NEW ARTICLE: "Normative power at its unlikeliest: EU democratic norms and security service reform in Ukraine" Gergana Noutcheva in Cooperation and Conflict #OA ➡️journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

NEW ARTICLE: "The Geoeconomic Turn of the Single European Market? Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Trends" by Anna Herranz-Surrallés JCMS ➡️onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jc…

We have just published 3 literature reviews in our ENSURED project on EU support for global governance transformation There are the very first publications of our project (total: 112 pages!) ➡️ ensuredeurope.eu/publications

NEW ARTICLE: "Ad hoc coalitions in European security and defence: symptoms of short-term pragmatism, no more?" Yf Reykers Pernille Rieker published Journal of European Integration ➡️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Dinner last night where they had theirs #MaastrichtTreaty 🇪🇺

Congratulations to Iskander De Bruycker Soetkin Verhaegen and Christine Arnold at FASoS Maastricht for a superbly organised and highly enjoyable Politicologenetmaal 🇳🇱🇧🇪 at Maastricht University

Publication alert: my chapter on (first DG Competition) Pieter VerLoren van Themaat and social-democratic thinking about competition in the early postwar Netherlands, 1940s–1960s, was just published in this exciting volume: routledge.com/The-Developmen…

“The EU’s dedication to multilateralism has been challenged recently,” Hylke Dijkstra says. Find out in this interview how the ENSURED project studies how the EU and its members can make global governance more robust, effective and democratic: maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/um-and-mu…

new paper up in our special issue on the geoeconomic turn in IPE: Clara Weinhardt & Ferdi De Ville on EU trade&investment policies and their implications for developing countries: cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgov… open access, so please check it out

VACANCY: Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Theory (3 years) Maastricht University in our research programme PCE with Janosch Prinz Application deadline: 2 July ➡️ Details: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht…

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: "The Geoeconomic Turn of the Single European Market" edited by Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Chad Damro, Sandra Eckert JCMS 👏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965/2…

It was a great pleasure to deliver my inaugural lecture "Multilateralism amid Geopolitics" Maastricht University yesterday in acceptance of my professorship ➡️ Full text + video: cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publication…

Congratulations Aleksandra Komornicka for winning a Veni-grant NWO Nieuws for the project "The Market Next Door: Western European Multinationals and the Remaking of Central Europe, 1969-1993" ➡️Details: nwo.nl/en/researchpro…

Well done Aleksandra Komornicka 🎉

NEW ARTICLE: "Are authoritative international organizations challenged more? A recurrent event analysis of member state criticisms and withdrawals" PEIO/RIO with Farsan Ghassim NestIOr ➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Congratulations to Aleksandra Komornicka for receiving an NWO Nieuws Veni grant for her project ‘The Market Next Door: Western European Multinationals and the Remaking of Central Europe, 1969-1993’👏

Starting the academic year with this new book

Vandaag publiceerde De Standaard mijn reactie op het standpunt van prof. Tom Sauer over de geplande defensie-investeringen. "Het debat over defensie-investeringen vervalt te vaak in simplismen" standaard.be/cnt/dmf2024090…

NEW ARTICLE: "Issue congruence in international organizations: A study of World Bank spending" Mirko Heinzel Bernhard Reinsberg Giuseppe Zaccaria published in Global Policy ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…