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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Feb 17

The #MSC2025 will certainly be remembered as a key turning point in the transatlantic partnership.

I am very grateful to the @munsecconf.bsky.social that has invited me to this year’s conference and awarded me the John McCain Dissertation Award!

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Tom Hunter @tommccraehunter.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 New(ish) Publication Alert! Delighted to see my article Credit Claiming in the EU @thejop.bsky.social I explore a classic question for accountability in Europe: when and why do govs claim credit for the work of the EU and shift blame onto Brussels to avoid responsibility? doi.org/10.1086/732970

Credit Claiming in the European Union | The Journal of Politics: Vol 87, No 3

Incumbents in multilevel systems are assumed to exploit uncertainty of responsibility by claiming credit and shifting blame, yet little is known about when and how they engage in these rhetorical stra...

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · 11d

The paper was recently published in @govjournal.bsky.social and is available #openaccess: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gove...

Shifting the Blame or Defending Implementation: How Do Explanations for Compliance Shape the Legitimacy of Contested EU Policies?

As European Union (EU) policymaking becomes increasingly politicized, national and local authorities face pressure to justify compliance with contested EU rules. This study examines how different exp....

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · 11d

👉 The implication for #EU member state governments: Ensuring domestic support already at the stage of #policymaking appears advantageous to promising #responsiveness or attempting to shift the blame during policy #implementation!

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · 11d

2⃣ Blame shifting can only help #local authorities that, in contrast to #national governments, can credibly deny involvement in EU policymaking.

3⃣ Substantive justifications of the policy are more effective than promising #responsiveness to citizens’ concerns at a later stage.

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · 11d

Key takeaways:

1⃣ In contrast to the widespread view that #blaming the EU helps member states to cope with domestic #contestation, we find that #defending the policy is generally more effective.

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · 11d

How can member states convince citizens to support #compliance with contested #EU policies? 🇪🇺

In our recent contribution to @govjournal.bsky.social ,
Asya Zhelyazkova, @thijslin.bsky.social, Agnieszka Kanas and I draw on a survey experiment to examine the effectiveness of different strategies👇

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DVPW Early Career Gruppe Internationale Beziehungen @ecib-dvpw.bsky.social · Sep 11

📣 #CfP The 18th Early Career Conference on International Relations (25–27 Feb 2026) once again invites PhD candidates & postdocs to present and discuss their research in beautiful Tutzing! Abstracts can be submitted until 30 Sept 2025. Further details can be found in the attached call.

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Sep 2

While I don’t plan on becoming a “practicing wizard” anytime soon, I hope my research can nevertheless inform decision-makers about how Europe can position itself in the transatlantic partnership and the LIO at a time of intensified geo-politicization and multi-polarization.

Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Sep 2

I look forward to engaging with its stellar academic community and in particular working with my mentor, @stephofmann.bsky.social. During the fellowship, I will advance my research on US withdrawal from multilateral institutions, Europe’s responses, and the implications for the LIO.

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Sep 2

I am excited to spend the coming academic year as a Max Weber Fellow at the @eui-eu.bsky.social – Europe’s “Hogwarts,” as The Economist recently put it.

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 29

I am very grateful for all the helpful comments by the discussants Alexandros Tokhi, @andrealiese.bsky.social and @kovarek.bsky.social, and many more!

I hope to meet again soon! 🤓

Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 29

3️⃣ A study about IO blame games, in which Berthold Rittberger, Bernhard Zangl, and I argue that clarity of #responsibility for #IO policy failures is a variable and shapes whether member states, supranational bodies, or the IO in general gets the #blame: tim.heinkelmann-wild.eu/research/lis...

IO Blame Games

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 29

2️⃣ A long term dataset 1945-2024, that demonstrates that the #US #withdrawal from multilateral institutions is not a #Trump-specific phenomenon and that #Europe often successfully provided alternative #leadership: tim.heinkelmann-wild.eu/research/lis...

AfterExitUS

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 29

1️⃣ A comprehensive analysis of #Trump 1.0, which finds that his attacks against multilateral institutions was #strategic and most institutions remained #resilient: tim.heinkelmann-wild.eu/research/lis...

IA 2025

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 29

Goodbye Thessaloniki! 🇬🇷

I very much enjoyed participating at the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference #ECPR25, to meet (again) so many great colleagues, and to learn about and discuss their ongoing projects.

I had the chance of presenting and getting feedback on three studies 👇

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Tom Hunter @tommccraehunter.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited to be on a great panel on Politicization and Party Strategies in the EU @ecpr.bsky.social. Featuring @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social , @kovarek.bsky.social , @duarteamaro.bsky.social, @saorhan.bsky.social among others. Come on down to the Polytechnic School (B 5.39)at 13:30 tomorrow (29 Aug)!

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 26

The panel is part of the #ecprgc25 section "21st Century International Organizations: Disruption and Resilience", organized by Jelena Cupac and Alexandros Tokhi, that will continue tomorrow at 8:30 in the Theology Building, Amphitheatre C, 2nd floor.

Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks a lot for all the great comments to our discussant, Alexandros Tokhi, and the – amid the high temperatures – very resilient and vital audience!

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 26

Simon Weisser presented his paper "Power Shifts and Inter-Institutional Change in #GlobalFinance: The Institutional Resilience of the #IMF and Future Opportunities for Competing IOs" (co-authored by Andreas Kruck)

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 26

@stephofmann.bsky.social Hofmann presented her paper "The #EU as an Orchestrator in Support of #Multilateralism: Tradeoffs and Dilemmas" (co-authored by @andrealiese.bsky.social & @tsommerer.bsky.social)

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 26

I presented my paper "After Exit: #Leadership Transition and Institutional #Resilience After Hegemonic Withdrawal", covering #US exit from international institutions beyond #Trump

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 26

Dmytro Panchuk presented his paper "The Impact of #Russia|’s War Against #Ukraine on Europeans’ #Trust in #NATO"

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 26

International politics becomes increasingly (geo-)politicized. How do IOs respond? Which are resilient and which decay?

Our panel at the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference in Thessaloniki today provided answers to these questions 👇

#ecprgc25 #Geopolitics #IR

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 13

The review also flags important avenues for future research on EU #blame games, such as #country and #socialmedia dynamics.

Thanks a lot for the careful reading and evaluation of our book!

Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Aug 13

The review critically appraises our argument that #blame games for #EU policy failures often taget the right political actors under the conditions of a functional public sphere and clarity of #responsibility:
doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

European Blame Games: Where does the buck stop?

Abstract. Who is held responsible when EU policies fail? Which blame games resonate in the European public? This book challenges the conventional wisdom th

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