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Lisa Dellmuth @lisadellmuth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

📣 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

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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.

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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

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Is America contagious?

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

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Tom Hunter @tommccraehunter.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

(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?

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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!

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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.

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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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Tom Hunter @tommccraehunter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

(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

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Robin Huguenot-Noël @rhuguenotnoel.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

DISINTEGRATION dataset #4: IOParlspeech contains 600k+ statements on IOs in parliamentary debates (1990–2018) across AT, CA, DE, NZ, UK & US. Drawn from Parlspeech V2 & legislative corpora, with validated IO mentions + rich metadata. dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

DISINTEGRATION dataset #3: The Nationalist Party Discourse dataset tracks how nationalist/EU-skeptic parties in 10 EU states talked about the EU during the Brexit decade (2012–2021). It codes 300+ media statements for tone, intensity & type of EU critique. www.swissubase.ch/de/catalogue...

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Nationalist Party Discourse

The Nationalist Party Discourse Dataset provides data on nationalist party communication across European countries between 2012 and 2021, hand-coded from a EU/Brexit news corpus. It captures the disco...

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

DISINTEGRATION data feature #2: The Swiss Panel Survey tracks EU attitudes, CH-EU relations & intl cooperation over 6 waves (2019–2025)—spanning Brexit, COVID & Ukraine. Rich vote intention data on key referendums; weighted for representativeness. doi.org/10.48573/enm...

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DISINTEGRATION: Swiss Panel Survey: Public opinion on Switzerland’s relations with Europe and the World, 2019-2022

The years between 2019 and 2022 have been a crucial period for Swiss politics, a period that has redefined the country’s role in world politics and, in particular, its relationship with the European U...

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

DISINTEGRATION data feature #1: A 6-wave EU-wide panel survey (2017–2019) of 10,000+ respondents per wave across all 28 member states. Tracks EU attitudes, Brexit perceptions & political views—country-level analyses possible for FR, DE, IT, PL, ES & UK. doi.org/10.48573/4bj...

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DISINTEGRATION: Tracking Europeans' opinions of Brexit and the EU: An EU-wide, six wave cross-sectional survey, 2017–2019

Brexit marked a turning point in EU history. For the first time an EU member state left the EU, leading to concerns about the stability of the EU as a whole. Indeed, Brexit carried significant spillov...

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

DISINTEGRATION publ #14: How do international institutions respond to unilateral challenges like non-compliance or withdrawal? @stefwalter.bsky.social & Nicole Plotke-Scherly develop a framework showing how IOs balance cooperation losses vs. contagion risks. doi.org/10.1093/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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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

DISINTEGRATION #10: How did parties in the EU react to Brexit? Analyzing parliamentary statements, @tommccraehunter.bsky.social finds that after the referendum, Eurosceptic challengers moderated their tone, while mainstream parties ramped up pro-EU rhetoric. No domino effect doi.org/10.1080/1350...

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Disintegration and party competition: evidence from parliamentary speeches on Brexit

How do political parties in the European Union (EU) react to disintegration bids from a member state? This question is important, as scholars have argued that framing by elites (particularly Eurosc...

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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...

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

DISINTEGRATION publication #7 @giorgiomalet.bsky.social shows that French rejection of the EU constitution in the 2005 referendum increased public opposition to the Constitution abroad, an example of cross-national social influence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

DISINTEGRATION publ #6 @jurado.bsky.social , @sandraleon.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social explore how voters want their govs to respond when another country withdraws from an IO. Willingness to compromise depends on exposure to the costs and benefits of accommodation. doi.org/10.1017/S002...

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Brexit Dilemmas: Shaping Postwithdrawal Relations with a Leaving State | International Organization | Cambridge Core

Brexit Dilemmas: Shaping Postwithdrawal Relations with a Leaving State - Volume 76 Issue 2

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

DISINTEGRATION publication #5: @stefwalter.bsky.social analyzes how voter-endorsed attempts to withdraw from IOs reverberate abroad. With original survey data from EU-27 Europeans and Swiss voters, she finds both encouragement and deterrence effects. doi.org/10.1177/0010...

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

DISINTEGRATION publication #4: @stefwalter.bsky.social reviews the globalization backlash. She shows that the backlash is not associated with large swings in public opinion against globalization but is rather a result of its politicization by skeptical actors doi.org/10.1146/annu...

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The Backlash Against Globalization | Annual Reviews

In recent years, the world has seen a rising backlash against globalization. This article reviews the nature, causes, and consequences of the globalization backlash. It shows that, contrary to a popul...

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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:

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 30/04/2025

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)

The globalization backlash manifests itself in electoral successes of globalization-skeptic parties; in a more negative tone in partisan discourse about globalization; and in an increase in policies designed to stop or curtail economic, political, and/or sociocultural globalization. However, contrary to the popular narrative, the globalization backlash is not driven by a large swing in public opinion against globalization. Rather, existing antiglobalization attitudes have been politicized and become more politically consequential.

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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 👇

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Charlotte Grynberg, @stefwalter.bsky.social and Fabio Wasserfallen show that pro-Brexit voters expected the EU largely accommodate the UK post-Brexit. Despite becoming more disillusioned over the course of negotiations, however, they still supported Brexit. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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!

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Thanks for following us along the way! It has been quite a ride We believe and hope that DISINTEGRATION’s insights will contribute to a better understanding of the challenges to international cooperation that continue to emerge. 20/20

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

What’s next? We still have a lot of work in progress that we will complete in the coming months. And @stefwalter.bsky.social and @lisadellmuth.bsky.social are working on a special issue project that explores the accommodation dilemma in a wide variety of contexts – we’ll keep posting news.

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Huge thanks also go to DISINTEGRATION’s stellar advisory board: Tanja Börzel, @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @jonastallberg.bsky.social and @dustintingley.bsky.social gave feedback, reflection, new ideas and most of all a lot of encouragement to the project. Thank you so much for everything! 18/20

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

They led the different work packages, brought their expertise and ideas to the project, and – most important – brought the project to life with their expertise in areas such as food, biking, hiking etc. They are the heart of DISINTEGRATION.

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

All of this has only been possible because DISINTEGRATION allowed the collaboration of a wonderful group of people. (and of course thanks to the @erc.europa.eu, who made all of this possible) 16/20

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

One of the achievements we are most proud of is that we have contributed to building the community of scholars interested in the contestation of international cooperation more broadly. DISINTEGRATION organized six workshops bringing together scholars from diverse subfields. 15/20

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

We have collected a lot of data in the course of the DISINTEGRATION project, most of which is available publicly in various repositories. In the coming weeks, we will post more information on each dataset. 13/20

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

… and has resulted in several review pieces about the state of the art on the contestation and politicization of international cooperation broadly defined. 12/20

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Further research has explored elite discourse about the international organizations… 11/20

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

3. What shapes governments responses to non-cooperation? The trade-off between maintaining cooperation gains and minimizing contagion risks also responses to referendum-endorsed challenges. Cases in which govs/IOs face a pronounced accommodation dilemma are most difficult to resolve. 10/20

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

2. How do voters want governments to respond to unilateral non-cooperative challenges? Overall, voters tend to prefer non-accommodation to accommodation. But the extent of their support for non-accommodation is shaped by contagion concerns and extent of cooperation gains they risk losing. 9/20

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ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

1. Are contagion concerns warranted? Political contagion risks are real, both in public opinion, and in terms of public discourse. We document both encouragement and deterrence effects and show that IO’s responses influence whether encouragement or deterrence dominates. 8/20

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