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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 14/04/2026

Last week at the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions, I had the pleasure of organizing a workshop on LLMs w/ Lisa Lechner. I am grateful to all presenters and the rich discussions on LLMs, political science, and academic practice. More details on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/markus... #ecprjs26

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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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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 13/12/2023

That's what it looks like, yes. Thanks for your efforts, btw!

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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 13/12/2023

with 3rd countries through these trade agreements – transforming it into a truly global political actor one agreement at a time. Substantively, the Commission included an ever greater number of WTO-extra (WTO-X) issues going beyond issues tackled at the multilateral WTO+ level. (4/7)

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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 13/12/2023

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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 13/12/2023

Happy my book titled “EU Trade Agreements and European Integration: Commission Autonomy or Council Control?” came out in the UACES Contemporary European Studies series (Routledge). Introduction here: cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814… 🧵 (1/7)

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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 13/12/2023

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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 13/12/2023

Table titled "Selected WTO+ and WTO-X provisions included in EU bilateral trade agreements". The table has chiefly two columns. The first column lists so-called WTO-plus issues, which are commitments going back to the WTO and merely adding additional obligations to them, such as in the field of tariffs for industrial goods or countervailing measures. The second column lists WTO-plus issues, which mean provision in EU trade agreements going beyond anything regulated at the WTO-level, such as in the area of competition policy or human rights. Information is based on an article published by Horn, Mavroidis, and Sapir in 2010.

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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 13/12/2023

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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 11/12/2023

We then show how political actors position themselves for or against EU actions and/or their domestic government. We find that GOVERNING parties, rather than blaming "Brussels" for illegitimate interventions as we expected, spend considerable effort defending their own actions. (3/7)

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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 11/12/2023

We study how EU actions "hit the ground" and show that public attention only spiked in 2020, when democratic backsliding was linked to budgetary transfers. This bears out the critical voices regarding the EU’s reliance on soft tools until 2020, as expressed by @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social (2/7)

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Markus Gastinger @markus-gastinger.eu · 11/12/2023

🚨Publication alert🚨 New article in @jeppjournal.bsky.social with Arndt Wonka and Michael Blauberger on democratic backsliding in Poland and Hungary, studying public debates in Gazeta Wyborcza and Index/Telex.hu. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.108… Short 🧵 (1/7)

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