Excellent thread by Mujtaba Rahman on Macron Sorbonne 2 speech

A great line up to of scholars to celebrate Mark Blyth IPE distinguished scholar award #ISA2024 #IPESection
Matthias Matthijs Jacqueline Best Kate McNamara katemcnamara.bsky.social Leah Downey

ISA Panel honoring Mark Blyth : part heartwarming tales, part serious epistemological interventions, and always entertaining.

Featuring Kate McNamara katemcnamara.bsky.social, Leah Downey, Matthias Matthijs, Jacqueline Best, Hendrik Spruyt, Lou Pauly.

Vanaf vandaag werpt onze man in Washington, de eminente prof en Belgo-Amerikaan Matthias Matthijs , tweewekelijks zijn blik op de kiesstrijd in zijn column State of the Union De Tijd L'Echo. tijd.be/r/t/1/id/10533…

Three months from today, 400M voters across the EU will participate in the European Parliament elections. On June 6, Jovita Neliupšienė joins American Enterprise Institute and experts to discuss the #elections and their consequences for Europe and the transatlantic relationship. RSVP today: bit.ly/3wKGZuz

Ouch

Agree with Shahin Vallée that the question of seizing Russia's assets isn't simple.

But there is one of part of this puzzle that should be simple and easy: using the interest income on the reserves (it currently isn't going to either Russia or Ukraine but to Euroclear)

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‘Europa heeft een rol te spelen in het conflict in het MO, maar heeft niet de macht om de feiten op het terrein te veranderen.' Federica Mogherini, dinsdag te gast De Tijd L'Echo, in debat met Jonathan Holslag en Matthias Matthijs tijd.be/r/t/1/id/10518…

That’s 2/3 of the UK electorate planning to vote for progressive policies… can’t remember the last time it was so high… and yet all the commentary still sees this as a contest between Sunak & Starmer…

If you’re still looking for the perfect Xmas gift, at least for your University library (!), Unexpected Revolutionaries is up for pre-order at cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150177…

Here is a thread on what you’ll find in it 1/9

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Welcome to Johns Hopkins SAIS Johns Hopkins University, Adam Auerbach! Looking forward to being colleagues soon.

.Council on Foreign Relations is launching the 2024-25 Technologist-in-Residence fellowship. Learn more about this unique opportunity: cfr.org/fellowships/te…

A Economist/Commerzbankshocking chart illustrating the size of German public autonomous funds apparently used to bypass budget rules. Imagine if this referred to a southern country…. For others, Germany continues to block a revision of the Stability Pact

Traffic-light coalition sees support drop from 52% of vote share in Sept 2021 (last GE) to 34.5% today. Big shift to the right in Germany… from 46% in Sept 2021 to 58% today… a sign of things to come in EU in June 2024?

Amen

You would laugh quite hard a decade ago if someone told you the European Commission by 2023 would rate Greek and Spanish public finances above those of Germany or the Netherlands. (Per Bloomberg)

The EU's geopolitical contribution to 🇺🇦 war was meant to be € & EU integration, while US would lead on the harder (military) stuff. But these 2 pillars of EU support are now unravelling ahead of Dec EU leaders meeting

What's going on? Only read if you want to be depressed 1/

Most recent polls point to a three-way race between the far right (Wilders), the right (VVD), and the left (Greens-Social Democrats) with about half the voters still undecided. Should be exciting!

🗓️Wednesday, November 22🗓️

American Enterprise Institute's Stan Veuger hosts Dutch Amb. to the US Birgitta Tazelaar (@NLAmbassadorUSA) and a panel of experts to discuss the stakes & the early results of the Dutch elections.

Cosponsored by The Netherland-America Foundation.

Details and RSVP ⬇️
aei.org/events/electio…