uncanny that the departure of Joseph Nye coincides with the death of US soft power

New article out in European Policy Analysis! M. Abisso
@eugenioc.bsky.social & I integrate framing into narrative analysis and employ the NPF to examine the portrayal of EU actors in Southern European media coverage of irregular migration.

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Two months after the beginning of Israel’s Gaza invasion, the EU appears equally divided and all the more isolated

Frontex director Leijtens belatedly acknowledged no evidence supports the claim that sea rescue NGOs serve as a pull factor of irregular migration. Nice to see that that the work Matteo Villa and I published might have made a small difference publications.iom.int/system/files...

job alert 🚨 I am hiring a post-doc working me on the securitization of irregular migration across the Mediterranean: pica.cineca.it/unime/adr-23...

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How to lose the Global South and break EUropean unity

First piece of shameless self-promotion under the blue sky: ever wondered why political party logos change? In this article, we find out that party logos Europeanize after Central and Eastern European countries join the EU: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@giovannigruni.bsky.social rieccoci qua sotto un altro cielo

Across Israel, Arabs and Jews join forces to help victims and prevent riots www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Zelenskiy fears Middle East conflict could hit military aid to Ukraine President warns of ‘dangerous situation’ for his country as western attention shifts to Israel after Hamas attack

Support for Ukraine may be yet another of Hamas’ victims www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

Shitposting, Shit-mining and Shit-farming Three Stages of Platform Decay

Interesting take on why we are are and on twitteX descent into a shit-based (shit-posting, shit-mining and shit-farming) business model programmablemutter.substack.com/p/shitpostin...

Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing... In recent years, private military and security companies (PMSCs) have assumed an increasingly important role in the international arena. The growing tendency to

Thanks @nicoblar.bsky.social for having my book on the political cost-effectiveness of military privatization reviewed on International Studies Review! academic.oup.com/isr/article-...