@mstephen
Prof of IPE @ Helmut Schmidt Uni Hamburg, IR stuff, 🇳🇿, 🇩🇪, DFG Heisenberg Fellow, formerly WZB Berlin, rando https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=k0d0H2QAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao sites.google.com/view/matthewstephen https://www.china-hegemony.com/
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SCMP: "The European Union has been urged by the EU’s official think tank to weaponise its giant market to draw concessions from China, whose economic fragility is making it increasingly reliant on rich export markets."
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China probably hopes that the US again becomes bogged down in a long conflict with Iran, but its strategic plans are usually not based on hope. 1/7
Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”
It would be strategic lunacy for Europe to support the US/Israeli war on Iran. It is an illegal war that comes with huge costs: regional spillover, higher energy costs, helping Putin in Ukraine. It risks drawing Europe into a new regime change quagmire
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This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Closing Azeri and/or Georgian, Armenian airspace would be a huge blow to European and Asian travel economies… it’s really quite the bottleneck between long-haul Europe and Asian air routes now.
Aus gegebenem Anlass
Nice contrast to Friedrich Merz who couldn't wait to offer up Sanchez as human sacrifice
When pressed on his plans for a transition of power, Mr. Trump said he hoped Iran’s elite military forces — including hardened officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who have held substantial influence and profited from the existing regime — would simply turn over their weapons to the Iranian populace. “They would really surrender to the people, if you think about it,” he said. It was those same security forces — in particular, the Basij, which organizes local militia — that opened fire on street protesters in January and killed thousands.
Peace president has visions for peace
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They don't say this publicly of course. I heard Wadepfuhl on the radio this morning and his basic message was an indirect "IL sure but also realpolitik"
One (generous) interpretation would be that they have drawn the conclusion that if no one else feels constrained by international law, why should they? If we think of IL as cooperation, once one side defects, continuing to cooperate would only result in the sucker's payoff.
IDF on social media:
"And then I did this crime, and then I did this crime, and then I..."
US-Israel war on Iran live: Israel launches new wave of attacks ‘in the heart of Tehran’ after death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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More likely they will frame it as "defending Israel" from the Iranian response
illegal use of force by every measure, domestic & international
Wtf is this supposed to actually communicate? "Other largely landlocked seas such as... California?
I don't always write policy relevant, but when I do, it's
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Together with Steven Langendonk
Aus gegebenem Anlass:
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Zusammen mit
@stevenlangendonk.bsky.social
I would take a pay cut to not have an email address.
The funny thing about all this is that Trump already had a perfectly good nuclear deal with Iran in his term but he tore it up out of pure spite against Biden 🤷
Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew
Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/
Ooft, French foreign minister:
"The European Commission should never have attended today's "Board of Peace" meeting in Washington, as it had not received the Council's mandate to do so."
A great day for the rule of law in two countries
Abstract Academic freedom is an unusual and complex set of norms and practices. It arises out of the combination of the corporate self-governance of medieval universities and the spirit of disciplinary scientific inquiry in modern research universities. It combines a principle of antiorthodoxy as to conclusions with the robust associational self-governance of scholarly communities whose members evaluate one another as participants in that shared enterprise. It has never been easily or wholly embraced by wider societies; today it is under wholesale attack. This article combines conceptual, normative, and historical analyses of academic freedom as a general norm with attention to conflicts over it in the mid-to-late 2010s and early 2020s. Some genuinely hard cases and questions tested the meaning of academic freedom and university values well before the current crisis.
Now posted ahead of print:
"Conceptualizing Academic Freedom," forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science.
(Uncorrected proofs, so a few minor edits different from the version that will be published in June.)
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
This always bothered me about the "return of great power politics" framing. Rhetorically appealing but misleading. Power did not go on holiday after the cold war. Theories built on this assumption were wrong, or have v. limited scope conditions.
Why is the US even involved in negotiations to end the war?
Europe pays for everything, and the war happens in Europe
@kanol.bsky.social und @maxschaub.bsky.social heben die Bedeutung der kulturellen Wurzeln des Antisemitismus, insbesondere des christlichen Antijudaismus, hervor und zeigen aktuelle Reaktivierungen:
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The Bolsonaro playbook:
Create mistrust in the election process, wait for supporters to riot/attempt coup/do other batshit stuff after eventually losing the election