR @kajakallas.bsky.social on the US attack on #Venezuela is appalling. An attack on another country, whether by #Putin or #Trump, without #UNSC legitimisation is a gross violation of int'l law & needs clear condemnation, independent of what you think about the attacked regime.

Still need some reading for the winter break? Check out my latest piece on the "double flipsiding" of the #security #discourse out now as online first in a special issue of Social Semiotics edited by Michal Krzyzanowski, Natalia Krzyzanowska and Jens Rydgen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Double flipsiding: the liberalisation and illiberalisation of “Security”

This article examines the evolving discourse of security through the lens of “conceptual flipsiding.” Focusing on the notion of security as a “discursive nodal point,” the paper traces two major di...

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Congratulations to #Erhürman and all my Turkish #Cypriot friends! Let's look to the future and see whether #Christodoulides is ready to dance

missed the plenary, made the point. @thomasdiez.bsky.social at #EWIS2025 on why international society needs to be studied from below — through the everyday, not just diplomacy. read more in the post ↓ #EverydayIR #EISA #InternationalStudies

War gerade in einem #ICE mit der Aufschrift "Wir rollen für #Europa". Oder so. Das ist doppelt falsch. In #Deutschland rollt man nicht mehr für Europa, sondern für #Grenzkontrollen. Und am Ende rollte der Zug gar nicht. Technischer Defekt an einer Tür. Branding allein nutzt halt auch nichts.

www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro... The main German news programme asks whether #Schengen is dead because #Poland is introducing border controls on Monday. But it's #Germany who will have killed it.

Eine von vielen Fragen derzeit an Julia Klöckner: hätten Sie @cansinkoektuerk.bsky.social auch dann des Saales verwiesen, wenn sie ein T-Shirt mit "Ukraine"-Aufschrift getragen hätte? Oder "Israel"? @bundestag.de

🚨Publication alert🚨: My new article 'Towards Orchestrating Normative Power in the Climate Crisis' is now available (OA). It's part of a SI by Ian Manners on 'Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis' #EU #NormativePower #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Towards orchestrating normative power in the climate crisis - Franziskus von Lucke, 2025

The European Union has long presented itself as a key actor when it comes to tackling the climate crisis and has been called a climate leader or ‘green normativ...

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Friedensforscher sehen USA als "Unsicherheitsfaktor" #Friedensgutachten

Friedensforscher sehen USA als "Unsicherheitsfaktor"

Im Friedensgutachten 2025 plädieren Experten für mehr Unabhängigkeit in der europäischen Verteidigung.

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Wir haben einen Innenminister, der nicht bereit ist Rechtsstaatlichkeit zu akzeptieren und - selbst nach einer Gerichtsentscheidung - rechtsstaatlich zu handeln ... Der Weg ist höchst gefährlich. www.tagesschau.de/inland/zurue...

Trotz Gerichtsentscheidung: Dobrindt hält an Zurückweisungen fest

Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt hält trotz einer Gerichtsentscheidung an Zurückweisungen von Asylsuchenden an den Grenzen fest. Das Gericht habe eine Einzelfallentscheidung getroffen und verlange nur nac...

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New book on #infrastructure and #international_relations out now - including my reflections on how infrastructural development has enabled (re)formations of #international_society. Check it out! @iratut.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Transnational Infrastructures and the Transformation of Global Orders

This book offers a multidisciplinary insight into the significance of infrastructural change for global orders.

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Skytte prize winners speak out www.ft.com/content/939b...

Letter: Prize-winning political scientists speak out

From Francis Fukuyama and others

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Brave letter from three international students at Harvard on Trump’s assault on the university and the broader implications www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up.

Three student leaders on Trump’s attempts to throw them out of the country.

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Can someone in the #EU or in the government of my country please find clear words of condemnation of what the #US #government is doing to its universities - and to the world? Imagine #Putin or #Erdoğan would be acting similarly. #standbyharvard @kajakallas.bsky.social @larsklingbeil.bsky.social

It was fun talking about infrastructures and global security at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Thanks for the invitation and curious questions and comments! @marcokrueger.bsky.social @kawezel.bsky.social @katharinakrause.bsky.social @thomasdiez.bsky.social

Paul Wohlfahrt 🇪🇺@wohlfahrtp.bsky.social · last yr.

Raum wird wieder politischer und gewinnt an Relevanz im Diskurs. Spannender Einblick in die Bedeutung von Bedeutung von Infrastruktur für Sicherheit von @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social

Amidst all the awfulness, it’s good to see two new books published on my Configurations series!

Sad news: Joe Nye has passed away. www.belfercenter.org/collection/r...

Remembering Joseph S. Nye

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Are secessionist entities in the post-Soviet space mere puppets in the hands of the Kremlin or do they have bargaining power of their own? Our latest PhD, Maximilian Ohle, argues the latter, even if this power is highly constrained. #Abkhazia #Transnistria @unituebingen.bsky.social

Centre for International Relations/Peace and Conflict Research@iratut.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Maximilian Ohle on successfully defending his PhD Thesis! 🎉