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Gustav Meibauer

@meibauir.bsky.social
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Asst Prof in International Relations, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (@radboudpol.bsky.social) 🇳🇱; no-fly zones; IR theory, foreign policy, security, intervention, populism, political communication; he/him

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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
📢 Publication Alert 📢 New article out in International Studies Review with @panosvasileiadis.bsky.social: “Strategies of Deception in International Relations.” Open access here 👉 doi.org/10.1093/isr/... 1/
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Strategies of Deception in International Relations
Abstract. This article reconceptualizes deception as a deliberate state strategy. Based on extant scholarship from political science, philosophy and lingui
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Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann @gloefflmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Normen- und Governance Forschung quasi der VW Golf der deutschen Politikwissenschaft. @meibauir.bsky.social und ich fahren dafür morgen in Würzburg bei der DVPW in der schnittigen Corvette der Security Studies vor.
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Landed in Lisbon for #EISAPEC26 - looking forward to great discussions with old friends and new. Holler if you're around & want to go for a coffee! Also, come check out our excellent #REALism section program, including two fabulous roundtables, one on theory/theorizing in IR & one on order/chaos.
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Audrey Alejandro and I have a new preprint online - check out "The Social in International Relations: Mapping IR Theory through Social Theory"! 👉 osf.io/preprints/so...
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Joshua Kertzer @jkertzer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🚨 Going up on eJobs later today: Harvard has an open-field tenure-track search this fall, with priority areas in American Politics, International Relations, Formal Theory, and Quantitative Methods. Feel free to reach out with any questions! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16668
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TENURE-TRACK PROFESSOR IN GOVERNMENT
The Department of Government seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Government. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2027. The tenure-track professor will be responsible for teaching ...
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🎉 Wheeee - "Strategies of Deception in International Relations" forthcoming in ISR, co-authored with the inimitable @panosvasileiadis.bsky.social 🎉
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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We are hiring a postdoc in Comparative Politics at JGU Mainz! Join our friendly and productive team, led by Armin Schäfer (@arminschaefer.bsky.social). • Full-time position • Five-year contract (!) • Start: from 1 October Apply by 22 August: stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/56328 Please share!
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Them: The giant steel monster right next to the children's playground isn't real. It can't hurt you. The monster:
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Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann @gloefflmann.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Seid ihr schon heiß wie Frittenfett auf die Neue Folge #DEFCON4? Dann seid ihr hier richtig. Wir diskutieren die Rückkehr der Geopolitik mit special Guest Star Gesine Weber. Konstruktivistische Hüte, realistische Brillen und kritische Stiefel (?), für alle was dabei! open.spotify.com/episode/27F9...
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Die Rückkehr der Geopolitik mit Gesine Weber
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Mampfi singt Arbeiter*innenlieder @therealmampfi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Geopolitik – Modewort oder echtes Analysewerkzeug? 🎙️ @gloefflmann.bsky.social, @meibauir.bsky.social und @malteriemann.bsky.social diskutieren mit Episodengästin @gesineweber.bsky.social, wer von der Rede über Geopolitik eigentlich profitiert. open.spotify.com/episode/27F9...
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Die Rückkehr der Geopolitik mit Gesine Weber
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🚨 Die #Geopolitik ist zurück (?!) - und mit ihr eine neue Folge DEFCON 4. 🚨 Zusammen mit @malteriemann.bsky.social @gloefflmann.bsky.social und Episodengästin @gesineweber.bsky.social diskutieren wir die "Geopolitik" von der Klassik bis zum Buzzword. Hört mal rein! open.spotify.com/episode/27F9...
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Die Rückkehr der Geopolitik mit Gesine Weber
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Mampfi singt Arbeiter*innenlieder @therealmampfi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Neue Folge 🎙️ Geopolitik ist in aller Munde – aber was meinen wir damit? Analysewerkzeug oder politisches Narrativ? @gloefflmann.bsky.social , @meibauir.bsky.social und @malteriemann.bsky.social mit Episodengästin @gesineweber.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/d...
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Die Rückkehr der Geopolitik mit Gesine Weber
Podcast-Folge · DefCon 4 - Der Podcast zur internationalen Politik · 30. Juli · 54 Min.
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opfuchs.gay @opfuchs.gay · 25/07/2026
Latest Spiegel update corroborates but does not confirm the white van detail, as well as the unclear status of the driver. A massive police operation is now in progress here in Berlin www.spiegel.de/panorama/csd...
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The true art of the deal is the deals we make and then immediately retract while throwing our staff under the bus along the way.
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Mampfi singt Arbeiter*innenlieder @therealmampfi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Ich verstehe Ihre Frage so, dass es in Deutschland 🇧🇪 Menschen gibt, die wünschen, dass wir die Wissenschaftler @gloefflmann.bsky.social, @meibauir.bsky.social, @malteriemann.bsky.social dazu mobilisieren, eine Podcast Folge aufzunehmen. Mir ist nicht bekannt, dass eine solche… 1/2
Das Logo von DefCon4
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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Wir suchen Verstärkung für die Greifswalder Politikwissenschaft! Die Stelle (E13, unbefristet) umfasst u.a. Lehraufgaben in der Politischen Theorie und Ideengeschichte. Bei Fragen gerne bei mir melden. t1p.de/3kgfv
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in - Politikwissenschaft 26/ES17
Stellenausschreibung - Institut für Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We're recruiting for a full professor in IR, with a preference for someone with 'a clear understanding of the current and future challenges to IR, especially in the domain of security, as well as a clear idea of how to take on these challenges in research, education and impact strategies'. 👇
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Department of Political Science, Radboud University Nijmegen @radboudpol.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🚨Departmental Newsletter - June '26 🚨
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Leroy Sané looks like one of these academics hired on "promise" ten years ago, then tenured on "potential", and since permanently very publicly applying but never quite getting way-too-large grants.
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מיידלבאס ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @pharisee.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
curaçao's football team is officially equal to brazil's
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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I have questions.
A man looking out of the window of his sleeper train, as it flies through the air somewhere to the east of Westminster Bridge, presumably moments before Portcullis House is destroyed in a bizarre flying sleeper train disaster. He seems unpeturbed by his imminent death.
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
We are hiring! Please share 👉 💡 2 PhD positions 🇳🇴 Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen 🗓️ 4 years 💶 Fully funded 👩‍🏫 25 % teaching ⏳ 11 August 2026 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Just like my newest article is also 95% done. The remaining 5% of writing will focus on setting up a structure, reading relevant literature, developing an argument, and testing it empirically.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
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Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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Johanna Rodehau-Noack @jrodehaun.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Wrote a thing on why buying into the “generative AI is inevitable so we need to stuff it into all crevices of higher ed” narrative is not only bad pedagogy, but bad Political Science. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Generative AI in the Political Science Classroom: Bringing Politics Back In
Large language models (LLMs) have disrupted higher education, prompting a wave of scholarship on generative AI in the Political Science classroom. This emerging literature largely converges in argu...
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
'Frontiers' are now inviting 'handling editors' for individual manuscripts instead of simply reviewers - what fresh unpaid hell is this?
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
🚨 DEFCON-4 UPDATE 🚨 Israel-Libanon und die sog. "Pufferzone" - jetzt als kurze Einschätzung von mir auf Spotify, Apple und co. open.spotify.com/episode/474z...
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Trump tut ja was er kann, aber wieder waren die Chinesen schneller. www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
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Modekonzern in China hat Konzernzentrale in Nazi-Optik
HLA ist einer der größten Modekonzerne Chinas. Für sein Hauptquartier hat sich das Unternehmen von den Nazis inspirieren lassen. Die F.A.Z. hat sich umgeschaut.
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A lot of questions raised by my KA$H bottles are already answered by my KA$H bottles.
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European Journal of International Security @ejisbisa.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🚨 NEW: "Why US–China relations have not escalated yet: Power rise, power transition, and perceptions of resolve" from Michiel Foulon and @meibauir.bsky.social. 📑👉 Read, in full, for free: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
When the child has to stay home sick but it's also ice cream weather. 🦖🍦
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'm quoted in this excellent @deutschewelle.dw.com analysis on the politics and law of buffer zones, in the context of Israel's incursion into South Lebanon - check it out here: www.dw.com/en/israel-in...
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Israel in Lebanon: Is the 'security buffer zone' legal?
Buffer zones occupy a grey area in international humanitarian law, as rules around them in contemporary warfare are not particularly clear.
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Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann @gloefflmann.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Wie ich die nächste Folge DEFCON 4 vorbereite:
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Kaum draußen, direkt geadelt. 😎
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🚨 Podcast Alert - Raise to DEFCON-4 🚨 In der Premierenfolge unseres neuen Podcasts diskutieren @gloefflmann.bsky.social @frankstengel.com @malteriemann.bsky.social und ich den Iran-Krieg, Trump, und das Siechtum der 🇺🇸 Demokratie. Hört mal rein: 👉 open.spotify.com/show/48hA7TG...
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michielfoulon.bsky.social @michielfoulon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
📣 My new publication with @GustavMeibauer is now out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social “Why US-China relations have not escalated yet: Power rise, power transition, and perceptions of resolve" It’s open access: doi.org/10.1017/eis.... @meibauir.bsky.social (1/4)
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Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🚨Publication Alert 🚨 New @ejisbisa.bsky.social article with @michielfoulon.bsky.social: 👉 'Why US–China relations have not escalated yet: Power rise, power transition, and perceptions of resolve'. 👈 We grapple with power transitions & impending (or not) 🇺🇸/🇨🇳 war. 📖 (OA): doi.org/10.1017/eis....
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Why US–China relations have not escalated yet: Power rise, power transition, and perceptions of resolve | European Journal of International Security | Cambridge Core
Why US–China relations have not escalated yet: Power rise, power transition, and perceptions of resolve
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🚨 Job Alert: AsstProf International Peace & Security in Amsterdam (VUA)🚨 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...
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Vacancy — Assistant Professor (UD) in Political Science (international peace and security)
Are you a political scientist with an engaging research agenda and a strong profile in international peace and security? Then, please apply at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).
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Pasquinel 🦇🎃👻 @pasquinel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The best news for all of Europe in a long time ☺️ Thank you Hungarians
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Please don’t tell the Americans that this election was not actually about JD Vance. They need it so bad.
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Ah yes. My war has created a lot of problems to be solved by my war. This is the kinetic version of that T-shirt meme.
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I'm proud to report that one week before term start my email inbox to-do folder now only has four remaining tasks, only two of which are outstanding reviews, neither of which is overdue. Please clap.
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Hightechnical? Flytechnical?
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 27/03/2026
🚨Job alert🚨 We are looking for two lecturers/assistant professors in environmental politics (permanent!) www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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ED13504 Lecturer in Environmental Politics - Jobs at Bath
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
German IB won't know what hit 'em.
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This is what happens if you ignore domestic politics in explanation. It is also maps fairly precisely onto the argument in my recent @risjnl.bsky.social article, for what it's worth: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Neoclassical realist theory of populist foreign policy | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Neoclassical realist theory of populist foreign policy
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Het is weer tijd voor de 🇳🇱 cursus Nederlands. 🇳🇱 Nu we oefenen met ‘een afspraak maken’, realiseer ik me dat het misschien een beetje triest is dat mijn standaardantwoord altijd ‘ik kan niet, ik moet werken’ is.
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Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Ummm.
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