❇️ The 2026 Joint Sessions #ecprjs26 are officially underway! Wishing all participants across our 3️⃣3️⃣ Workshops an enriching week ahead ⛰️

Not in Innsbruck this week? You can still join us for the Stein Rokkan Lecture by @siljahausermann.bsky.social, streaming FREE as part of #ECPRHouseSeries 👇

📣🏆We are honoured to be awarded the PSA Specialist Group of the Year 2025/26!

Many thanks to the jury at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social for their trust, our convenors and executive committee members for their work, and all our members for their active contribution!

Anarchy Is What Donald Trump Makes Of It There's anarchy and then there's ANARCHY.

Yup. Welcome to the New Trumpian Anarchy.

@dandrezner.bsky.social

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UKICE Lunch Hour: UK-EU relations in 2026 - UK in a changing Europe Join UK in a Changing Europe experts and former UK Permanent Representative to the EU Sir Ivan Rogers for a discussion on the future of UK-EU relations.

🚨 NEW EVENT 🚨

6️⃣ This January will mark 6 years since the UK's departure from the EU

🇬🇧🇪🇺 To discuss the important year ahead in UK-EU relations, UKICE's team of experts will be joined by Sir Ivan Rogers

📆 Fri 31 Jan, 1pm GMT
💻 Online

Sign up here 👇

ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...

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📣 Temporary job for political scientists!

We are advertising a temporary position of Lecturer and Researcher in British Politics (HU-Berlin, full-time, 1-year, PhD or PostDoc level) to replace me during my paternity leave. Find the advert here (in German): www.hu-berlin.de/universitaet...

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

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It was great to be back at @eui-schuman.bsky.social
for a workshop on "The EU between differentiation, disintegration, and enlargement". Find most papers on @wepsocial.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/bdz7arw7) and @jeppjournal.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/4htxs4hk). Thanks to all organisers and participants!

From Hope to Disarray: The Parliamentary Conservative Party’s Road ... Introduction The 2019 General Election in the United Kingdom produced a remarkable result for the Conservative Party. It won 365 out of 650 seats and around 44% of votes, which represented its high...

Now out in #RFCB, my article about the growing dissatisfaction of Conservative MPs before the 2024 General Election... Useful to understand the weekly defections to Reform UK and public discontent with the course of the party by senior party officials!

journals.openedition.org/rfcb/14232

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British Eurosceptic voters before and after Brexit Introduction A decade ago, Brexit emerged as the most salient, divisive, and transformative issue in British politics. Having gathered strength since the early 1990s both within the Conservative pa...

Paolo Chiocchetti, “British Eurosceptic voters before and after Brexit”, Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique [Online], XXX-3 | 2025
doi.org/10.4000/14qkm

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization.

We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition.

Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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📣 Vising fellowship for early-career researchers at our Centre for British Studies in Berlin (6 months, €5,000). Political scientists welcome!

Coming soon with @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social...

British Labour Leaders: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/britis...

British Conservative Leaders: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/britis...

Cover of the journal West European Politics.

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Volume 48, Issue 5 (2025). The Special Issue "External Differentiation: A New Trajectory after Brexit and Ukraine?"

Edited by @pchiocchetti.bsky.social Stefan Telle & @brigidlaffan.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fwep20/c...

Many thanks to: my two co-editors Stefan and Brigid; all the contributors; the wonderful team at WEP (@wepsocial.bsky.social); the DFG (@dfg.de) for the related grant; and the Centre for British Studies of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) for the logistical support!

EU external differentiated integration as a crisis response tool? Evidence from Ukraine Emerging scholarship on the EU and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has predominantly focused on explaining the unprecedented strength of the EU’s response, especially it...

In the tenth article, Maryna Rabinovych show how pre-war external differentiation agreements strengthened Ukraine's resilience under aggression
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A fragile relationship: Turkey and the European Union moving beyond membership with external differentiated integration Turkey’s relations with the European Union depend on extensive legal instruments, drivers of interdependence and voluntary compliance to the EU rules. With an Association Agreement dating back to 1...

In the ninth article, Meltem Müftüler-Baç reassess the complexities of Turkey's relations with the European Union
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

External differentiation as a strategy of system maintenance: EU enlargement towards the Western Balkans Despite the stalling of enlargement countries’ accession to the EU, these countries have been recurrently involved in EU policies. There is, however, little knowledge about their participation in E...

In the eight article, Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré and Matteo Bonomi explain differentiated integration in the Western Balkans as a 'strategy of system maintenance'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

EU–UK relations after the war in Ukraine: options to re-engage post Brexit The article examines the relationship between the UK and the EU after Russia’s aggression of Ukraine, discussing options to deepen cooperation post-Brexit. The article outlines the current framewor...

In the seventh article, Federico Fabbrini (@deli-dcu.bsky.social) explores the post-Brexit framework of the UK-EU relationship and the legal avenues for a more ambitious relaunch
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Switzerland’s intricate differentiated integration with the European Union: bringing governance (back) in For three decades Switzerland has been pursuing an approach of sectoral bilateralism, resulting in an intricate pattern of external differentiated integration with the European Union (EU). This art...

In the sixth article, Sieglinde Gstöhl reassesses the Swiss approach to differentiated integration, highlighting the importance of governance aspects
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association Perceptions of the ‘wriggle room’ within the framework of European integration might have significant implications for both public opinion and policy choices, as exemplified by the Brexit process. ...

In the fifth article, Kristine Graneng (@kgraneng.bsky.social g.bsky.social) & Lise Rye examine Norwegian politicians' presentations of their 'wriggle room' within the EEA association
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

EU trade agreements and external differentiation: a large language model approach The EU’s trade agreements with third countries exhibit varying degrees of alignment with intra-EU rules. What factors explain this external differentiation? This article answers this question by re...

In the fourth article, Andreas Dür (@andduer.bsky.social uer.bsky.social) develops a novel LLM-based methodology to measure the textual distance between EU trade agreements and explain their varied degree of legal alignment
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

EU external differentiated integration in aviation and trade: what drives Southern neighbours? This article contributes to the emergent scholarship on European Union (EU) external differentiated integration (EDI). Zooming in on aviation and trade, two of the most salient sectors of cooperati...

In the third article, Tobias Schumacher surveys external differentiation in aviation and trade agreements with Mediterranean countries, highlighting the role of domestic factors in promoting or constraining cooperation.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Democratic standards in external differentiation: the area of freedom, security and justice The article investigates standards of democracy and accountability in external differentiated integration. It focuses on the area of freedom security and justice as a highly differentiated EU polic...

In the second article, Maria Patrin investigates democratic standards in external differentiation through the case study of the on the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

External differentiated integration: between stability and change The external relations of the European Union (EU) are complex. Existing research has handled this complexity by approaching the EU’s external relations from a variety of distinct perspectives. The ...

In the first article, Telle, Chiocchetti & Laffan reassess the concept, theories, and long-term empirical evolution of external differentiation, highlighting an emergent shift toward a logic of geopolitical consolidation.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....