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kaijaschilde.bsky.social
Political scientist, Associate Dean, Jean Monnet Chair of European Security and Defense--Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies, Global Fellow @Wilson Center
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An admin throwing away all its leverage. "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, according to three people familiar with the matter." therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

submitted 12 hours ago • 37 comments

Reality check. Thank you, Financial Times.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

If you don't pay close attention to German politics, you don't know how much of a political earthquake it is to see a _CDU_ leader making this kind of statement.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

European trust in the EU is at its highest since 2007. One reason I think it is likely we see a ramp up in EU activity. europa.eu/eurobaromete...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Quinn Slobodian on the Trump-Musk-DOGE administration. It bypasses the easy comparisons being made with 1930s Germany to provide us with something useful www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote a new piece for the Munich Security Conference. There is a case to borrow to rapidly rebuild Europe's military capabilities - and to do so jointly. But there's no free lunch. EU leaders needs to have hard-nosed debate about the trade-offs involved. ip-quarterly.com/en/how-europ...

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

Damon Hininger, CEO of private prison giant Core Civic, just told investors: " I've worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career ... we're anticipating .. the most significant growth in our company's history." theintercept.com/2025/02/11/c...

submitted 15 days ago • 168 comments

Building state capacity is inordinately hard, hollowing it out might be remarkably easy. And rebuilding that very same capacity— hard again. Hollowing out the state is an explicit political strategy to hobble future governments

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The problem with Americans trying to adopt the Orban model is that they can't ask the EU Commission for more money to bail them out if things go wrong

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

Wish I'd had more time in my @democracynow.org segment to get into Musk's mastery of short-term hype cycles: where follower count and influence manifest less as vote share (elections are infrequent), more as stock boost and meme coin pump schemes (which are constant). www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8lL...

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

Check out this wonderful discussion of the consequences of the recent U.S. elections for European Security, featuring @polinabeliakova.bsky.social, Stacie Goddard, Kaija Schilde, and @laurensukin.bsky.social. This conversation was part of the Pardee School's Global Security Speaker Series.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Bundesbank chief calls for softer debt brake to increase investment on.ft.com/49pdgGB

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Now it gets interesting: one of the frugals advocating common debt and more public investment in the defense industry

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Great paper by @sandertordoir.bsky.social and @lscazzieri.bsky.social on the options for common EU defence spending. Grateful for the shout-out to A. Steinbach's and my paper on "EU debt financing" which looks at the legal leeway to issue joint EU debt: www.bruegel.org/working-pape...

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