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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 · 7d
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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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · 3h
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 · 2d
Many thanks to @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social for her excellent review of our short book
Read Open Access 🔗 bit.ly/4hD90rh

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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 3d
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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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · 5d
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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Paul Adamson @padamson.bsky.social · 7d
encompass-europe.com/comment/euro... @erik-jones.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social @vanghel.bsky.social
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 · 9d
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 · 10d
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 · 10d
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 · 12d
"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 · 12d
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 · 14d
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 · 21d
🇨🇾 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).

Find out more 👉 tepsa.eu/policy-advic...

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Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · Oct 12
For our first panel at #TheBodrumRT Milica Delević, @economistmeg.bsky.social, @erik-jones.bsky.social & Denis Redonnet examined “Global economic fragmentation”, chaired by @cergrant.bsky.social

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Carnegie Europe @carnegieeurope.bsky.social · Sep 17
🎧 | Global events are unfolding at a speed that has outpaced Europe's capacity to act.

On #EuropeInsideOut, @rmomtaz.bsky.social, @rosabalfour.bsky.social, & @erik-jones.bsky.social explore what it will take for the EU to regain strategic agency.

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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) @tepsa.bsky.social · Aug 21
2.5%? 5%? More? 🧐 What does #Trump actually expects of Europe when it comes to #security & #defence?

➡️ Find out in our latest #Europechats episode on the past, present & future of transatlantic relations

🔗 youtu.be/MtGQ3WP1CEs?...

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Valentin Kreilinger @vkreilinger.bsky.social · Aug 20
In the 2nd #FitFor35 volume, edited by @gvonsydow.bsky.social, @patricia-wadensjo.bsky.social and me, eight leading experts share their views on EU enlargement and reform:

@erik-jones.bsky.social, Enlargement and Institutional Reform: How to make a credible security commitment

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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) @tepsa.bsky.social · Aug 12
Is 🇪🇺 free-loading off the USA❓ Not so, argues @erik-jones.bsky.social in our latest #EuropeChats 👉 check out the episode where he explains how Europe and 🇺🇸 both BENEFITED from their pre-Trump tariffs economic relationship

FULL EPISODE 🔗 tepsa.eu/tepsa-videos... @eui-schuman.bsky.social

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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Aug 8
I would be happy to show them around and answer any questions. Please just put them in touch.

Enjoy the holidays!

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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Aug 8
You are welcome to suggest you colleague come down and learn more about what we are doing. Seriously. We have a lot that is relevant they would find of interest. The list is long and runs from energy and climate through major geopolitical risks europeangovernanceandpolitics.eui.eu/global-risks...
Global Risks to the EU
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Erik Jones @erik-jones.bsky.social · Jul 22
I will deliver a session at the executive education programme “Global Risk Management” in Florence, 3-7 November 2025. This is a unique joint programme between the Florence School of Transnational Governance and SDA Bocconi.
Visit the course site here: www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
#ExEdEui
Applications are now open for the executive course “Global Risk Management”
The second edition of the executive course on Global Risk Management, jointly organised by the Florence School of Transnational Governance and SDA Bocconi Sch
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Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · Jul 17
My favorite article of the week? This one, by @erik-jones.bsky.social.
Europeans are good at taking a raft of small decisions that lead to big shifts, he writes. Underestimate them at your peril, even in their current fight with Washington.

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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...
carnegieendowment.org

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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) @tepsa.bsky.social · Jul 8
#NewVideo‼️ In our latest #EuropeChats we sit down for a discussion with @erik-jones.bsky.social on the past, present and future of 🇪🇺🇺🇸 relations and how #Trump's second term in office changes everything...
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How has TRUMP changed transatlantic relations? | EuropeChats Episode 29
YouTube video by Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
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Andreas Umland @umland.bsky.social · Jul 4
Job for Ukrainian citizen:

Deputy Director of the European Think Tank Office in Kyiv

Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies @sceeus-ui.bsky.social

The Swedish Institute of International Affairs @uisweden.bsky.social
Deputy Director – European Think Tank Office, Kyiv, Ukraine - Utrikespolitiska institutet
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) is establishing a European Think Tank Office (ETTO) in Kyiv through its Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS). This Office will ...
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) @tepsa.bsky.social · Jul 4
🇺🇸 is waking up to their #IndependenceDay 👉 meanwhile over in 🇪🇺 leaders are wondering about the future of transatlantic relations

💡 Check out our latest book for 40+ national perspectives on this, including one by @eui-schuman.bsky.social Director @erik-jones.bsky.social

🔗 tepsa.eu/book-on-the-...