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Centre for International Relations/Peace and Conflict Research @iratut.bsky.social · Jul 11

missed the plenary, made the point.
@thomasdiez.bsky.social at #EWIS2025 on why international society needs to be studied from below — through the everyday, not just diplomacy.
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#EverydayIR #EISA #InternationalStudies

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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · Jul 5

War gerade in einem #ICE mit der Aufschrift "Wir rollen für #Europa". Oder so. Das ist doppelt falsch. In #Deutschland rollt man nicht mehr für Europa, sondern für #Grenzkontrollen. Und am Ende rollte der Zug gar nicht. Technischer Defekt an einer Tür. Branding allein nutzt halt auch nichts.

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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · Jul 2

www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro...
The main German news programme asks whether #Schengen is dead because #Poland is introducing border controls on Monday. But it's #Germany who will have killed it.

Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · Jun 4

Eine von vielen Fragen derzeit an Julia Klöckner: hätten Sie @cansinkoektuerk.bsky.social auch dann des Saales verwiesen, wenn sie ein T-Shirt mit "Ukraine"-Aufschrift getragen hätte? Oder "Israel"? @bundestag.de

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Franz von Lucke @fvonlucke.bsky.social · May 30

🚨Publication alert🚨:
My new article 'Towards Orchestrating Normative Power in the Climate Crisis' is now available (OA).

It's part of a SI by Ian Manners on 'Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis' #EU #NormativePower #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Towards orchestrating normative power in the climate crisis - Franziskus von Lucke, 2025

The European Union has long presented itself as a key actor when it comes to tackling the climate crisis and has been called a climate leader or ‘green normativ...

journals.sagepub.com

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Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · Jun 2

Friedensforscher sehen USA als "Unsicherheitsfaktor"#Friedensgutachten

Friedensforscher sehen USA als "Unsicherheitsfaktor"

Im Friedensgutachten 2025 plädieren Experten für mehr Unabhängigkeit in der europäischen Verteidigung.

www.tagesschau.de

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Holger Nohr @holgernohr.bsky.social · Jun 2

Wir haben einen Innenminister, der nicht bereit ist Rechtsstaatlichkeit zu akzeptieren und - selbst nach einer Gerichtsentscheidung - rechtsstaatlich zu handeln ...

Der Weg ist höchst gefährlich.

www.tagesschau.de/inland/zurue...

Trotz Gerichtsentscheidung: Dobrindt hält an Zurückweisungen fest

Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt hält trotz einer Gerichtsentscheidung an Zurückweisungen von Asylsuchenden an den Grenzen fest. Das Gericht habe eine Einzelfallentscheidung getroffen und verlange nur nac...

www.tagesschau.de

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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · May 30

New book on #infrastructure and #international_relations out now - including my reflections on how infrastructural development has enabled (re)formations of #international_society. Check it out! @iratut.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Transnational Infrastructures and the Transformation of Global Orders

This book offers a multidisciplinary insight into the significance of infrastructural change for global orders.

link.springer.com

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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · May 23

Skytte prize winners speak out www.ft.com/content/939b...

Letter: Prize-winning political scientists speak out

From Francis Fukuyama and others

www.ft.com

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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · May 23

Brave letter from three international students at Harvard on Trump’s assault on the university and the broader implications www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up.

Three student leaders on Trump’s attempts to throw them out of the country.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · May 23

Can someone in the #EU or in the government of my country please find clear words of condemnation of what the #US #government is doing to its universities - and to the world? Imagine #Putin or #Erdoğan would be acting similarly. #standbyharvard @kajakallas.bsky.social @larsklingbeil.bsky.social

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Dagmar Vorlíček @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social · May 13

It was fun talking about infrastructures and global security at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Thanks for the invitation and curious questions and comments! @marcokrueger.bsky.social @kawezel.bsky.social @katharinakrause.bsky.social @thomasdiez.bsky.social

Paul Wohlfahrt 🇪🇺 @wohlfahrtp.bsky.social · May 13

Raum wird wieder politischer und gewinnt an Relevanz im Diskurs. Spannender Einblick in die Bedeutung von Bedeutung von Infrastruktur für Sicherheit von @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social

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ProfPTJ @profptj.bsky.social · Apr 2

Amidst all the awfulness, it’s good to see two new books published on my Configurations series!

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · May 7

Sad news: Joe Nye has passed away. www.belfercenter.org/collection/r...

Remembering Joseph S. Nye

www.belfercenter.org

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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · Apr 25

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

Centre for International Relations/Peace and Conflict Research @iratut.bsky.social · Apr 24

Congratulations to Maximilian Ohle on successfully defending his PhD Thesis! 🎉

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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · Apr 21

So lange die Kirchen dazu aufgerufen haben, #CDU #CSU zu wählen, war das offensichtlich seelsorgerischer als sich gegen #Klimawandel und für #Geflüchtete einzusetzen. Es war nicht so geplant, aber grauenvoller hätte Julia #Klöckner den Tod von #Franziskus kaum kommentieren können

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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · Apr 15

Resist any intrusion into the freedom of universities. Anywhere.

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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · Apr 9

Wie kann es sein, dass ein Zug gerade eben noch pünktlich ist im #DBNavigator und dann von jetzt auf nachher 10 Minuten Verspätung hat? Wozu hat man die App überhaupt?? #RB74 @deutschebahn.com

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News About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · Apr 8

"...One of the clearest signs that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has abandoned democratic accountability and embraced full autocracy is his quiet yet deliberate retreat from the economic populism that once underpinned his rule..."👇

News About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · Apr 8

Turkey at a Crossroads: The End of Erdoğan’s Economic Contract and the Beginning of Dynastic Autocracy newsaboutturkey.com/2025/04/08/t...

Turkey at a Crossroads: The End of Erdoğan’s Economic Contract and the Beginning of Dynastic Autocracy

One of the clearest signs that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has abandoned democratic accountability and embraced full autocracy is his quiet yet deliberate retreat from the economic populism that on...

newsaboutturkey.com

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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · Apr 8

⏰ Upcoming deadlines ⏰

💸 Dissertation Support Grant applications are due on 11 April (in 3 days!)

🗳️ Members can vote in the Governing Board Elections until 21 April

📋 EWIS 2025 registration closes on 22 April

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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · Apr 7

⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg!

On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex...

Applications due: 2 May 2025

Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex...

#EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · Apr 7

Let me share something that has annoyed me. When I was asked to contribute to this CATS Network Perspectives in January, I scoured the web for analyses of the economic costs of the trade war that I suspected Trump would trigger, but I couldn’t find any.+

www.cats-network.eu/publication/...

How will the Trump administration’s protectionist policies impact Turkish-American relations?

After a year marked by elections around the globe, the elected governments are adopting new policies and reshaping the global environment. Most...

www.cats-network.eu

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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · Apr 7

My wonderful wife, Bettina Ahrens-Diez, was nominated unanimously yesterday to become the @spdde.bsky.social candidate for the next state #elections in March 2026 in the District of #Freudenstadt. Thank you, Freudenstadt, and fingers crossed!!!!

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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · Apr 4

On the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, and considering current debates in some #NATO countries, we ought to remember that the Ottawa Agreement banning #landmines is one of the great achievements of international society! www.un.org/en/observanc...

International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action | United Nations

On 8 December 2005, the General Assembly declared that 4 April of each year shall be observed as the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.

www.un.org

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