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Christian Freudlsperger

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ETH Zurich | Assistant prof | EU politics

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Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
👏 We've been thrilled to welcome 2️⃣ new Assistant Professors this month! @dianebolet.bsky.social, working on the green backlash and the rise of the far right. Jonne Kamphorst, jointly affiliated with @cdsp-sciencespo.bsky.social, bringing expertise on democratic engagement & LLMs in social science.
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Frank Sauer @drfranksauer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Wenn deutsche Unis so weiterschlafen, haben wir AGI bevor auch nur eine Prüfungsordnung im KI-Zeitalter angekommen ist. @elvirarosert.bsky.social, Eva Herschinger und ich mit einem konstruktiven Vorschlag, wie man das Problem löst statt es nur zu bewundern. Danke an @taz.de - keine Paywall.
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Künstliche Intelligenz an Hochschulen: Universität radikal umdenken
Für den Umgang mit KI an Unis gibt nur einen Weg: Eine grundsätzliche Neugestaltung des universitären Lernens und Prüfens. Vier Ideen für eine Reform.
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Lucas Schramm @lucasschramm91.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🚨 new publication alert The European Union increasingly faces external pressures. Whilst external pressures always mattered for European integration and EU studies, this article holds that they are more consequential today than in the past.
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This text by @sophiabesch.bsky.social is well worth your time. Very good analysis, superbly written. carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
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The Greenland Episode Must Be a Lesson for Europe and NATO
They cannot return to the comforts of asymmetric reliance, dressed up as partnership.
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
@andreaseisl.bsky.social & @dzurstrassen.bsky.social on the EU's Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) Part of the Special Issue: European Integration in the Geopolitical Age by @lucasschramm91.bsky.social @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social. A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🌍The latest cleavage: the universalist divide @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social , @dpzollinger.bsky.social , @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @simonbornschier.bsky.social, and @lhaffert.bsky.social provide evidence from the 2024 European Election Study 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Daniel Naurin @dnaurin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
10 days left to apply for our section on judicial politics, legal mobilisation and empirical legal studies at ECPR SGEU in Catania, Sicily on July 1-3, 2026. @tommasopavone.bsky.social and I look forward to your paper/panel submission!
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Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝 We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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It is widely accepted in political science – and remarkably established in public discourse – that status anxieties fuel a far right backlash against progressive politics. This narrative suggests that right-wing conservatives perceive the status of women, racial, or sexual minorities as threatening. Using open-ended survey questions fielded in Germany, we show that women and minorities indeed figure in people’s perceptions of status hierarchies, but in very specific ways: First, overall, people still perceive status as largely socioeconomically determined. Second, sociocultural groups figure in perceptions of who is gaining/losing status, less so in perceptions of the top/bottom of society. Third, more than conservative voters, it is social progressives who mention women and minorities as “winners”. While on race/ethnicity, we find evidence for a backlash, on gender and sexuality we find more evidence for a progressive momentum. This matters for progressive politics today and for how we empirically study status concerns.
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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
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Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
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Tom Hunter @tommccraehunter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🚨 New(ish) Publication Alert! Delighted to see my article Credit Claiming in the EU @thejop.bsky.social I explore a classic question for accountability in Europe: when and why do govs claim credit for the work of the EU and shift blame onto Brussels to avoid responsibility? doi.org/10.1086/732970
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Credit Claiming in the European Union | The Journal of Politics: Vol 87, No 3
Incumbents in multilevel systems are assumed to exploit uncertainty of responsibility by claiming credit and shifting blame, yet little is known about when and how they engage in these rhetorical stra...
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DANILO DI MAURO @danilo-dimauro.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Just out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social online first..Hurry up free copies expiring in 50..49..48..47 ..😁 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/25KK9... Special thanks to @lucasschramm91.bsky.social and @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social guest editors of the Special Issue: European Integration in the Geopolitical Age
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War as external cause: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the theorising of European integration and EU politics, and the EU’s arduous formation in foreign and security policy
Russia’s war in Ukraine from February 2022 has had massive effects on Europe’s Union and its member states, prompting changes in policy, new policies, discussions of options and potential future tr...
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Hertie School @hertieschool.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.
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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 23/09/2025
Last Friday (Sept. 19), @andduer.bsky.social, @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social, @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social and I had the great pleasure of hosting an excellent workshop at @unisalzburg.bsky.social on how to use Large Language Models #LLMs to boost International Relations research. A short 🧵1/4
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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU? Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇 @bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.
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Bjørn Høyland (@bjornhoyland.bsky.social)
Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo. Interests: EU politics, comparative legislative politics, comparative European Politics & political data science.
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
📘64.4 Varieties of pro-Europeanism? 🇪🇺🤷‍♀️ @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social & M. Weinrich look at what impact party support for the #RedistributivePolity & #RegulatoryPolity across four European Parliament elections between 2009-2024 and finds cultural and economic influences Read more:
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Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union
Having long shied away from proactively politicizing issues of European integration, the past crisis decade has put generally pro-European mainstream parties under pressure to spell out more clearly…
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The EU is a market with 450 million people. There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities. Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
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Trump Wants Europe to Stop Regulating Big Tech. Will It Bend?
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Buket Buse Demirci, @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social, and Frank Schimmelfennig examine how the EU reacts to geopolitical pressures 👇 🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Last month, I had the honor of giving the @jcms-eu.bsky.social Annual Lecture at @ces-europe.bsky.social in Philadelphia. I spoke about the geopolitical uncertainty 🇪🇺 faces from 🇺🇸, 🇷🇺, & 🇨🇳, & how this poses 3 crises 🇪🇺 must respond to with more leadership & deeper integration. Summary/video/slides:
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JCMS/CES Annual Lecture: "Europe Adrift: The Future of the EU, the Global Economy, and World Order in an Era of Great Power Uncertainty"
Last month, I had the honor of delivering the Journal of Common Market Studies Annual Lecture at the Council for European Studies Conference in Philadelphia. The theme of the conference was “Legacies ...
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Christian Kreuder-Sonnen @ckreudersonnen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Together with my brilliant colleagues Stacie E Goddard, Ronald R Krebs, and Berthold Rittberger, we published a piece in #ForeignAffairsMagazine: "Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order"! www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order
A less legalistic system would help protect democracies.
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by ‪@sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter. In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section. I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.
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Chiara Terranova @cterranova.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Very happy to see our work published on @wepsocial.bsky.social! Together with @uwepuetter.bsky.social, we propose the concept of the EU core executive to explain how the Union responds to major cross-sectoral policy challenges like the Green Deal. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Here is what we find ⬇️
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The EU core executive and the Green Deal
The Green Deal has been one of the European Union’s (EU) boldest, cross-sectoral policy responses. Public administration scholarship suggests that such endeavours rely on coercion by pivotal execut...
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Lucas Guttenberg @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
It seems that the Commission will indeed propose one big fund to cover all existing structural funds and the CAP and to organise the payout from this fund via a single national plan That would mean a huge departure from how the EU budget and the MFF negotiations have worked so far. Here is why:
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Francesco Nicoli 🇪🇺 🎓 @francesconicoli.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Took months of work, but @aagilli.bsky.social and I are proud to bring you a paper that deals with the true elephant in the room: Should the EU equip itself with a nuclear deterrent, and if so, how? www.bruegel.org/working-pape...
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How can Europe’s nuclear deterrence trilemma be resolved?
Uncertainty over U.S. nuclear support is forcing Europe to choose between vulnerability, shared deterrence or nuclear proliferation
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚨 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. 🧵
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thrilled to share my new publication @epsrjournal.bsky.social! When we think of lobbying, we often picture big businesses or NGOs. But regional governments lobby, too! But what makes govts-as-lobbyists successful? I study intergovt lobbying success based on a multi-year data collection effort
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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
#jobs 🚨🚨🚨 4 postdocs in Münster: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5... I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - EU Forscher*in - (salary level E 13 TV-L, 100 %)
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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5
Book cover of the second edition of Foundations of European Politics A Comparative Approach
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Benjamin Faude @benjaminfaude.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Joseph Nye, who coined the term ‘soft power’, dies aged 88
Former dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government served in two US presidential administrations
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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Very much looking forward to this stellar event!
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Etienne Höra @etiennehoera.d-64.social · 08/04/2025
Wie reagiert die EU auf Trumps #Zölle? Sehr gute Zusammenfassung des gestrigen Gipfels von @fbermingham.bsky.social, ein paar Gedanken im 🧵:
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Timo Seidl @timoseidl.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🚨 Want to join me at the Technical University of Munich? I’m hiring a PhD student (100%) in the area of the political economy of technological change! 📅 Apply by 18 May | Start Date: July (flexible) 🔗 More info & how to apply: hfp.heyrecruit.de?page=job&id=... ❓Reach out if you have any questions
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PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change bei Hochschule für Politik München
The Professorship Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Timo Seidl) invites applications for a PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change
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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due: 2 May 2025 Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods
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martinmoland.bsky.social @martinmoland.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I have been fortunate enough to spend the last two days at @delorsberlin.bsky.social discussing EU competences and national control as a part of the “Reconfiguring Europe” program. Excited to see what colleagues like @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social and @anabobic.bsky.social are working on.
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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I don't know about you, but I am getting impatient waiting for the capitalists to save us. What happened to the whole "state as the managing committee of the bourgeoisie" thing? A political economy 🧵 1/
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
New article! Legitimizing climate action: citizens, experts, and the limits of representative democracy, by Lukas Paul Fesenfeld, @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social Lennart Kuntze, and @kariningold.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Abstract: Representative democracies, with their tendency toward skewed representation and the discounting of future costs, struggle to adopt ambitious climate policies. This opens space for additional legitimation channels, such as expert commissions and citizens’ assemblies. Through conjoint survey experiments in Germany and the US, we show that citizens support ambitious climate policies more when proposed by these institutions rather than the government. Germans favor proposals from both experts and citizens, while Americans prefer expert-backed policies, even when they involve higher carbon taxes. Our findings further suggest that expert commissions can foster greater acceptance of specific climate policies, such as support for low-carbon products and industries, among both left- and right-wing voters. However, neither expert commissions nor citizens’ assemblies reduce polarization on policies with more visible costs like carbon taxes. Additionally, semi-structured interviews and survey data from Germany provide further insights into legitimation channels. Combining representative, technocratic, and deliberative approaches appears promising for advancing legitimate and ambitious climate policies.
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ECFR @ecfr.eu · 02/04/2025
🚨 As President Trump prepares to announce new tariffs today, @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social 's recent publication, "Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion," offers timely insights into how Europe can respond to such economic pressures.
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Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion
Faced with an aggressive United States, Europe has more leverage than it realises. Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relations it has ways of retaliating…
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Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Support for EU membership is rising in Norway and Iceland, because “non-integrated, neutral states do not function as buffer zones between spheres of influence. To aggressive great powers with imperial mindsets, they appear as easy prey, inviting predatory behaviour.” euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
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Why it's time for Norway and Iceland to join EU
Iceland and Norway are deeply integrated into the EU’s internal market through the European Economic Area and the Schengen zone, yet formally outside the Union. Both have a history of EU candidacy. Bo...
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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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:
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Responding to Unilateral Challenges to International Institutions
Abstracts. How do international institutions respond to unilateral challenges by its member states, such as non-compliance, blocking of reforms, renegotiat
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Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Coalitions of the willing are back in vogue, with Macron hosting another summit tomorrow in Paris. Here’s a chart I made on forms of differentiated integration and political cooperation in Europe:
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Some of my reflections @theguardian.com today on what the US embrace of Russia means for the EU & how Germany can play a leading role. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The US embrace of Russia is an existential threat to the EU. Germany must step up to save it | Catherine De Vries
To counter the crisis caused by Trump, Friedrich Merz has little choice but to abandon decades of military and economic caution
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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
What does Trump's capitulation to Putin on Ukraine & his hostility to the EU mean for Europe's potential to develop as a security power? My 2021 article w/@rdanielkelemen.bsky.social on war, state building & the EU provides some potential answers.1/ bit.ly/3pq7gYr
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State-building and the European Union: Markets, War, and Europe's Uneven Political Development - R. Daniel Kelemen, Kathleen R. McNamara, 2022
The European Union’s institutional development is highly imbalanced. It has established robust legal authority and institutions, but it remains weak or impotent...
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
▶️ @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social examines the EU’s evolution into a ‘reinsurance polity’ 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.108…
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Journal of European Public Policy
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