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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@johanadriaensen.bsky.social, Sophie Vanhoonacker & Igor Sarkissian: The effect of geopoliticisation on the EU’s polity: exploring institutional power shifts 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Johan Adriaensen @johanadriaensen.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Did the same. Now to explain the kids... Guess it is never too early to start with civics education?

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Does the EU's ambition to become a geopolitical actor change the EU itself? 🌍 @johanadriaensen.bsky.social, Sophie Vanhoonacker & Igor Sarkissian propose a framework to analyse how adaptive pressures on the EU's institutional setup and sketch where these changes are already visible. 👇

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The effect of geopoliticisation on the EU’s polity: exploring institutional power shifts

The aspiration of the EU to pursue a geopolitical agenda has raised both interest and scepticism within the academic and policy community. The ability to adopt and implement an ambitious geopolitic...

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Johan Adriaensen @johanadriaensen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Or -more likely- a mixture of them all. The challenge is to avoid being dragged into the same flawed game that the Trump administration is playing despite our moral indignation urging us to retaliate in-kind. (6/6)

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Johan Adriaensen @johanadriaensen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

(4) Engage in what Daniel Kono called ‘optimal obfuscation’. This would imply leaving the reduced tariffs (and the FTAs) in place, but re-erecting non-tariff barriers such as stopping certification, slow-rolling the processing of US goods in customs, …. ) which are more difficult to monitor. (5/6)

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Johan Adriaensen @johanadriaensen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

(3) retaliate and forget the trade agreement existed. This can act as a starting point for negotiations. For monist systems where international agreements typically supersede domestic laws this may create a legal challenge. (4/6)

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Johan Adriaensen @johanadriaensen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

(2) the partner can terminate the agreement. FTA’s do foresee a termination procedure. If this is followed, it has a delayed impact (often 180 days). This might be preferred over an immediate termination to signal an adherence to the rule-based order and limit the shock to businesses, (3/6)

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Johan Adriaensen @johanadriaensen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

(1) Trading partners can file a complaint through the dispute settlement mechanism embedded in the FTA. A complaint at the WTO is also possible, but either option feels like reminding a raged berserker there are rules to economic warcraft. (2/6)

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Johan Adriaensen @johanadriaensen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

What is to happen to the US FTA’s after Recession Day? The US clearly violates its existing agreements, including those with long-standing allies like Israel, South-Korea, and Australia. So how can they respond? (thread). (1/6)

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Johan Adriaensen @johanadriaensen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It is actually the policy that comes closest to his interpretation of what a tariff is: a tax that exporters have to pay.

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Johan Adriaensen @johanadriaensen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Honestly? You'll find the same diversity in any other public administration. For BE(NL): Groenboek, witboek, (beleid)nota's, rapport, visie, strategie, ministerieel besluit, koninklijk besluit, beslissing, wet, ordonnantie, decreet, omzendbrieven, persbericht, leidraad, advies, overeenkomst, studie.

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Johan Adriaensen @johanadriaensen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Just for the optics alone, it would have been good for the EU and Ukraine to schedule a parallel meeting today to discuss how they see an end to the war. That way, when proper talks may start, there are two rivalling plans and the EU/Ukraine would not enter negotiations on the backfoot.

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Marine Bardou @marinebardou.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

🌍 Are you interested in international agreements negotiated by the EU? 🇪🇺 I am planning to submit a panel on the EU as a negotiator of international agreements at EUIA 2025 Panel abstract below ⬇ 📑 If you are interested, send me a paper abstract (300 words max) by 30/09! 📧 marine.bardou@uclouvain.be

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Dr Viviane Gravey @vgravey.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Yesterday was a big day - our book w. @christopherhuggins.bsky.social on #TeachingEuropeanUnionPolitics is out! 👍Fantastic contributors from across the continent+many disciplines 👍A textbook for teachers - helping us (re)think how we teach 👍actually affordable?! www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/tea...

cover of the book - sun hits European Union flags.

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Iskander De Bruycker @iskanderdebruycker.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

📣Call for Workshops! Join us in Maastricht for the Annual Political Science Workshops of the Low Countries, aka #Politicologenetmaal!🎉 📝 Info & submit: rb.gy/4vj6ji ⏰ Submission deadline: January 15, 2024 📆 Conference dates: June 13-14, 2024 @VPW_be @NKWP_NL

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Johan Adriaensen @johanadriaensen.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

"I kept lectures and discussions about the Middle East to a minimum because the student response had the potential to trigger more heat than light." Love the sentence. Also made me wonder whether our uneasiness to cover the issue in class has not given room for the extreme polarisation we see now.

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