Catherine E. De Vries

Catherine E. de Vries

@catherinedevries.bsky.social

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Vice Dean and Professor at the IE School of Economics, Politics and Global Affairs at IE University, Madrid (she/her)

www.catherinedevries.eu

Respect the Marble Substack: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Catherine E. de Vries is a Dutch political scientist. She is Dean of Diversity & Inclusion and Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University. She is known for her research on European politics, including political behaviour, comparative European politics and political economy. She is also a columnist for the Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad. .. more

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Sep 4

📢 Launching the Etched in Marble series on my Substack today.
 💡 Conversations with writers + thinkers about how ideas last.

First guest: Simon Kuper, FT columnist & author of Football Against the Enemy & Chums

🔗 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

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Etched in Marble: Simon Kuper on Clarity, Memory, and Why Writing Still Matters

Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for reading Sameen, I really appreciate it!

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 4d

Stay tuned for pieces of the Long Carve to drop over the weeks ahead (I’ll try every week, but cannot promise it!).

Thank you for reading.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 4d

This takes time, practice and above all our attention.

And it’s hard & payoffs uncertain.

Or as Hemingway allegedly put it: “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 4d

Over the weeks ahead, I will write about the different stages: how an idea forms, how it gets protected, how to face the blank page, how to build a structure that can hold doubt, how to choose what to leave out, how to revise without losing our voice, when to share it with others.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 4d

I have come to think of writing less as technique and more as a way of living with thought.

A long writing project is just that practice, stretched across time.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 4d

Time management culture tells us to optimize.

This series is about something far harder: commitment and attention The practice of staying with it.

The art of leaning into the resistance.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 4d

That’s the starting point of a new series: The Long Carve.

A series about choosing one idea and staying with it long enough for it to change you.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 4d

So much writing advice assumes abundance: more output, faster drafts, better systems.

But long projects live in a different universe.

They don’t ask “how fast can you go?” but “what are you willing to give up?”

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 4d

Over the holidays I read the book Four Thousand Weeks. www.oliverburkeman.com/fourthousand...

It reminded me that the real question for writing isn’t how to manage time better, but what we choose to give it to.

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Four Thousand Weeks | Oliver Burkeman

www.oliverburkeman.com

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 4d

After a short hiatus, Respect the Marble is back:

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/introducin...

Introducing a new series The Long Carve:

about how to decide which ideas deserves our long-term writing attention,

& how we learn to keep writing when the outcome is unknown and uncertain.

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Introducing The Long Carve: What Deserves Your Four Thousand Weeks?

A series about choosing and staying with one idea long enough for it to change you

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 6d

I hear the new Dutch coalition agreement includes this (translation):

“We are also investigating the introduction of an electoral threshold and a new electoral system for the House of Representatives, in which preferential votes are given more weight.”

Fascinating to see how this plays out.

Reposted by Catherine E. De Vries, Tom van der Meer, Tom Louwerse

Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 8d

Lees dit interview met Steven Levitsky, een van de meest vooraanstaande democratie-onderzoekers., over de staat van de democratie in de VS. „Ik vond mezelf altijd een doemdenker. Maar het is veel, veel erger dan ik had verwacht.”
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

‘Ik vond mezelf altijd een doemdenker. Maar het is veel, veel erger dan verwacht’, zegt Harvard-politicoloog Levitsky over Trump

Steven Levitsky | politicoloog: In tegenstelling tot zijn eerste termijn is er dit keer niemand in de Verenigde Staten die Donald Trump kan tegenhouden, ziet hoogleraar politicologie Steven Levitsky. ...

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Reposted by Catherine E. De Vries

Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 9d

Very thoughtful reflection on Europe's Trump dilemma by @catherinedevries.bsky.social

Trump wants our attention. Let’s stop falling for his geopolitical clickbait | Catherine De Vries

Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning, says political scientist Catherine De Vries

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Catherine E. De Vries

Sony Kapoor @sonykapoor.bsky.social · 9d

Amid the doom & crazy coming from the other side of the Atlantic, last year I suggested that #Trump's excesses would help catalyse a #GreatGlobalRebalancing away from the #US

One year on, LISTEN to how this has accelerated & why this is wonderful news 4 RoW

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The Great Global Rebalancing: How Trump's America is Losing its Grip on the World's Capital with Sony Kapoor

Podcast Episode · The David McWilliams Podcast · 27/01/2026 · 45m

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Reposted by Anne Rasmussen, Catherine E. De Vries, Patrick Präg , and 2 more Anne Rasmussen, Catherine E. De Vries, Patrick Präg, Johannes Breuer, Roman Senninger

Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 10d

My colleague Kevin Munger asked me and a bunch of editors to sit and think through AI and peer review. Our take:

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We envision an increased (!) involvement of humans in the evaluation of social science.

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 10d

🤣 love this!

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 10d

🙏🙏🙏🙏

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you!

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 10d

Dank Joost!

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 10d

Dank Mark!

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you Jacob!

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Mark Duursma @markduursma.bsky.social · 10d

“A Europe that is always reacting is never planning”

Insightful op-ed by @catherinedevries.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on the fight for attention, and how Europe should respond to Trump

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump wants our attention. Let’s stop falling for his geopolitical clickbait | Catherine De Vries

Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning, says political scientist Catherine De Vries

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Catherine E. De Vries, Markus Haverland

Joost van Spanje @joostvanspanje.bsky.social · 10d

Great @theguardian.com piece by @catherinedevries.bsky.social:

"attention itself has become a strategic battlefield of int'l politics.
Attention wars aren't won by reacting faster.
They're won by deciding what deserves focus.
Europe (..) needs to outplan" Trump.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump wants our attention. Let’s stop falling for his geopolitical clickbait | Catherine De Vries

Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning, says political scientist Catherine De Vries

www.theguardian.com

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 10d

Dank Matthijs!

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you for sharing, will read them with great interest!

Reposted by Catherine E. De Vries

Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 10d

Great op-ed by @catherinedevries.bsky.social on how attention has become a geopolitical weapon. And why Europe should stop falling for Trump’s “geopolitical clickbait” (love the term):
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...