The push towards an ever-closer has undermined democracy in Europe. We need to revive democracy at national level in a Europe of nation states.

Europe’s Battle over the Meaning of Democracy YouTube video by Danube Institute

For democracy to thrive, we need to reclaim liberal traditions, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, or so I argued in a discussion with Philip Manow and Eric Hendriks at the Danube Institute in Budapest 👇 youtu.be/eqi4TNiVPcE?...

Europe’s Battle over the Meaning of Democracy YouTube video by Danube Institute

For democracy to thrive, we need to reclaim liberal traditions, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, or so I argued in a discussion with Philip Manow and Eric Hendriks at the Danube Institute in Budapest 👇 youtu.be/eqi4TNiVPcE?...

No longer sure whether Ukraine’s membership in the EU is necessary, but I am even more convinced that it is impossible. 👇It’s depressing to watch Europe losing Ukraine but I don’t see how the process can be reversed.

Happy to see my letter on Thomas Mann & Russia in
@financialtimes.com. Sad to see his take on Russia vindicated. “Great space, much time” explains “the recklessness of these people”, argued Settembrini. “They are the nation that has time and can wait. We Europeans, we cannot.”

Wir kommen dem Kern des Problems näher. Stefan Auer kritisiert den Merkel-Ansatz mit Verweis auf “das Politische”. Er bezieht sich dabei auf Konzepte von Carl Schmitt, Max Weber und Hannah Arendt. Sehr lesenswert www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🔎 Nicole Scicluna examines the framing of "enlargement" in von der Leyen's speeches and in manifestos of European parties

💡She finds that enlargement is still mostly framed in terms of technical procedures

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🇪🇺 Is the EU sufficiently democratic?

In a recent interview with Nicole Scicluna, assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University for the programme ‘Europe without borders?’, Prof. @alemanno.bsky.social, was asked about the democratic qualities of the European Union.

📺: bit.ly/42ffoyq

Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Writing, Thinking, and Why AI Can’t Save You Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

📖 New Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Why AI Won’t Save Your Writing

The Brown University political economist talks irritation, PowerPoint & why the page is still the only place where real thinking happens.

Read → catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

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Do you assign them Immanuel Kant? Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding, that’s the motto of the enlightenment (and a compelling reason to keep the AI away from teaching imo)

European Disunion with Stefan Auer YouTube video by Brussels Signal

‘The project that was meant to unite Europe and bring the nations of Europe closer together, seems to be pushing them further apart from each other’, or so I argue in a conversation with Ralph Schoellhammer on
@brusselssignal.bsky.social
Thanks for the invite, Ralph youtu.be/pz56R-CWRnY?...

European Disunion with Stefan Auer YouTube video by Brussels Signal

‘The project that was meant to unite Europe and bring the nations of Europe closer together, seems to be pushing them further apart from each other’, or so I argue in a conversation with Ralph Schoellhammer on
@brusselssignal.bsky.social
Thanks for the invite, Ralph youtu.be/pz56R-CWRnY?...

Happy to see my letter on Thomas Mann & Russia in
@financialtimes.com. Sad to see his take on Russia vindicated. “Great space, much time” explains “the recklessness of these people”, argued Settembrini. “They are the nation that has time and can wait. We Europeans, we cannot.”

Stefan Auer, European Disunion. Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency, London, Hurst Publishing, 2022, 256 p. Not registered yet?

“Auer’s European Disunion is an erudite personal essay about the state of the European Union by a teacher & thinker who has followed the European integration process for a long time…” shs.cairn.info/journal-poli...

“Reading Auer is sometimes pleasant, sometimes a little strenuous.” Grateful for this balanced review by Anja Thomas of my book in the latest issue of Politique Européenne

Europe’s World Europe’s World - Policy Paradigms, Strategic Thinking and the Anti-Liberal Challenge; The EU’s international environment is increasingly characterized by power-politics, growing great-power rivalry an...

Many thanks to Knud-Erik Jørgensen, Tonny Brems Knudsen & Laura Landorff for inviting me to contribute to their edited book 'Europe's World' bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-world. My chapter assesses the EU's response to Russia's aggression and violence in Ukraine @brisunipress.bsky.social

Stefan Auer, European Disunion. Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency, London, Hurst Publishing, 2022, 256 p. Not registered yet?

“Auer’s European Disunion is an erudite personal essay about the state of the European Union by a teacher & thinker who has followed the European integration process for a long time…” shs.cairn.info/journal-poli...

“Reading Auer is sometimes pleasant, sometimes a little strenuous.” Grateful for this balanced review by Anja Thomas of my book in the latest issue of Politique Européenne

Are secessionist entities in the post-Soviet space mere puppets in the hands of the Kremlin or do they have bargaining power of their own? Our latest PhD, Maximilian Ohle, argues the latter, even if this power is highly constrained. #Abkhazia #Transnistria @unituebingen.bsky.social

Thrilled to see Nicole Scicluna’s
and my own article about the necessity and impossibility of Ukraine’s membership in the EU being one of the most read outputs on @jcms-eu.bsky.social

Pushing the EU's Boundaries: Enlargement and Foreign Policy Actorness after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Click on the article title to read more.

It’s open access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thrilled to see Nicole Scicluna’s
and my own article about the necessity and impossibility of Ukraine’s membership in the EU being one of the most read outputs on @jcms-eu.bsky.social

It’s been 3 years since its publication by
@hurstpublishers.bsky.social
so I am all the more grateful to the editors of the Czech Journal of International Relations for publishing a critical review article of my book, European Disunion. 🙏 @stredoevropan.bsky.social cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

It’s been 3 years since its publication by
@hurstpublishers.bsky.social
so I am all the more grateful to the editors of the Czech Journal of International Relations for publishing a critical review article of my book, European Disunion. 🙏 @stredoevropan.bsky.social cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

‘European Disunion is distinct from the more academic works on the conflicts of sovereignty in the EU … [as it] skilfully integrates political theory, especially Carl Schmitt’s critique of liberal supranational projects, with a political analysis of recent events’🙏to Jana Vargovcikova for the review

Our dilemma: what if Russia doesn’t collapse for another decade or longer? Is Europe strong enough to help Ukraine to repel the invasion and deter Putin?

Our dilemma: what if Russia doesn’t collapse for another decade or longer? Is Europe strong enough to help Ukraine to repel the invasion and deter Putin?

Now with a blog by N. Scicluna: “Would-be Russian tourists are not an obvious target for sympathy. But putting aside the substance of the dispute, the larger issue is that of creeping member state unilateralism and the Commission’s permissiveness towards it.” jcms.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/03/26/e...

Been making this point too to academic colleagues traveling to the US - if you are anxious fly via Dublin or Shannon both with US immigration preclearance. Your US fight then lands as domestic.

Now with a blog by N. Scicluna: “Would-be Russian tourists are not an obvious target for sympathy. But putting aside the substance of the dispute, the larger issue is that of creeping member state unilateralism and the Commission’s permissiveness towards it.” jcms.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/03/26/e...