‘Rethinking Security in Europe’. Really glad to host David Cadier on next Monday April 15th (5-7 pm) at DISPI #UNIGE . We’ll have also Mara Morini as discussant. All info on the seminar here: dispi.unige.it/node/2800

New article by Lauren Sukin and @Alanoszka challenges convention wisdom regarding alliance reassurance. Key finding - respondents in Central–Eastern European countries prefer demonstrations of credibility that minimize the risks of crisis escalation. academic.oup.com/isq/article/68…

Dear #ISA2024 participants, you're very welcome to our 'team IRSEM' panel devoted to agency and great power competition from a 'Global South' perspective!

I'll present my ongoing research on Russia's anti(neo)colonial strategic narrative and foreign policy in West Africa.

We started #isa2024 early this year with a pre-conf workshop on 'Parties and Cabinets in Foreign Policy'. Jointly organized by Ben Martill, Sibel Oktay and me, we're over the moon for all the brilliant colleagues who are here to think about existing research & its future. ISA

In San Francisco with a nice and packed program at #ISA2024 : an ongoing and outstanding workshop on party/cabinet politics and foreign policy, two promising roundtables on populism in IR, and a topical panel on European responses to the Rus-Ukr war.
Let me know if you’re around!

It's that time of the year again! I was delighted to resume and have the first sessions of my course on EU Member states' national foreign policies at the College of Europe. Always great to be back at the College and meet the new students

EDIS et EDIP...

Derrière ces deux acronymes se cachent la stratégie et le programme industriel de défense de l'Union.

Au-delà des effets d'annonce, Samuel B. H. Faure et Dimitri Zurstrassen ont disséqué ces documents.

Ils en livrent la première analyse critique.
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Very much looking forward to this book, by one of the sharpest observers of US-Russia relations and Russian foreign policy

I was happy to provide some brief thoughts on 30 years of Czech foreign policy for Institute of International Relations Prague's Mezinárodní politika

A very welcome exercise for me as I am working on my book (in French) on Central European foreign policies since 2004

Thanks Jan Daniel for the invitation

As showcased in the Czech and French Presidents' joint press conference today in Prague, France and Central Europe's strategic outlooks on European security seem to be increasingly converging. I try to explain how and why here 👇

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🚩Moldavie : les risques de rapprochement entre la région sécessionniste de Transnistrie et la Russie

Les Enjeux Internationaux avec Florent Parmentier, politologue, secrétaire général du CEVIPOF - Sciences Po, chercheur associé au Centre de géopolitique de HEC Paris Business School

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People throwing flowers at the hearse carrying Navalny’s body. After so many waves of repression it’s amazing that so many of his supporters have turned out.

Opposer le rapport de force à la diplomatie c'est vraiment ne rien comprendre au premier et méconnaître la seconde. Comme disait Bismarck, la diplomatie sans les armes, c'est la musique sans les instruments

The fact that Macron’s comments about possibly sending Western troops to Ukraine sparked such widespread opposition shows why bringing Ukraine into NATO probably wouldn’t work. If the U.S. and Europe are unwilling to fight for Ukraine today, why would they do it in the future?

Le débat sur la guerre en Ukraine est hystérisé des « deux côtés ». Les uns veulent mettre fin à la guerre sans négocier avec l’ennemi, saut conceptuel intéressant, et les autres ne comprennent pas qu’il n’a pas de paix sans rapport de force sur le terrain, naïveté déconcertante.

Thank you David Cadier for this special analysis on France's changing policies towards Russia, Ukraine and Europe's security architecture. Tony Barber Farah Dakhlallah Tony Connelly

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And one last thing: Navalny wasn't murdered as an affront to the West. That doesn't mean the West shouldn't be offended. But Navalny's death was, first and foremost, an attack on Russia. By all means, be angry. I certainly am. But be angry on their behalf, not our own.

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