Mijn reactie bij #DeOchtend @Radio1be: stemming verloren, maar heel brede steun voor volwaardig VN-lidmaatschap is toch een overwinning voor Palestina. Deze staat niet erkennen wordt zo almaar marginaler. radio1.be/luister/select…

Was a pleasure to discuss global economic inequality w Eva Smets at Oxfam’s Change! weekend on economic justice

Very honoured to announce our special section in European Security, which focuses on the agency of those states and actors that Russia for a long ignored or silenced! with Andrey Makarychev Skytte Institute UT Ghent Institute for International&European Studies

In deze analyse voor DenktankMinerva leg ik uit waarom het 🇪🇺 groen industrieel beleid in haar huidige vorm gedoemd is om teleur te stellen, en dat voor 🇧🇪 extra pijnlijk is.
Een 🧵
denktankminerva.be/analyse/2024/4…

Excited to announce the first article of our special section in European Security! This intriguing piece by Andrey Makarychev offers a unique look into the performative agency of the new Russian migrants in Estonia Skytte Institute UT Ghent Institute for International&European Studies

The EU & Member States can confidently support candidate countries without undue fear of direct Russian retaliation because NATO provides deterrence & defence. But Europe is no longer a priority for the US #PESCO #svenbiscop Beatriz Cózar Murillo Egmont Institute bit.ly/3U2700k

⏮️In case you missed it, new publication by #SvenBiscop & Beatriz Cózar Murillo this week Egmont Institute

PESCO: The Last Chance

egmontinstitute.be/pesco-the-last…

Spending the next 2 days at the MarieSkłodowskaCurie presidency conference. Alongside attending insightful panels, I’m presenting my poster on EU aid to Africa. Come by to say hi 👋🏽, see the visuals, ask questions about my work or discuss my particular research trajectory #MSCA2024BE

Today, IRENA released a new report on the Geopolitics of Energy Security. Proud to have been involved in the production of the report. Here’s a link to the report and a thread with some key takeaways. /1
irena.org/Publications/2…

📢Check out the latest essay of our Karolina Kluczewska titled “Murivat Beknazarov’s Art as Memory”.
It pays homage to one of Tajikistan’s most prominent and prolific artists, who died in 2023

Read more: neweasterneurope.eu/2024/04/11/mur…

Save the date: maandag 27 mei.

Groot verkiezingsdebat over Oekraïne (defensie & geopolitiek) met politieke kopstukken aan de UGent. Volgende week meer details.

📢Join us on 24 April at 18h00 for an online event 'Anti-authoritarian Resistance in the Digital Age: A Conversation with Yuliana Shemetovets, representative of Belarusian Cyber-Partisans'.

The event will be moderated by Fabienne Bossuyt.

Registration: teams.microsoft.com/registration/3…

📢In her latest essay, our Karolina Kluczewska reflects on the satisfactions and challenges of being a “pracademic”, or a practitioner-academic, in the field of international development

Read more: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Very honoured to have given the keynote speech at the Brussels conference 'Energy transition, sustainability and inclusive development in Central Asia'. Thank you Sebastian Schiek for the invitation🙏European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) Ghent Institute for International&European Studies

ENC Academic Council Member Dr Fabienne Bossuyt's keynote speech highlighted 3 key insights:
1️⃣ #ClimateChange will create more crises, including in Central Asia, and the importance of EU🇪🇺-CA🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯🇺🇿🇹🇲 cooperation and the need for societal resilience

📣 Congratulations to our Academic Council Member Dr. Fabienne Bossuyt on her recent co-authored article titled 'Negotiating de facto borders: the case of social services provision in #Abkhazia and #Transnistria '. Full article🔗bit.ly/4a8xT9J

Glad to have joined João Póvoa Marinheiro at CNN Portugal to talk about defence policy reforms of European states in response to the war in Ukraine.

Not all countries implemented transformative reforms, partly due to different threat perspectives.

cnnportugal.iol.pt/videos/radar-i…

🎓 Do you research gender, sexuality and intersectionality in politics and academia?
🇧🇪 Join ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics #ECPG2024
🤝 Organised by Bram Wauters Nicolas Bouteca Robin Devroe Petra Debusscher Laura Luciani Elise Storme
🗓️ 8-10 Jul UGent
⏳ Deadline 24 Apr ecpr.eu/Events/253

New paper out on green monetary policy referencing our colleague’s @hielkedoorslaer’s GIES Occasional Paper on interest rates and energy inflation!

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

For the full edited volume that it was part of, see: ugent.be/ps/politiekewe…

Congratulations Dr. Vandeputte!

Our friend and colleague Nathan Vandeputte successfully defended his PhD-thesis on EU democracy promotion in Uganda!!