@gabrielsilesb
Professor in Global Governance & Public Policy, @uob-policystudies.bsky.social | Co-edit @jcms-eu.bsky.social | IPE, EU Studies, public policy, trade, Brexit, health | 🇪🇸 & 🇩🇪 | In @ucu.org.uk | Own views | He/Him.
New in JCMS: @svenschreurs.bsky.social on the EU Platform Work Directive, how pressure, legal creativity & timing broke deadlock & set new rules for platform work, & what this means for EU regulatory capacity.
Read open-access here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#EUPolitics #JCMS #UACES
Slide titled “Supporting Our Authors.” Lists four aims: guiding authors through publication, promoting rigorous scholarship, ensuring research integrity and ethics, and fostering a diverse, inclusive community. JCMS, Wiley, and UACES logos appear below.
Thinking of submitting to JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies?
We’re here to support authors at every stage, from developing ideas to publication.
Explore our aims, editorial priorities, and practical submission guidance in this series 👇
#JCMS #AcademicPublishing #EuropeanStudies #UACES
Brexit did not simply weaken UK–EU cybersecurity cooperation! New research in JCMS shows how collaboration has persisted through informal networks, shared expertise, & communities of practice.
Read open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#JCMS #UACES #Brexit #EUPolitics
For anyone Dutch-speaking who's interested in #Brexit and the supposed reset in EU-UK relations, here's my two cents for @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social's 'Summer Series' on how the #TCA could be used to promote progressive causes on both sides of the Channel.
Do you have a knack for creating engaging content and building online communities?
UACES is seeking a part-time Social Media and PR Assistant with a focus on journals. The deadline to apply is Wednesday 6 August 2025.
More information on our website: www.uaces.org/social-media...
#UACES #job
An absolute pleasure to host @mcopelov.bsky.social for his insightful & provocative talk. Lots for EU Studies to learn from IPE! 🎙️A recording will be posted soon and the text 📝 of the lecture will appear next year in the pages of the journal. Thanks also to @ces-europe.bsky.social for hosting!
🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨
Volume 63, Issue 4 of JCMS is out now! 🌍
Explore key debates on EU funding, Euroscepticism, foreign policy and more.
Edited by @cardwellpj.bsky.social, @rguerrina.bsky.social, and @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social 📚
Read the new issue here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965...
✍️ If you are a scholar working in EU Studies and comparative regionalism, please do send us your best work! We're a multi-disciplinary, methodologically and theoretically pluralist journal open to the full range of rigorous work in our scope. We also publish policy commentaries.
"[The] UK-US trade deal illustrates what has become a common feature of contemporary trade politics. Economic considerations have given way to the desire to perform sovereignty for its own sake."
Tony Heron, @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social & Darrin McDonald on trade deals👇
Check out this blog post on the death of 'Global Britain', which draws on our open access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social on the performance of trade policy:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
JCMS is pleased to announce that from 2027, there will be two special issues published per year. 📚
We’re currently inviting proposals for the Spring and Autumn 2027 Special Issues.
For more details, see the full call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
New JCMS Issue! 🚨
Editors @cardwellpj.bsky.social, @rguerrina.bsky.social and @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social have curated another insightful issue exploring new perspectives on European Studies. Congrats to all the authors for their dedication to the field! 📚
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965...
🚨 New #OpenAccess publication in @ripejournal.bsky.social, together with Tony Heron (York) and Darrin McDonald (Leeds Beckett).
Do have a read by clicking on the link below! ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks Mark! Went with a slightly different literature here, as the backstage/front stage distinction wasn't the main focus.
Weekly round-up! 📚
It has been a busy month for JCMS, with new and insightful research being published every week.
Here are some articles you may have missed ➡️ bit.ly/3RAuaKv
@cardwellpj.bsky.social @rguerrina.bsky.social @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
In the conclusion, we highlight how there are some important lessons here for the study of trade policy in the age of #Trump and the unilateral imposition of tariffs. This is performative trade policy par excellence.
Rather than a focus on the content of trade policy, what we argue that the desire to perform trade policy independence was the key driving factor of UK trade policy in this period.
We focus on the UK's post #Brexit trade policy, and specifically its free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand to highlight the importance of practices and performativity in trade policy.
🚨 New #OpenAccess publication in @ripejournal.bsky.social, together with Tony Heron (York) and Darrin McDonald (Leeds Beckett).
Do have a read by clicking on the link below! ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks Toni! You too!
New Fellow @tonihaastrup.bsky.social is Chair in Global Politics at official-uom.bsky.social! Her research explores power hierarchies in global politics & encompasses a range of topics within international studies incl. feminist foreign policies & global inequalities. acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
Beyond delighted to be elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences! Truly an honour, and I look forward to supporting the work of the Academy. Congratulations too to my @jcms-eu.bsky.social co-editors @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social @rguerrina.bsky.social & UACES chair @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
Congratulations to:
- Professor Christopher Hill
- Professor @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
- Professor Helena Farrand Carrapico
- Professor @cardwellpj.bsky.social
- Professor @rguerrina.bsky.social
- Professor @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
Who have been awarded @acadsocsciences.bsky.social Fellowships!
The only dampener is that this news comes as my employer, the University of Bristol, has announced a cost-cutting strategy that threatens the social sciences (and arts and humanities) at the University: www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
I also want to acknowledge the @uob-policystudies.bsky.social, which has been a wonderful environment to work over the past year and a half - providing a rich and stimulating interdisciplinary setting for teaching and research. I am really proud to work here.
I also want to acknowledge @uaces.bsky.social Chair @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, who is also joining the Academy and with whom I have also really enjoyed working over the years. This signals the real impact the European Studies is having on the academy and further afield.
It is an absolutely privilege to be joining the Academy of Social Sciences, which does such important work to promote these disciplines at a time where they face really challenging times. It is doubly rewarding to be joining at the same time as my fellow @jcms-eu.bsky.social editors.
These consultancies remind me of Cornish wreckers in the c18th, luring ships onto the rocks. Unis think they can see a lighthouse with harbour, but ooh no it isn't. They thought they were being sold safety, but in fact they've been handed a doomsday device. And they don't even know it! (3/3) /END
By loading all the functions on the centre, you increase the data stress there to intolerable levels, and it collapses. You also ramp up costs that the thinner and thinner 'lower' offer cannot meet. You do quality and reputational harm that is likely impossible to repair. (2/2)
One underreported facet of the Great University Crisis is the contribution of a small number of consultancy firms who recommend:
*Centralise functions
*Cut small courses
*Reduce student options
*Abolish loads of joint awards
*Chop staff headcount
This is *exactly* what you must not do. (1/3)
