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Prof of IPE @ Helmut Schmidt Uni Hamburg, IR stuff, 🇳🇿, 🇩🇪, DFG Heisenberg Fellow, formerly WZB Berlin, rando https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=k0d0H2QAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao sites.google.com/view/matthewstephen https://www.china-hegemony.com/
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We have written a thing about the source of the violation of the anti-conquest norm @nilsgilman.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-new-poli...

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remember when bigballz used chatgpt to tariff the penguins....innocent days

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They went all that way just to find more Australia

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I know it's been ages but to be honest I'm still getting my head around this

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

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The feudalism in German academia is simply absurd - people outside of Germany usually are in a mild state of shock after hearing about it for the first time

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Almost done another semester of Intro to IR, which means an updated Definitive (?) IR Playlist. The world order's a *&#% mess, but it's got a great soundtrack. New songs from The Cure, Billie Eilish, & more, & of course, much R.E.M. Spotify 👇& songs by topic: www.markcopelovitch.com/_files/ugd/8...

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A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections". Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x) #CivMilSky

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I'll admit going back to Navigation Act style mercantilism wasn't on my bingo card for 2025 edition.cnn.com/2025/04/18/b...

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Some moments from my current visit to NZ

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Yes full lobotomy

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Now for something you've all been waiting for: this forum on organisational entanglements finally brings together power transition and regime complexity! Includes a contribution from me and Yuqian Cai on China's institutional layering. Props to @stephofmann.bsky.social for bringing it all together👏

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"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries--uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/her... www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/her...

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So that's it for globalisation 2.0 I guess

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PhD scholarship on China’s IR and Asian security, Griffith University. Application deadline 10 April 2025. www.seek.com.au/job/82930221...

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I am a total sucker for a great post/article/book title. Dan has taken his game to the next level (@dandrezner.bsky.social)

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New measure for geopolitical turbulence just dropped: how zig zaggy flight paths have to be to avoid war zones

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An oldie but a goodie 😊

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Latin American side of my feed right now watching as Canadians and Europeans find out the US might not be a beacon for freedom and democracy abroad

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Welcome to Hamburg Steve! Onwards and upwards :) 🥳🛟🚢

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Sadly too late to nip this thing in the bud www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

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lol, from UK satirical magazine Private Eye

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We're bang in the middle of global upheaval that's sweeping all before it. This could include the EU-China relationship We're still waiting for the *actual* change, but there has been lots of noise, so here's a long thread on what has happened this year and where we are today Anatomy of a detente?

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Can't help thinking that a tanking stock market could be the only metric that penetrates Trump's brain. Investor sentiment more important than elections at this point

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Come to 🇩🇪 it's a Wissenschaftswunderland

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Dear Europe: You are next on the hit list. Good arguments, preemptive concessions, appeals to friendship, and flattery will not protect you. Discard those fantasies and prepare to hit back hard.

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For the first time since WWII, an extreme right party came 2nd in German national elections. Their rise was fueled by austerity and free market economics. To defeat the far right, we must adopt an anti-fascist economic policy that provides an alternative to the status quo.

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On the one hand, tariffs will cost the US consumer dearly. But on the other, they will reduce competitiveness and growth 🤷

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I must say I'm grateful to Macron and Starmer. Really taking one for the team

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Agreed. Big things happening in German security policy

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I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

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My research gets gooder the more coffee I drink right? ☕☕🤯😑

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Chamberlain’s surrender of Czech territory to the Nazis in 1938 was one of the greatest strategic blunders and moral failures of the 20th century. But at least he had the “decency” not to blame Czechoslovakia for Hitler’s aggression.

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The Munich Security Conference refuses to invite BSW und AfD but apparently didn't realise they would be platforming a rightwing extremist who uses his time to attack European democracy and normalise the far right www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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We are advertising a PhD student position in polisci for research on democracy, autocracy, and international cooperation. Come join a great team on a critical question of our times! Deadline: 6 February👇 www.su.se/english/abou...

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Same problem here

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Denglisch much?

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working in international economic policy comms today

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Say what you will about the Trump tariffs. It's a great day for historical IR youtu.be/yuOHbyuanbY?...

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“If we have tit-for-tat retaliation, whether it's 25% tariff (or) 60% and we go to where we were in the 1930s we're going to see double-digit global GDP losses. That's catastrophic. Everyone will pay.” WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala last week. www.reuters.com/markets/trad...

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An inflection point in Canada history. Long-held assumptions must now be rethought. This is the behaviour of a hostile power.

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Angela Merkel kritisiert Friedrich Merz. Ein Schritt, den sie bisher nie gehen wollte. Damit macht sie noch einmal deutlich, was für eine Zäsur das gestern war. Egal wem Merz und Linnemann das in die Schuhe schieben wollen. Sie haben sich nicht an ihre eigenen Standards und Versprechen gehalten.

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📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣 ✅ (WS DB) Deception and Deceptive Strategies in International Relations

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Begun the trade wars have

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