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Political scientist. 2025-2026 interim/substitute chair of International Relations @unihannover.bsky.social & on leave from @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social 🏡 https://lohaus.org 💡 https://transnorms.eu
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It's time for the EU to embrace Eurobonds and topple the US dollar. on.ft.com/4kgLYq5

Diese ganze Story stinkt zum Himmel. Bojanowski konfrontiert niemanden von den Grünen, der SPD oder einen Umweltverband mit diesen Vorwürfen, sondern holt bei der "Initiative Transparente Demokratie" eine Stellungnahme ein - ein Verein, der GERADE EINMAL ZWEI WOCHEN EXISTIERT?

Schließt die EU-Kommission Geheimverträge mit Umwelt-NGOs damit die dann Lobbyarbeit im Auftrag machen? 🧐 Gestern erschien in der welt ein Artikel, der das suggeriert. Damit wird dann Kampagne gegen Zivilgesellschaft gemacht. ❌Das Argument stimmt jedoch einfach nicht❌/1

As per tradition, the Financial Secrecy Index Visualized - in diamond plot format, with @taxjustice.net's data (2025 edition):

⚡Financial secrecy rocks democracies. The latest #FSI2025 shows countries enabling the most #financialSecrecy are shifting towards autocracy. US ranks 1st & downgraded to an anocracy. EU countries are accused of "Jekyll-and-Hyde"-like secrecy. bit.ly/450aU0U

In Berlin wie in Hannover werden Erfolge bei der #ExStra gefeiert: Ganz herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle Beteiligten! @scripts-berlin.eu @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social & @unihannover.bsky.social (Idee für eine Kollaboration: Liberale Weltordnung mit Lasern verteidigen? 🧐)

Reminds me of a discussion we just had at the @dvpw.bsky.social norms workshop in Hamburg... CC @carmenwunderlich.bsky.social et al.

Sorry, but this stuff drives me absolutely crazy. I’m sorry economists & journalists are just discovering the field of international political economy. But we’ve been studying & publishing about this stuff for 50 years now. There’s no new age of anything & “geoeconomics” has been around forever.

To mark the 75th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, the European Parliament is introducing the European Order of Merit. It is the first official European distinction of its kind, honouring individuals who advance European integration and values.

Over here, we make people resign if they plagiarized in their PhD dissertation...

Unenviable task for @isanet.bsky.social: In 2026, host a conference (that normally attracts >50% scholars from abroad) not just in the U.S. but in a Republican-led state. After Covid, the next big test for the "in-person-and-inside-a-Hilton" model.

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData

🚨🚨Great @politico.eu report on EU proposed response to Trump #tariffs revealing the ingenuity among trade nerds in @ec.europa.eu in adopting a less aggressive than expected but still painful counteroffer likely to stir bad mood in the Trump administration.🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

🚨🚨 This is excellent by @edwardluce.bsky.social on the futility of understanding #trump on the scale of rational foreign policy/trade policy schools of thought: www.ft.com/content/9f51...

Trump trade supremo Peter Navarro writes in the FT - an op-ed just published, after the worst three days of global market turmoil in decades. Everyone clear?

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

I think they treat partners by how much they "take advantage" of the US. Their measure is the export/import ratio, maybe taken from this Wiki page. To make up the "tariffs on the US": EU: 1 - 0.61 = "39%" Indonesia: 1 - 036 = "64%" Australia: 1 - 2.1 = oops, U.S. has a trade surplus, so "10%"

I just did the numbers and this assumption looks to be completely right. Let’s pause for a minute and consider how INSANE this is. 🧵

It’s only vote buying if it happens in the tropics. Otherwise it’s just sparkling whatever this is. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Deutsche SiPo-Community ekstatisch: heute Nacht endlich #Zeitenwende!

Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.

Honest question, not trying to be snarky: Surely that can't be all they got out of it? It seems kind of silly for someone in such a position to risk their career for a few thousand € (plus some nice dinners, presumably).

Sportmedien würden schreiben: "Für die kommende Saison haben sich @unihannover.bsky.social und @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social auf eine Leihe ohne Kaufoption verständigt." -> Ab April verwalte ich in Hannover die Professur für Internat. Beziehungen! (Kaffee dort oder im Bordbistro? Bitte melden! 🤗)

No, #libgen is not a library set up by evil corps to train AI. No, your publisher did not upload books to it. (Your co-author might have...) It's an old-fashioned pirate site used by many to circumvent paywalls and/or get out-of-print stuff. "Gray open access", basically. The AI guys came later.

An increasingly exasperated Judge Boasberg gives the government another 24 hours to explain themselves, with his order showing high skepticism towards any claim of state secrets for unclassified information that, as he points out, was largely disclosed by the admin already on social media.

Die "wissenschaftlichste" Petition, die ich je gesehen habe. Viel Text, einige Klicks nötig -- und Peer Review! 😃

Last week the 2024 data of the #AcademicFreedom Index (AFi) was released by @vdeminstitute.bsky.social & @fau.de. At @gppi.bsky.social I co-developed the AFi & want to share some observations. Access the dataset on V-Dem's website & read the 25' report: academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Interesting check on how things are going: Read @economist.com issues from a few months ago and see what they considered the worst case scenario. It's worth noting that the "But maybe it'll be OK..." paragraphs are gone by now.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

That's what I thought this morning: Who exactly does Musk think he'll gain as new Tesla customer by having Trump do a photo op in front of the White House? Even if he doubles "cybertruck" sales in the US, that won't make up for the decline in Europe...

Last night State Department sent Freedom House notification of termination of a multi-year, multimillion dollar grant for work on transnational repression that I spent most of the last year developing and setting up.

Das haben alle mitgekriegt? "House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent subpoenas to Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Rumble, TikTok, and X Corp. seeking each company's communications with foreign governments regarding its compliance with foreign ..

Crucial win for global health & constitution: Supreme Court 5-4, vacates stay, allows full enforcement of temporary restraining order... Trump Admin is again now required to restart aid, re-open the payment systems. Since first order though, moves by admin have made this even more complex. ... 🧵

BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES President Trump‘s emergency bid to cancel nearly $2 billion in USAID spending. The vote is 5-4.

Next, maybe use that room (named after a French cruise liner repurposed in WW2) for a session on U.S. commitment to NATO...? 😕 #ISA2025

Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.