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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The push towards an ever-closer has undermined democracy in Europe. We need to revive democracy at national level in a Europe of nation states.

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

For democracy to thrive, we need to reclaim liberal traditions, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, or so I argued in a discussion with Philip Manow and Eric Hendriks at the Danube Institute in Budapest 👇 youtu.be/eqi4TNiVPcE?...

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Europe’s Battle over the Meaning of Democracy

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Europe’s Battle over the Meaning of Democracy

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

No longer sure whether Ukraine’s membership in the EU is necessary, but I am even more convinced that it is impossible. 👇It’s depressing to watch Europe losing Ukraine but I don’t see how the process can be reversed.

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Happy to see my letter on Thomas Mann & Russia in @financialtimes.com. Sad to see his take on Russia vindicated. “Great space, much time” explains “the recklessness of these people”, argued Settembrini. “They are the nation that has time and can wait. We Europeans, we cannot.”

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Andreas Fulda @amfchina.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Wir kommen dem Kern des Problems näher. Stefan Auer kritisiert den Merkel-Ansatz mit Verweis auf “das Politische”. Er bezieht sich dabei auf Konzepte von Carl Schmitt, Max Weber und Hannah Arendt. Sehr lesenswert www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🔎 Nicole Scicluna examines the framing of "enlargement" in von der Leyen's speeches and in manifestos of European parties 💡She finds that enlargement is still mostly framed in terms of technical procedures 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The Good Lobby @thegoodlobby.wsocial.eu · 09/09/2025

🇪🇺 Is the EU sufficiently democratic? In a recent interview with Nicole Scicluna, assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University for the programme ‘Europe without borders?’, Prof. @alemanno.bsky.social, was asked about the democratic qualities of the European Union. 📺: bit.ly/42ffoyq

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

📖 New Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Why AI Won’t Save Your Writing The Brown University political economist talks irritation, PowerPoint & why the page is still the only place where real thinking happens. Read → catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-... 🧵

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Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Writing, Thinking, and Why AI Can’t Save You

Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Do you assign them Immanuel Kant? Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding, that’s the motto of the enlightenment (and a compelling reason to keep the AI away from teaching imo)

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

‘The project that was meant to unite Europe and bring the nations of Europe closer together, seems to be pushing them further apart from each other’, or so I argue in a conversation with Ralph Schoellhammer on @brusselssignal.bsky.social Thanks for the invite, Ralph youtu.be/pz56R-CWRnY?...

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European Disunion with Stefan Auer

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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European Disunion with Stefan Auer

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

“Auer’s European Disunion is an erudite personal essay about the state of the European Union by a teacher & thinker who has followed the European integration process for a long time…” shs.cairn.info/journal-poli...

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Stefan Auer, European Disunion. Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency, London, Hurst Publishing, 2022, 256 p.

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

“Reading Auer is sometimes pleasant, sometimes a little strenuous.” Grateful for this balanced review by Anja Thomas of my book in the latest issue of Politique Européenne

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Anna-Sophie Maass, PhD @annasophiemaass.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Many thanks to Knud-Erik Jørgensen, Tonny Brems Knudsen & Laura Landorff for inviting me to contribute to their edited book 'Europe's World' bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-world. My chapter assesses the EU's response to Russia's aggression and violence in Ukraine @brisunipress.bsky.social

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Europe’s World

Europe’s World - Policy Paradigms, Strategic Thinking and the Anti-Liberal Challenge; The EU’s international environment is increasingly characterized by power-politics, growing great-power rivalry an...

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

“Reading Auer is sometimes pleasant, sometimes a little strenuous.” Grateful for this balanced review by Anja Thomas of my book in the latest issue of Politique Européenne

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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Are secessionist entities in the post-Soviet space mere puppets in the hands of the Kremlin or do they have bargaining power of their own? Our latest PhD, Maximilian Ohle, argues the latter, even if this power is highly constrained. #Abkhazia #Transnistria @unituebingen.bsky.social

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Thrilled to see Nicole Scicluna’s and my own article about the necessity and impossibility of Ukraine’s membership in the EU being one of the most read outputs on @jcms-eu.bsky.social

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Thrilled to see Nicole Scicluna’s and my own article about the necessity and impossibility of Ukraine’s membership in the EU being one of the most read outputs on @jcms-eu.bsky.social

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

It’s been 3 years since its publication by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social so I am all the more grateful to the editors of the Czech Journal of International Relations for publishing a critical review article of my book, European Disunion. 🙏 @stredoevropan.bsky.social cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

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View of Stefan Auer: European Disunion: Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency. | Czech Journal of International Relations

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

‘European Disunion is distinct from the more academic works on the conflicts of sovereignty in the EU … [as it] skilfully integrates political theory, especially Carl Schmitt’s critique of liberal supranational projects, with a political analysis of recent events’🙏to Jana Vargovcikova for the review

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Our dilemma: what if Russia doesn’t collapse for another decade or longer? Is Europe strong enough to help Ukraine to repel the invasion and deter Putin?

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Our dilemma: what if Russia doesn’t collapse for another decade or longer? Is Europe strong enough to help Ukraine to repel the invasion and deter Putin?

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Now with a blog by N. Scicluna: “Would-be Russian tourists are not an obvious target for sympathy. But putting aside the substance of the dispute, the larger issue is that of creeping member state unilateralism and the Commission’s permissiveness towards it.” jcms.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/03/26/e...

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Enemy at the gates? Member state unilateralism and Commission tacit toleration in the treatment of Russian nationals at EU borders

by Dr Nicole Scicluna (Hong Kong Baptist University) As we pass the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU continues to deal

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Ben Tonra @bentonra.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Been making this point too to academic colleagues traveling to the US - if you are anxious fly via Dublin or Shannon both with US immigration preclearance. Your US fight then lands as domestic.

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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Enemy at the gates? Member state unilateralism and Commission tacit toleration in the treatment of Russian nationals at EU borders

by Dr Nicole Scicluna (Hong Kong Baptist University) As we pass the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU continues to deal

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Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) @jcms-eu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

🌟 Scholar Spotlight: Peter J. Verovšek 🌟 @pjv.bsky.social examines how generational shifts shape European integration, explaining why progress has stalled and what the future may hold. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“Sardaryan, Dean of the School of Governance and Politics at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, stressed that the long-term outlook is very positive for Russia, since the United States under Trump has pleasingly abandoned the principles of international law”

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Andreas Fulda @amfchina.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Überzeugt mich nicht. Ich habe viel von Auer gelernt, der Merkels Krisenmanagement als “too technocratic and too political“ kritisiert hat. SPD und Bündnis 90/Grüne stehen in dieser Tradition. Leider stärkt diese Strategie paradoxerweise die rechten Parteien spectator.clingendael.org/en/publicati...

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Dimitry Kochenov Yaroslavsky @profkochenov.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

🇺🇦Supreme Court: mobilization is "irreversible", when it was unlawful it does not change the situation of the kidnapped person: t.me/stranaua/189... 👉Once the war is over a complete ssessment of Ukraine's adherence to EU values has to be redone: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @stefanauer.bsky.social

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

‘The experience of countries of migration (eg 🇦🇺) shows that there is a troubling relationship between public acceptance of migration and the (perceived) porousness of borders. Electorates are more likely to support migration when they believe their government remains in control of migration flows.’

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

‘If the unique accomplishment of German political culture is that Germans are proud of not being proud of their nation, why should anyone make sacrifices — including the ultimate one of risking their life — for a nation whose membership is meant to be shameful?’ revdem.ceu.edu/2025/03/14/f...

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Quo Vadis, Deutschland? – The Future of Multiculturalism | Review of Democracy

This mini-series brings together leading scholars working in and on Germany to offer their insights into the key questions arising from this pivotal moment of transition. Through a multi-angled, inter...

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

‘German multiculturalism “has failed, utterly failed,” Angela Merkel said in 2010. The irony is that Merkel contributed to this failure more than any other German chancellor in recent history — not with words but with deeds.’ Or so I argue here 👇

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

‘If the unique accomplishment of contemporary 🇩🇪 political culture is that Germans are proud of not being proud of their nation, why should anyone make sacrifices —including the ultimate one of risking their life —for a nation whose membership is meant to be shameful?’ revdem.ceu.edu/2025/03/14/f...

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

“the EU does not need to be a Weberian state, nor be destined to become one, for the state-building perspective to shed new light on its processes of political development.” Has your assessment changed now that the EU has been exposed as unable to defend itself without the U.S. support?

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It’s nice to see my 2015 paper ‘Carl Schmitt in the Kremlin’ cited in Munich Security Report 2025. I warned about Russia’s ‘Großraum’ ambitions back then (when all such warnings were largely ignored). securityconference.org/publikatione...

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MSR 2025, Kapitel 1 – Einleitung: Multipolarization

Is the world really entering an era defined by multipolarity? What are the (potential) poles of such an order? How polarized are they? What are the implications of a multipolarized order? And how can ...

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

And what about Europeans? Aren’t Europeans also “inches away from betraying our fellow European ally and friend, Ukraine”?

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

He talked about internal security. The two are connected, as Vance explained. And as Scholz said a while ago (without doing much about it): “ohne Sicherheit ist alles nichts“.

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This would be a great plan, if it could be made to work. Who and how will secure Ukraine though?

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Does anyone still believe that euro would replace US 💵 as *the* reserve currency for the world? It’s amazing that my statement was controversial just 3 days ago.

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Does anyone still believe that euro would replace US 💵 as *the* reserve currency for the world? It’s amazing that my statement was controversial just 3 days ago.

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

EU doesn’t even need unhinged leaders to fall apart. Its problems are systemic. No chance of euro replacing US 💵

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Good luck with that. Isn’t there a massive tree imbalance between the US and the EU?

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Good luck with that. Isn’t there a massive tree imbalance between the US and the EU?

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Stefan Auer @stefanauer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In a time in which military power matters again, EUrope is no much to the US.

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