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volacu.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest; Political theorist/Political scientist
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 8 days ago • 964 comments

My new paper is out in Constellations. It's on democratic resilience and how we can draw on historical examples to think about its pursuit through contemporary institutional design. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

submitted 20 days ago • 881 comments

Maybe it's a little hyperbolic, but my current feeling is that many people would be safer going to Syria, than the US right now. I had already made the decision of not travelling to the US if Trump is re-elected long ago, but still eerie to see this unfolding: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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(continuation of previous thread) The motivation for barring Georgescu from running in the Romanian election has been published by the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC). Contrary to initial reports overviewed in my previous thread, the decision was taken on substantive, not procedural, grounds. (1/n)

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

A brief update on what's going on in Romania, as there aren't a lot of us on Bluesky, but I know some non-Romanians may be interested and the international media doesn't always do a great job in presenting the facts. (1/n)

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Seems a bit egocentric to use social media to share one's work in these times, but I'll put this out there nonetheless. So my article on Free Riding and Compulsory Voting is now out (Ahead of Print) in Journal of Politics: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania. 1/23

submitted 52 days ago • 64 comments

How to kill a democracy in 10 easy steps. Unfortunately a very relevant post by Lisa Herzog. "Always remember: exhausted citizens are submissive citizens. Or no citizens at all – at some point of sleep deprivation, they turn into subjects. That’s when you know you’ve won. "

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Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 65 days ago • 609 comments

🚨 Call for Abstracts! 🚨 The III Barcelona Workshop in Political Theory is now accepting submissions! 🏛✨ Join us in Barcelona on 19 June for a dynamic exchange on cutting-edge research in political thought! 📝Submission deadline: 15 March

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Two 4-year salaried PhD positions in EU foreign policy at @polscileiden.bsky.social @leidensocial.bsky.social to work with my amazing colleague @karolinapomorska.bsky.social as part of the @ec.europa.eu funded EUFOG project. Share = 🙏

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

The Canadian public and especially political class should understand the US President is explicitly declaring economic war on Canada with the goal of ruining & then annexing it. This is not merely a tariff war and the political class shouldn’t treat it as merely that: Deal with the intent to annex.

submitted 68 days ago • 20 comments

The tariffs are mad; but what’s equally mad is that they somehow come as a surprise, when Trump has campaigned non-stop on this and controls all branches of government Precious time has been lost, but it’s not too late for countries to mount an effective response 1/x

submitted 68 days ago • 12 comments

Special Issue on Justice for Denizens, edited by Johan Olsthoorn is now on line, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: (2025) Vol 28, No 1 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Here is my recent article on Justice Everywhere: justice-everywhere.org/general/envy...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

I've removed myself from Twitter a few months ago due to Musk-related reasons, and given the deterioration of Facebook I'll give Bluesky a shot. Mostly here for academia and political theory-related stuff.

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments