Johan Adriaensen
johanadriaensen.bsky.social
Johan Adriaensen
@johanadriaensen.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Maastricht University
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Does the EU's ambition to become a geopolitical actor change the EU itself? 🌍

@johanadriaensen.bsky.social, Sophie Vanhoonacker & Igor Sarkissian propose a framework to analyse how adaptive pressures on the EU's institutional setup and sketch where these changes are already visible. 👇
The effect of geopoliticisation on the EU’s polity: exploring institutional power shifts
The aspiration of the EU to pursue a geopolitical agenda has raised both interest and scepticism within the academic and policy community. The ability to adopt and implement an ambitious geopolitic...
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July 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
What is to happen to the US FTA’s after Recession Day? The US clearly violates its existing agreements, including those with long-standing allies like Israel, South-Korea, and Australia. So how can they respond? (thread). (1/6)
April 3, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Just for the optics alone, it would have been good for the EU and Ukraine to schedule a parallel meeting today to discuss how they see an end to the war. That way, when proper talks may start, there are two rivalling plans and the EU/Ukraine would not enter negotiations on the backfoot.
In the meantime the US and Russia meet to discuss how to end the Ukraine war — without the Ukrainians and Europeans.
February 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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🌍 Are you interested in international agreements negotiated by the EU?
🇪🇺 I am planning to submit a panel on the EU as a negotiator of international agreements at EUIA 2025
Panel abstract below ⬇
📑 If you are interested, send me a paper abstract (300 words max) by 30/09!
📧 marine.bardou@uclouvain.be
September 17, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Yesterday was a big day - our book w. @christopherhuggins.bsky.social on #TeachingEuropeanUnionPolitics is out!

👍Fantastic contributors from across the continent+many disciplines
👍A textbook for teachers - helping us (re)think how we teach
👍actually affordable?!

www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/tea...
January 10, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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📣Call for Workshops!

Join us in Maastricht for the Annual Political Science Workshops of the Low Countries, aka #Politicologenetmaal!🎉

📝 Info & submit: rb.gy/4vj6ji
⏰ Submission deadline: January 15, 2024
📆 Conference dates: June 13-14, 2024

@VPW_be @NKWP_NL
December 7, 2023 at 7:10 AM
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"The politics of understaffing international organisations: the EU Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC)" (co-authored with @johanadriaensen.bsky.social) has now found a permanent home @europeansecurity.bsky.social in Vol 32 Issue 4: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (open access)
The politics of understaffing international organisations: the EU Military Planning and Conduct Capa...
Previous research has shown that staffing of international organisations (IOs) is politics. Understaffing of IOs, by contrast, has hardly received scholarly attention. By drawing upon the principal...
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November 23, 2023 at 4:25 PM