There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China.
But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves.
New paper & thread 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Unser ganzes System von Bewertungen, auf denen dann Karrierechancen beruhen, zerbricht gerade. Höchste Zeit, dem grundsätzlich zu begegnen.
single-member district results rn at #HungarianElections –– landslide for #TISZA, #Fidesz is washed away. Also a personal 1st: voted for someone who actually won the first time in my life
Orbán declared defeat
Hungary: National parliament election
Turnout at 3:00 PM CEST
2010: 46.78%
2014: 45.02%
2018: 53.64%
2022: 52.75%
2026: 66.01%
Source: Nemzeti Választási Iroda
➤ europeelects.eu/hungary
#Hungary
Seen in Budapest
Great analysis of the political economy of Orbán's rule, and why it is now coming apart.
Although things are likely to get messier after
If you have not followed the Hungarian election campaign here is a primer. Be prepared for many nasty twists
What a depressing email to wake up to.
1. Of all the books to review, Nature chose the one by a propagandist of Orbán?
2. I published “The Far Right Today” with Polity, thinking they would become my main publisher. Despite some dubious publications, they were solid. Then a new editor arrived.
Always hugely insightful to listen to Helen Thompson.
If so, Europe must abandon the omnibus deregulatory onslaught and instead resuscitate its ability to plan the damn green transition
very thoughtful thread on the challenges lying ahead for Hungary even in the best of all bad cases.
Picture from the EUI website, where under the title "Endgame or entrenchment? Hungary's parliamentary election in comparative perspective" someone is seen waving a Hungarian flag
join @filipkostelka.bsky.social @zsofia-v.bsky.social Imogen Bayley & me in Florence @eui-eu.bsky.social or via Zoom on 16 April, as we discuss the implications of the #HungarianElection 🇭🇺🗳️ Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
My new study is out with @feps-europe.eu. "Laboratories of Counter-Hegemony: Orbán, Trump and the Transatlantic Far-Right Ecosystem" maps the infrastructure that has turned a small Central European country into a launchpad for reorganizing the Western right. 🧵 1/9
👉 feps-europe.eu/publication/...
Apply!!!! I can think of a number of amazing IPE/CPE scholars 3-5 years from their PhDs who would be extremely well qualified for this position and could *diversify* Max Planck intellectually, geographically, and demographically.
Polexit? Not quite yet
Germany in a nutshell.
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The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Sciences in Göttingen is now beginning its work.
Political scientist Ursula Daxecker - left - and sociologist Steffen Mau - right - have been appointed to the MPI for Political and Social Sciences in Göttingen.
A new beginning in Göttingen 👋🤗 The #MaxPlanckInstitute for Political and Social Sciences launches under Ursula Daxecker & Steffen Mau addressing social & political challenges, including democratic backsliding, social inequality & conflict www.ips.mpg.de @steffenmau.bsky.social
Some good background on the upcoming Hungarinan elections. "For the first time, the regime is asking voters to tolerate autocracy and rampant corruption without delivering rising living standards in return."
The deadline for this year's CEEISA proposals - papers, panels, and roundtables - is April 10, 2026. The theme - Contesting Imperialism(s) - could not be more urgent, and Sarajevo and its history are an important vantage point from which to reconsider empires, their legacies, and their future!
Bratwurst, Bier, Bürgerbüro: Die AfD will nicht nur gewählt werden, sie will das Dorfleben übernehmen. Ein Strategiepapier aus Rheinland-Pfalz zeigt, wie aus Grillabenden politische Infrastruktur wird, um so rechtsextreme Positionen weiter zu normalisieren. www.belltower.news/afd-strategi...
Less then 10 days left to apply for the interdisciplinary Joint Master's Programme in Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz
www.jointdegree.eu/en/news/call...
Truly insightful analysis by the great @cornelban.bsky.social .
@cornelban.bsky.social, the link does not work. I read the piece and would love to share it, do you have another link?
IR faculty with sabbaticals next year - McGill has a one-semester (Fall 2026 or Winter 2027) visiting professorship. It pays $21,000 CAD and entails teaching a small graduate course and hanging out with us. DEADLINE IS MARCH 27.
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A new fascinating paper by @thunen.bsky.social has dropped
Contesting Imperialism(s) - Central and East European ISA conference in Sarajevo, BiH, June 17-19, 2026. Deadline for proposals - April 10, 2026. There will be a pre-conference workshop for young scholars. For info, please visit: ceeisa2026.com
This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.