Eva Michaels
@evamichaels.bsky.social
Asst Prof in Intelligence & Security Uni Leiden & Senior Fellow @ibei.org | European foreign & security policy | warning intelligence | realist constructivism | background in Political Science, International Relations, War Studies
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Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
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November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
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I've been waiting for the @warontherocks.bsky.social summer reading lists every year - and truly honoured that this year's list includes my recommendations as well: Mornings in Yenin (Susan Abulhawa) and The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan).
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The 2025 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List - War on the Rocks
Forget the algorithm — this list was created by the humans who bring you War on the Rocks. Here, they share some of their favorite works of fiction. Kerry
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June 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I've been waiting for the @warontherocks.bsky.social summer reading lists every year - and truly honoured that this year's list includes my recommendations as well: Mornings in Yenin (Susan Abulhawa) and The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan).
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"In every longer term way, this appeasement of Trump solves nothing." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Without dignity, leaders fell at Trump’s feet in The Hague – and for what? All Nato’s key problems remain | Martin Kettle
The relationship with him is still volatile, the Ukraine strategy still unclear and Europe needs to ensure its collective defence, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
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June 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"In every longer term way, this appeasement of Trump solves nothing." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I'm kinda relieved that my Intelligence & Policymaking course is over
June 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I'm kinda relieved that my Intelligence & Policymaking course is over
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OK, so maybe a Nobel Ceasefire Prize, after all? But a very gold and shiny one. And need to do it fast, before we have to bomb again the nuclear program that just got forever obliterated
June 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
OK, so maybe a Nobel Ceasefire Prize, after all? But a very gold and shiny one. And need to do it fast, before we have to bomb again the nuclear program that just got forever obliterated
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17 Tote, rund 280 Verletzte nach russischem Angriff auf einen Zug. Hier kaum noch eine Meldung wert.
Zucken wir nur noch mit den Achseln?
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Zucken wir nur noch mit den Achseln?
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‘Dead and wounded everywhere’ — Russian attack on Dnipro kills at least 17, injures almost 280
Russia launched a deadly missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on June 24, striking civilian infrastructure and a passenger train, local officials reported.
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June 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
17 Tote, rund 280 Verletzte nach russischem Angriff auf einen Zug. Hier kaum noch eine Meldung wert.
Zucken wir nur noch mit den Achseln?
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Zucken wir nur noch mit den Achseln?
kyivindependent.com/russia-strik...
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June 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
✍️ If you are a scholar working in EU Studies and comparative regionalism, please do send us your best work! We're a multi-disciplinary, methodologically and theoretically pluralist journal open to the full range of rigorous work in our scope. We also publish policy commentaries.
"Haffner was 24 when he wrote Parting in just a few weeks in October and November 1932, just months before the Nazis came to power." And here it is, published first in German and soon in English more than nine decades later.. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Unknown novel by writer who charted Hitler’s rise becomes German bestseller
Sebastian Haffner’s love story set in final days of Weimar Republic published more than nine decades after it was written
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June 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"Haffner was 24 when he wrote Parting in just a few weeks in October and November 1932, just months before the Nazis came to power." And here it is, published first in German and soon in English more than nine decades later.. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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We welcome the agreement of a new EU - Canada Security and Defence Partnership 👏
Canada is one of the oldest & most trusted EU allies! Together, we can work for a brighter future based on shared values & international law. 🇪🇺🇨🇦
Canada is one of the oldest & most trusted EU allies! Together, we can work for a brighter future based on shared values & international law. 🇪🇺🇨🇦
June 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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What a time to be alive. The president of the United States doing battle damage assessment via sketchy OSINT accounts. I had blocked this particular account some time ago.
June 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
What a time to be alive. The president of the United States doing battle damage assessment via sketchy OSINT accounts. I had blocked this particular account some time ago.
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Here's a 2013 throwback:
June 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Here's a 2013 throwback:
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Correct. When Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in May 2018, he made it the policy of the United States that every country should have an active nuclear weapons program.
Today he made it clear they need to develop functional nuclear weapons as soon as possible. Nothing else can prevent a U.S. attack.
Today he made it clear they need to develop functional nuclear weapons as soon as possible. Nothing else can prevent a U.S. attack.
Among many other things this is a proliferation nightmare. The lesson learned will be never negotiate with the United States.
June 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Correct. When Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in May 2018, he made it the policy of the United States that every country should have an active nuclear weapons program.
Today he made it clear they need to develop functional nuclear weapons as soon as possible. Nothing else can prevent a U.S. attack.
Today he made it clear they need to develop functional nuclear weapons as soon as possible. Nothing else can prevent a U.S. attack.
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June 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Come do a PhD at @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social. You could be supervised by some of my fantastic colleagues while working in a vibrant, pluralistic & highly engaged research environment.
These positions are fully salaried & come with a research budget of 30k SEK a year fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
These positions are fully salaried & come with a research budget of 30k SEK a year fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD students in War Studies
The Department of War Studies conducts research and education in the subject of War Studies. The department consists of about 160 employees and has about 1000 students and participants in commissioned
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June 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Come do a PhD at @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social. You could be supervised by some of my fantastic colleagues while working in a vibrant, pluralistic & highly engaged research environment.
These positions are fully salaried & come with a research budget of 30k SEK a year fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
These positions are fully salaried & come with a research budget of 30k SEK a year fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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A take on what Trump might do on Iran! Get it while it's still hot! danieldrezner.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...
Thoughts on Iran, Israel, and Trump
Buckle up.
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June 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A take on what Trump might do on Iran! Get it while it's still hot! danieldrezner.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...
In a Dutch university they would put three desks in there, perhaps four 😂
June 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
In a Dutch university they would put three desks in there, perhaps four 😂
This is so wholesome and made my day
June 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This is so wholesome and made my day
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"This is truly unprecedented. Preemptive nationwide deployment of the military is the very opposite of using the military as a “last resort.” ... it should raise a bright red flag for anyone concerned with the future of American democracy." www.justsecurity.org/114282/memor...
Trump’s Memorandum Authorizing Military Domestic Deployment
"The Memorandum ... raises many of the same concerns as an Insurrection Act invocation would, and that could end up looking quite similar in practice."
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June 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"This is truly unprecedented. Preemptive nationwide deployment of the military is the very opposite of using the military as a “last resort.” ... it should raise a bright red flag for anyone concerned with the future of American democracy." www.justsecurity.org/114282/memor...
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"The real threat posed by generative AI is not that it will eliminate work on a mass scale, rendering human labour obsolete. It is that, left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities."
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst? | Verso Books
In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Once again, a c
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June 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"The real threat posed by generative AI is not that it will eliminate work on a mass scale, rendering human labour obsolete. It is that, left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities."
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US intelligence worker arrested for ‘trying to leak secrets to Germany’
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US intelligence worker arrested for ‘trying to leak secrets to Germany’
Nathan Laatsch has been accused of trying to leak state secrets prior to the meeting between President Trump and Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office
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June 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
US intelligence worker arrested for ‘trying to leak secrets to Germany’
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"Every time we go to the polls, politicians will say that every election matters and every vote counts. They will be right"
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Every Election Is Now Existential
A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world.
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June 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"Every time we go to the polls, politicians will say that every election matters and every vote counts. They will be right"
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81 years ago in Normandy, the heroes of the Allied forces changed the course of global history.
Their bravery, their sacrifice, their courage brought freedom.
Europe is forever grateful. We remember them. We honour them.
#DDay
Their bravery, their sacrifice, their courage brought freedom.
Europe is forever grateful. We remember them. We honour them.
#DDay
June 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
81 years ago in Normandy, the heroes of the Allied forces changed the course of global history.
Their bravery, their sacrifice, their courage brought freedom.
Europe is forever grateful. We remember them. We honour them.
#DDay
Their bravery, their sacrifice, their courage brought freedom.
Europe is forever grateful. We remember them. We honour them.
#DDay
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Zelensky has promised to stop the war between Trump and Musk in 24 hours.
June 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Zelensky has promised to stop the war between Trump and Musk in 24 hours.