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Erik Jones
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Director, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie Europe, Co-editor Government & Opposition. Re-post ≠ endorsement.

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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Nov 8
The usual politics has reformers challenge institutions while conservatives preserve them. What happens when the conservatives start challenging institutions as well? Who is left to preserve the status quo? The answer is pretty terrifying when you think through the implications.
Abandoning Institutionalism
People need to believe in society if they are going to believe in social institutions or institutionalism. Otherwise, they will embrace disintegration until they find a group they are willing to live with even if that group is not large enough to deal with the challenges they have to face.
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Andrej Matisak @matisaksk.bsky.social · 1d
If you, inexplicably :-), missed the most recent episode of my 🎙️ #podcast, #TheGlobalAgora, with @erik-jones.bsky.social, here it is: What are the Global Risks to the #EU in 2026?
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What are the Global Risks to the EU in 2026? by The Global Agora
Global Risks to the EU is a large-scale survey designed to quantify expert perceptions of conflict-related threats to European Union security. To explore what to watch for and what threatens the EU, I...
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Andrej Matisak @matisaksk.bsky.social · 2d
What are the Global Risks to the #EU in 2026? Listen to my 🎙#podcast, #TheGlobalAgora, with @erik-jones.bsky.social:
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#Russia #Ukraine #Putinswar #Trump
What are the Global Risks to the EU in 2026?
Podcast Episode · The Global Agora · 12/22/2025 · 24m
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Andrej Matisak @matisaksk.bsky.social · 3d
What are the Global Risks to the #EU in 2026? My 🎙️ #podcast, #TheGlobalAgora with @erik-jones.bsky.social:
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Podcast: What are the Global Risks to the EU in 2026?
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Andrej Matisak @matisaksk.bsky.social · 4d
What are the Global Risks to the #EU in 2026? Listen to my 🎙#podcast, #TheGlobalAgora, with @erik-jones.bsky.social:
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What are the Global Risks to the EU in 2026?
Podcast Episode · The Global Agora · 12/22/2025 · 24m
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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · 9d
For too long, we have taken the rules-based-international system and the transatlantic alliance for granted. Those were the certainties that allowed us to imagine Europe as something ‘nice to have’ and not something necessary. It is time for Europeans to embrace a more fundamental perspective.
Rethinking Europe in an Age of Uncertainty: From Club to Commons
We may speak about Europe as a kind of club that is nice to have in secure, stable, prosperous times.  But Europe means something altogether different when power replaces rules to make a more anarchical international system and when the United States cannot be trusted.
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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · 16d
The debate over the EU’s omnibus legislation will not satisfy everyone in Europe, neither will the legislative process nor the outcome. European policymakers need to have a frank conversation with their voters about the stakes that are in play and the realistic alternatives.
Regulation, Simplification, and European Values
Europeans need shared regulation if they are to achieve objectives related to prosperity, innovation, and competitiveness. And they need to achieve those objectives if they are to promote sustainability, equity, and justice in an increasingly hostile global environment.
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) @tepsa.bsky.social · 25d
🇨🇾 Our recommendations focus on the #Mediterranean agenda, #migration, & #competitiveness. ✍ Written by @erik-jones.bsky.social, Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik & Dario Cristiani. With an introduction from @richardyoungs.bsky.social & @nicolettapirozzi.bsky.social

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Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · 28d
Russische leiders doen altijd economische charme-offensieven naar het westen als ze aan de grond zitten
Mijn column in @nrc.nl

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Column | Trump is Poetins ideale prooi
Afgelopen week klonk er luid gejammer dat Europa was gepasseerd bij het Russisch-Amerikaanse ‘vredesplan’ voor Oekraïne. Europa was zijn stem op het wereldtoneel kwijt, schreef The New York Times. Eur...
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Helfried Carl @helfriedcarl.bsky.social · 28d
Die Lage ist dramatisch. Eine Sondersitzung des @europarl.europa.eu wäre angebracht, um eine Resolution zu beschließen, in der ein konkretes, zeitlich und ressourcenmäßig definiertes Maßnahmenpaket gefordert wird, um Europa zu schützen. www.falter.at/zeitung/2025...
Gastkommentar: „Friedensplan“ für die Ukraine – Europa auf der Speisekarte
Die EU muss der Ukraine, den USA, Russland und dem Rest der Welt zeigen, dass sie den Ernst der Lage erkannt hat – und auch endlich die nötigen Schlüsse daraus ziehen
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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · Nov 24
📚 #EUIdeas: Asst. Prof. @vanghel.bsky.social & @eui-schuman.bsky.social Dir. @erik-jones.bsky.social explain why the EU tends to enlarge & reform at the same time. 🔗 https://loom.ly/RvMXrq0

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Stanislas Jourdan @stanjourdan.bsky.social · Nov 18
Populism thrives not because voters are misled, but because they reject ‘institutionalism’: a world where rules embed the values of elites, while their own are sidelined. It’s a calculated choice for freedom over constraints.

Nice piece by @erik-jones.bsky.social

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Abandoning Institutionalism
People need to believe in society if they are going to believe in social institutions or institutionalism. Otherwise, they will embrace disintegration until they find a group they are willing to li…
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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Nov 14
The dollar's emergence as a global currency came unexpectedly; its disappearance may be unexpected as well.
How Long Will the Dollar Remain the World’s Currency?
The dollar may remain pre-eminent, but it could still lose its attractiveness as an infrastructure, and so also the ability to shape global finance.
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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Nov 11
The EU makes it possible for innovations in politics to be progressive and not just defensive. European democracy faces threats and challenges, but the EU gives Europeans a support structure that makes it possible to have greater hope in what they can accomplish.
The European Union as an Innovation in Politicsitle
Can the EU work better? Yes, but it will do so by working alongside and through member states to make their political and economic institutions more flexible, inclusive, and responsive.
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Veronica Anghel @vanghel.bsky.social · Nov 9
Many thanks to @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social for her excellent review of our short book
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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Nov 9
The challenge now is to recognize the steps being taken that will transform the internal market -- and other parts of the EU -- even more fundamentally. It is also to explain why there is no alternative. 2/2 encompass-europe.com/comment/euro...
Europe: mortal, yet resilient
The European Union can fail, but it doesn’t have to.  That is the message that you read across Emmanual Macron’s 2024 Sorbonne speech, in Mario Draghi’s 2024 report on…
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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Nov 9
I wouldn't count Europe out too quickly. I remember coming to Brussels in the late 1980s to study the single market. Even the staunchest advocates of the 1992 project underestimate just how much the EU would change over the next 15 years. 1/2 carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...
Betting on Europe
The rift between Brussels and Washington raises questions about which side will emerge stronger. The Europeans are laying the groundwork to enhance their power and have already proved their ability to...
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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Nov 9
Many thanks for sharing this! And also to @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social for writing such a generous piece!!

‘From Club to Commons’ is OPEN ACCESS and so freely available from Cambridge University Press here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Nov 9
Europeans need a vision for the future of their continent, but they cannot create such a vision without confronting Europe's past.
Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the European Project
Europe exists at the boundaries between nationalism and cosmopolitanism. The challenge is keeping the balance from tipping too far in either direction.
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Andrej Matisak @matisaksk.bsky.social · Nov 9
Transatlantic Crisis? Why This Time is Different, by @erik-jones.bsky.social
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Transatlantic Crisis? Why This Time is Different
The transatlantic relationship was never easy, but it was resilient. This time feels different. Two decades of analysis show why.
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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Nov 6
Plastic capitalism is a story of financial disruption so profound that we can no longer recognized how we got here or imagine the world as it was before.
You Think You Know Financial Disruption?
What is most striking while reading the book is how much we take this new world of plastic for granted. Anyone hoping to imagine the impact of digital currencies or distributed ledger technologies should read this book as an illustration of just how transformative financial innovation can be.
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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Nov 4
Europe is mortal for the same reason it is successful – because ‘Europe’ is an attractive organisation. The challenge now is to match that attractiveness with strong enough institutions and partners to ensure Europe is resilient.
Europe: Mortal, Yet Resilient
If Europe really is mortal, Europeans need to understand why.
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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · Nov 3
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Europe: mortal, yet resilient
The European Union can fail, but it doesn’t have to.  That is the message that you read across Emmanual Macron’s 2024 Sorbonne speech, in Mario Draghi’s 2024 report on…
encompass-europe.com

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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Nov 2
Why is the ‘crisis’ so much more real now than it was in decades past?  You don’t need to do a lot of reading to learn that the relationship has never been easy.  Somehow, this time feels different. The question is whether the EU can reorganize itself as an alternative to transatlantic partnership.
Transatlantic Crisis? Why This Time is Different
The transatlantic relationship was never easy, but it was resilient. This time feels different. Two decades of analysis show why.
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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Nov 1
The challenge for the incoming Cypriot Presidency is to help European policymakers to provide reassurance as well as encouragement. There is still much for the EU to accomplish in fulfilling their ambitious agenda, but Europe’s political leaders have already taken the crucial first steps.
Europe and the Choice between Drift and Mastery
The choice Europeans face is not between change and stability; it is – to borrow from Walter Lippmann’s writing about the United States in the early 20th Century – a choice between ‘drift and mastery’.
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Current History @currenthistory1.bsky.social · Oct 31
In our November special issue on anti-governance, @erik-jones.bsky.social explores the reasons for the revolt against institutions in advanced industrial democracies.
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Abandoning Institutionalism
The populist revolt against liberal democratic institutions in the United States and elsewhere is not necessarily an irrational backlash, but reflects many voters’ calculations of self-interest. Resis...
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) @tepsa.bsky.social · Oct 30
"The EU is already expanded; #enlargement is just about working with other countries to manage the system that we already have. The solution to the problem is Europe and the Presidency is determined to bring that path forward"

- @erik-jones.bsky.social, Director @eui-schuman.bsky.social

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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) @tepsa.bsky.social · Oct 30
Also presenting his chapter of the #TEPSARecommendations, “Europe and the choice between drift and master”, is @eui-schuman.bsky.social's @erik-jones.bsky.social

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Current History @currenthistory1.bsky.social · Oct 27
Our November special issue on Anti-Governance is out! Featuring @erik-jones.bsky.social on the abandonment of institutions, @cettamainwaring.bsky.social, Andonea Dickson & Thom Tyerman on hardline migration control, Gideon Lasco on medical populism…
Volume 124 Issue 865 | Current History | University of California Press
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) @tepsa.bsky.social · Oct 21
🇨🇾 Our TEPSA recommendations will be presented at the #CypriotPPC in a panel discussion with Deputy Minister Nicholas Ioannides, @nicolettapirozzi.bsky.social (@iaionline.bsky.social), and @erik-jones.bsky.social (@eui-schuman.bsky.social).

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