Jokubas Salyga
@jokubassalyga.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Political Science at UT RGV
Associate Editor @gpejournal.bsky.social
Political economist exploring post-communist Europe, capitalism and social change.
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Associate Editor @gpejournal.bsky.social
Political economist exploring post-communist Europe, capitalism and social change.
🌐 jokubassalyga.lt
All views here are personal.
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Jokubas Salyga
@jokubassalyga.bsky.social
· Sep 28
👋 Giving Bluesky a try, let’s see how it goes.
If you’d like some light reading on the historical political economy of the Baltic states, East-Central Europe and more, here are a few of my recent publications 👇
Happy to share links if you can’t access them.
If you’d like some light reading on the historical political economy of the Baltic states, East-Central Europe and more, here are a few of my recent publications 👇
Happy to share links if you can’t access them.
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Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
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Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
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We have a new, excellent post up by @donnie-m.bsky.social on Estonia as a space of economic experimentation in the late Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...
A Laboratory of Economic Reform: Estonian Experiments with Agro-Industrial Associations in the Era of Late Socialism
Donald MorardIn 1965, the French Communist journal Démocratie Nouvelle, in its special issue on the “young, advanced republic” of Estonia, described the occupied Baltic country as a “laboratory” for t...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We have a new, excellent post up by @donnie-m.bsky.social on Estonia as a space of economic experimentation in the late Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...
👋 Giving Bluesky a try, let’s see how it goes.
If you’d like some light reading on the historical political economy of the Baltic states, East-Central Europe and more, here are a few of my recent publications 👇
Happy to share links if you can’t access them.
If you’d like some light reading on the historical political economy of the Baltic states, East-Central Europe and more, here are a few of my recent publications 👇
Happy to share links if you can’t access them.
September 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
👋 Giving Bluesky a try, let’s see how it goes.
If you’d like some light reading on the historical political economy of the Baltic states, East-Central Europe and more, here are a few of my recent publications 👇
Happy to share links if you can’t access them.
If you’d like some light reading on the historical political economy of the Baltic states, East-Central Europe and more, here are a few of my recent publications 👇
Happy to share links if you can’t access them.
I'm pleased to serve as Division Chair for Politics, Economics and Environment at the 30th Biennial AABS Conference, to be held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Next year’s theme explores the genealogies of Baltic diasporas worldwide.
More at: aabs-balticstudies.org/aabs-2026-at...
Next year’s theme explores the genealogies of Baltic diasporas worldwide.
More at: aabs-balticstudies.org/aabs-2026-at...
August 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I'm pleased to serve as Division Chair for Politics, Economics and Environment at the 30th Biennial AABS Conference, to be held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Next year’s theme explores the genealogies of Baltic diasporas worldwide.
More at: aabs-balticstudies.org/aabs-2026-at...
Next year’s theme explores the genealogies of Baltic diasporas worldwide.
More at: aabs-balticstudies.org/aabs-2026-at...
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Our Midterm Workshop 'Critical Political Economy at the Time of Monsters' has come to a close
Many thanks to all our amazing participants for the great time together!
And a special thanks to @teivo.bsky.social and Silke Trommer for welcoming us in beautiful Helsinki!
See you all again next year!
Many thanks to all our amazing participants for the great time together!
And a special thanks to @teivo.bsky.social and Silke Trommer for welcoming us in beautiful Helsinki!
See you all again next year!
August 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Our Midterm Workshop 'Critical Political Economy at the Time of Monsters' has come to a close
Many thanks to all our amazing participants for the great time together!
And a special thanks to @teivo.bsky.social and Silke Trommer for welcoming us in beautiful Helsinki!
See you all again next year!
Many thanks to all our amazing participants for the great time together!
And a special thanks to @teivo.bsky.social and Silke Trommer for welcoming us in beautiful Helsinki!
See you all again next year!
I’ll be giving a talk this July as part of the summer lecture series “The Baltic Sea as a Scene for Turning Points, Crises and Possibilities” at the University of Greifswald.
Looking forward to taking part in the program and hearing from others working on the region.
Looking forward to taking part in the program and hearing from others working on the region.
May 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I’ll be giving a talk this July as part of the summer lecture series “The Baltic Sea as a Scene for Turning Points, Crises and Possibilities” at the University of Greifswald.
Looking forward to taking part in the program and hearing from others working on the region.
Looking forward to taking part in the program and hearing from others working on the region.
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New issue out now!
Digital Fragmentations, Technological Sovereignty and New Perspectives on the Global Digital Political Economy
Guest Edited by @maximilianiras.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
Digital Fragmentations, Technological Sovereignty and New Perspectives on the Global Digital Political Economy
Guest Edited by @maximilianiras.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
March 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
New issue out now!
Digital Fragmentations, Technological Sovereignty and New Perspectives on the Global Digital Political Economy
Guest Edited by @maximilianiras.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
Digital Fragmentations, Technological Sovereignty and New Perspectives on the Global Digital Political Economy
Guest Edited by @maximilianiras.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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🚨My recent co-authored article on the EU's "puzzling" and "contradictory" integration promotion strategy in the MENA region is now published in @gpejournal.bsky.social
Below is a brief thread summarising its main arguments.
Below is a brief thread summarising its main arguments.
November 19, 2024 at 8:06 AM
🚨My recent co-authored article on the EU's "puzzling" and "contradictory" integration promotion strategy in the MENA region is now published in @gpejournal.bsky.social
Below is a brief thread summarising its main arguments.
Below is a brief thread summarising its main arguments.
Call for Participation: How Financial Interests Shape Democracy - Lessons from Central Eastern Europe’s Democratic Transition
The workshop will take place in a hybrid format on 17 June 2025 at King’s College London, (Strand Campus, Bush House NE1.02).
Deadline: 4 April 2025.
The workshop will take place in a hybrid format on 17 June 2025 at King’s College London, (Strand Campus, Bush House NE1.02).
Deadline: 4 April 2025.
March 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Call for Participation: How Financial Interests Shape Democracy - Lessons from Central Eastern Europe’s Democratic Transition
The workshop will take place in a hybrid format on 17 June 2025 at King’s College London, (Strand Campus, Bush House NE1.02).
Deadline: 4 April 2025.
The workshop will take place in a hybrid format on 17 June 2025 at King’s College London, (Strand Campus, Bush House NE1.02).
Deadline: 4 April 2025.