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Tomas Weiss

@tomasweiss.bsky.social
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Professor, JM Chair & Dep Director for Research, Institute of International Studies, Charles University; research on small states, EU CFSP and Czech foreign policy

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
To all of you out there.
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Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
What role does ‘foreign policy specialisation’ play for small EU member states in international negotiations? In their article, @tomasweiss.bsky.social & Sandra Fernandes define it as a deliberate, enduring prioritisation of a region or topic in national foreign policy. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/eSvP8
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The paper is behind a paywall, unfortunately. Contact me if you cannot access it.
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
It's part of a SI on #CEE actorness. Thanks to the editors @karolinapomorska.bsky.social & Emilian Kavalski. And @mariannalovato.bsky.social, @adinaakbik.bsky.social, @gnoutcheva.bsky.social, Jožo Bátora, Stefan Cibian, Konstantinas Andrijauskas, Magda Góra and @natsty.bsky.social for comments!
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a group of minions are standing next to each other in a classroom and saying `` great job '' .
ALT: a group of minions are standing next to each other in a classroom and saying `` great job '' .
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The text concludes that the context is as important for the recognition of specialisation as the effort #small states put into it. This finding is relevant for small state scholarship and for foreign policy practice.
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The article compares two specialisations in #Czech foreign policy in the EU. It examines resources, discourses, and social networks. It argues that the crowdedness of one of the policy areas explains the difference.
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
‼️ New publication in Cambridge Review of International Affairs ‼️ My article asks when small state foreign policy specialisation gets recognised by others. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ims.fsv.cuni.cz @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz @unikarlova.cuni.cz
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Specialisation (un)recognised: human rights and Western Balkans in Czech foreign policy
Specialisation is essential for small states to punch above their weight in international organisations. The literature argues that specialisation allows small states to concentrate resources and b...
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The article compares two specialisations in Czech foreign policy in the EU. It looks at resources, discourses and social networks. It argues that it was the crowdedness of one of the policy areas that explains the difference.
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Are you interested in Teaching & Learning? This is the event for you.
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Jan Rovny @jrovny.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Many are concerned about the return of Babiš to the top of Czech politics. While the results of this weekend's Czech legislative election poses its concerns, I am an optimist. I think Babiš's victory is rather Pyrrhic. Here are some thoughts: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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The 2025 Czech election – Andrej Babiš’s Pyrrhic victory
Andrej Babiš’s ANO won the 2025 Czech election on 3–4 October. Yet as Jan Rovny explains, Babiš will find it challenging to form a stable government.
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Let us know what you think! And check our acknowledgments (missing in the article) in this Linkedin post. www.linkedin.com/posts/tom%C3...
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Foreign Policy Specialisation in EU Small States: Conceptualising and Analysing an Underexplored Practice - Journal of International Relations and Development | Tomáš Weiss
‼️ Publication alert ‼️ Foreign Policy Specialisation in EU Small States: Conceptualising and Analysing an Underexplored Practice In our new article, Sandra Fernandes and I propose a definition of s...
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We also identify new research questions that our definition may help address, be it on the specialisation itself, its origins and changes, the domestic politics of specialisation, and the international impacts of specialisation.
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We propose a definition of small state foreign policy specialisation. We trace the concept of specialisation across academic literature and policy practice of EU small states.
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Read our newest open-access publication in JIRD on small states' foreign policy specialisation: doi.org/10.1057/s412... #smallstates #research #EUstudies #academics
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Foreign Policy Specialisation in EU Small States: Conceptualising and Analysing an Underexplored Practice - Journal of International Relations and Development
This paper defines and categorises the concept of ‘foreign policy specialisation,’ emphasizing its significance in small EU member states’ practices and its role as a source of power in international ...
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
#UACES2025 starts on Monday in Liverpool. Once again, a range of brilliant panels. Many of them in our themed track on European security. I hope to see many of you there to discuss foreign interference, small state specialisation, and many other topics. @uaces.bsky.social @seceur-uaces.bsky.social
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Interesting read, even if worrying. Much more reliance on paid WoS in Czechia. But some promotion models started going the Scholar way. Maybe a mistake…
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Jednou IMS, vždycky IMS. @ims.fsv.cuni.cz
IMS alumni
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This is great reading. It offers a very limited hope that European defence may ever work, but it does not rule it out entirely, so that's a relief. It's also slightly depressing research-wise. The complexity of it all almost prevents any meaningful understanding. In any case, go and read it!
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I really look forward to reading this! Congrats!
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
My almost 30 minutes on Trump, Russia, Transatlantic relations and all that jazz on the Czech public radio (in Czech). plus.rozhlas.cz/trump-naslou...
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Trump naslouchá tomu, kdo s ním mluví poslední. Na Aljašce to bude Putin, upozorňuje politolog Weiss
Prezidenti Donald Trump a Vladimir Putin se v pátek setkají na Aljašce. Ukrajina ani Evropa zastoupeni nebudou, evropští státníci se ale shodli, že jejich bezpečnostní zájmy musí být na jednání zohled...
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
And this, dear readers, is why people go to social media. Not for disinformation and venting their rage, but for exciting analyses of issues they actually never cared about until reading the threads.
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
A very thought provoking essay. What is the reason we ask students to write?
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This is a great post. Students often do not understand the importance of the research question. This post explains it so well!
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I am going to save this and go back to it every single time I need to write an abstract. My future me will love me for doing it.
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Evidence that humanities help us better understand the world around us.
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If you are interested in small states, you mustn't miss the current issue of Small States & Territories, which offers 25 articles on how small states offer answers to big questions. Edited by Hillary Briffa and Anna-Lena Högenauer, it's all open access. www.um.edu.mt/sst/currenti...
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Current issue - L-Università ta' Malta
Current issue
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This is such a good story!
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Yep. As she says. But Sauna!!!
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I think it's a mixed design leaning toward the "classroom" setting. And my guess would be the need to fit all 200 MPs plus the government into a relatively small hall, which was listed. I don't think there is seating organised depending on whether the parties are in government or in opposition.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Donald Trump has dedicated his life in politics with single-minded ferocity to one luminous goal: the utter and final destruction of the weekly magazine
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Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
If it walks like insider trading, and it quacks like insider trading...
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A must read thread on the German coalition agreement and foreign policy!
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Genius! theonion.com/rotation-of-...
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Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness
NEW YORK—Millions of eyewitnesses watched in stunned horror Tuesday as light emptied from the sky, plunging the U.S. and neighboring countries into darkness. As the hours progressed, conditions only w...
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Just to remind you that there is still time to apply for a full-time post doc at Charles University and work with us on reaction to foreign interference in the EU, NATO and their member states. Let me know if you have any questions. #AcademicSky #polisky #EUsky #research #researchjob
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Surprise, surprise!
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
No tak když už jsi tady...
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Willkommen! Je to tu fajn.
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Just to remind you that there is still time to apply for a full-time post doc at Charles University and work with us on reaction to foreign interference in the EU, NATO and their member states. Let me know if you have any questions. #AcademicSky #polisky #EUsky #research #researchjob
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Díky Honzovi Burešovi a @brestan.bsky.social za pozvání do Makromixéru. Mluvili jsme o evropské bezpečnosti, o obranném průmyslu, transatlantických vztazích a tak podobně. Otázky byly skvělé, odpovědi snad dostačovaly. Můžete se rozhodnout sami: 1url.cz/v16zK
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MakroMixér Jana Bureše a Roberta Břešťana s Tomášem Weissem 2/2025
MakroMixér Jana Bureše a Roberta Břešťana · Episode
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is securitisation misunderstood at the extreme: If you don't label something a threat, it will not be a threat.
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The bridge metaphor is one of the most stupid ones in foreign policy (very common in Central Europe). Bridges are things to walk over, not things that steer anything. And no country that positioned itself as a bridge has ever had any meaningful impact. It's just alibism of the worst kind.
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Libby Whittemore @libbage55.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
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Daniel Fiott @danielfiott.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Even if a Frankenstein made up of Clinton, Obama and Biden wearing a Santa costume handing out free oil, gas and F-35s to EU member states were to re-emerge it would still be in Europe’s best interests to develop their own defences…
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Great job opportunity in Berlin! Apply for the position of the deputy director of the Institut für europäische Politik. Become the Deputy Funda! iep-berlin.de/en/about/car...
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Deputy Director, Institut für Europäische Politik | IEP
We are looking for a deputy director to join our institute management team as soon as possible. The deadline for applications is 14. April 2025.
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Jonathan Polk @jonathanpolk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!
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Postdoctoral fellow in political science: party competition in Europe
Are you our next postdoc with a focus on using expert surveys to examine political party competition around cleavage politics? The Department of Political Science invites applications for a 2-year pos
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Europe United in Belief That JD Vance is a Prick
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I know you have other concerns now, with NATO collapsing, the US turning authoritarian and what not. But maybe you have a PhD student about to finish out a postdoc looking for a job. Let them know we want them in Prague to research on foreign interference (including from the US). #polisky #EUsky
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
❗ CfA full-time postdoc position on foreign interference! ❗ Join us in Prague for research on foreign interference in the EU, NATO and their member states. A full-time research job for 42 months. Deadline for applications: 17th March Start date: July 2025 More info: ims.fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/post...
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Postdoctoral Research Position at the Institute of International Studies - INTERFER Project | IMS - Institut mezinárodních studií
The Institute of International Studies announces an open call for a postdoctoral research position within the project INTERFER, focused on foreign interference and national and international reactions...
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Tomas Weiss @tomasweiss.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Antonín Panenka ran for the Czech Senate in 2014 in Prague (district 22) as an indenpendent candidate, but ended 4th in the first round and was not elected. (It seems to me that ice hockey players have been much more successful in Czech politics than footballers.
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