Matthew D. Stephen
@mstephen.bsky.social
Prof of IPE @ Helmut Schmidt Uni Hamburg, IR stuff, 🇳🇿, 🇩🇪, DFG Heisenberg Fellow, formerly WZB Berlin, rando
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Matthew D. Stephen
@mstephen.bsky.social
· Aug 27
The Diffusion of Global Power and the Decline of Global Governance | Ethics & International Affairs | Cambridge Core
The Diffusion of Global Power and the Decline of Global Governance
doi.org
New, somewhat bleak, piece from me on the decline of global governance:
doi.org/10.1017/S089...
Part of a Roundtable on Global Governance in Hard Times with @benjaminfaude.bsky.social, @ninareiners.bsky.social, @yoramhaftel.bsky.social, @stephofmann.bsky.social, John Karlsrud, & Julia Morse
doi.org/10.1017/S089...
Part of a Roundtable on Global Governance in Hard Times with @benjaminfaude.bsky.social, @ninareiners.bsky.social, @yoramhaftel.bsky.social, @stephofmann.bsky.social, John Karlsrud, & Julia Morse
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Harvard students forced to sit through absurd webinars using IHRA definition of antisemitism (as at other schools) is both outrageous and ineffective.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
December 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Harvard students forced to sit through absurd webinars using IHRA definition of antisemitism (as at other schools) is both outrageous and ineffective.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
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Becoming as independent from the US as possible needs to be among of EVERY European countries' top priorities
Excellent read by @davekeating.substack.com
davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-can...
Excellent read by @davekeating.substack.com
davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-can...
The US can destroy a European's life with the swipe of a pen
This week's US sanctions against European lawmakers and privacy activists is a major escalation. And it shows the dangers of Europe relying on American economic infrastructure.
davekeating.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Becoming as independent from the US as possible needs to be among of EVERY European countries' top priorities
Excellent read by @davekeating.substack.com
davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-can...
Excellent read by @davekeating.substack.com
davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-can...
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Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
December 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
The North remembers
“They [The Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia] don’t have to pay — but we will make them pay for it [politically],” said a senior European official
EU agrees €90bn loan to Ukraine after frozen Russian asset plan fails
Money to be borrowed against bloc’s budget after leaders fail to agree on proposal using Moscow’s funds
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The North remembers
desk reject!
a man in a red shirt and black shorts is standing on a basketball court
ALT: a man in a red shirt and black shorts is standing on a basketball court
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
desk reject!
What would Rihanna say?
Nuclear umbrella is acute metaphor, no prompting involved here 🏖️ ☔
Nuclear umbrella is acute metaphor, no prompting involved here 🏖️ ☔
Logical consequence: 75% of Germans think the country should thus seek a nuclear umbrella from France and the United Kingdom.
December 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
What would Rihanna say?
Nuclear umbrella is acute metaphor, no prompting involved here 🏖️ ☔
Nuclear umbrella is acute metaphor, no prompting involved here 🏖️ ☔
Unless something has changed...
December 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Unless something has changed...
I know we're all cynical and everything has to be framed as a perfidious strategy but Hospital Ships in disaster zones are a good thing actually
Like "oh no, the Chinese are coming with disaster relief! So cunning!"
Like "oh no, the Chinese are coming with disaster relief! So cunning!"
"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean
A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I know we're all cynical and everything has to be framed as a perfidious strategy but Hospital Ships in disaster zones are a good thing actually
Like "oh no, the Chinese are coming with disaster relief! So cunning!"
Like "oh no, the Chinese are coming with disaster relief! So cunning!"
I didn't think it was possible but they just gave another reason to boycott Eurovision
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete
Decision not to hold vote on Israel’s participation comes in spite of several broadcasters calling for its exclusion
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I didn't think it was possible but they just gave another reason to boycott Eurovision
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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There is one week left to submit your paper proposal for our workshop 'Global Governance in Times of Disruption' at next year's @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions of Workshops. Join us in Innsbruck!
⚙️ #ecprjs26 Workshop directors 🎬
@benjaminfaude.bsky.social & @yoramhaftel.bsky.social
💡 Seeks Papers exploring how global governance institutions respond to disruption and disruptors in world politics
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⌛ Submit by 10 Dec buff.ly/YnDgwfh
#Polisky #CallforPapers
@benjaminfaude.bsky.social & @yoramhaftel.bsky.social
💡 Seeks Papers exploring how global governance institutions respond to disruption and disruptors in world politics
✔️ @ecprsgir.bsky.social endorsed
⌛ Submit by 10 Dec buff.ly/YnDgwfh
#Polisky #CallforPapers
Global Governance in Times of Disruption
Joint Sessions of Workshops, 7 – 10 April 2026, University of Innsbruck
buff.ly
December 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
There is one week left to submit your paper proposal for our workshop 'Global Governance in Times of Disruption' at next year's @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions of Workshops. Join us in Innsbruck!
China wants to reshape the international order. But how?
My new article looks at how China uses transnational policy forums to reshape international order beyond traditional multilateralism.
Open access at The Pacific Review:
doi.org/10.1080/0951...
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
My new article looks at how China uses transnational policy forums to reshape international order beyond traditional multilateralism.
Open access at The Pacific Review:
doi.org/10.1080/0951...
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
Beyond multilateralism: China’s international order building through transnational policy forums
As China has risen, it has engaged in the creation and expansion of new international institutions and initiatives. Alongside founding multilateral institutions, China has also constructed a range ...
doi.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
China wants to reshape the international order. But how?
My new article looks at how China uses transnational policy forums to reshape international order beyond traditional multilateralism.
Open access at The Pacific Review:
doi.org/10.1080/0951...
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
My new article looks at how China uses transnational policy forums to reshape international order beyond traditional multilateralism.
Open access at The Pacific Review:
doi.org/10.1080/0951...
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
I've said it before and I'll say it again: damn you HeinOnline. Damn you to hell
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again: damn you HeinOnline. Damn you to hell
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It's interesting to watch the are we the baddies meme just sail over someone's head in real time.
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
Explore this post and more from the JewsOfConscience community
www.reddit.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It's interesting to watch the are we the baddies meme just sail over someone's head in real time.
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Thrilled to see our latest paper published in @iojournal.bsky.social! 🥳
"Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump" co-authored with Tobias Pforr (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and @fabianpape.bsky.social 🙂
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
"Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump" co-authored with Tobias Pforr (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and @fabianpape.bsky.social 🙂
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Thrilled to see our latest paper published in @iojournal.bsky.social! 🥳
"Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump" co-authored with Tobias Pforr (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and @fabianpape.bsky.social 🙂
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
"Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump" co-authored with Tobias Pforr (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and @fabianpape.bsky.social 🙂
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
First day everyone's heard of Cloudfare, amiright?
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
First day everyone's heard of Cloudfare, amiright?
When her professor emailed her feedback on an AI-written paper, she refused to open it. “It’s wasting his time because he’s editing a fucking machine,” Gwen said. “Whatever he has to say is meaningless to me anyway, because it’s not my writing.”
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thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
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thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
When her professor emailed her feedback on an AI-written paper, she refused to open it. “It’s wasting his time because he’s editing a fucking machine,” Gwen said. “Whatever he has to say is meaningless to me anyway, because it’s not my writing.”
💯
thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
💯
thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
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Great opportunity at top German universities
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Great opportunity at top German universities
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Tolerating int'l law & norm violations enables their destruction. They must be clearly condemned & punished b/c the stakes are so high: "international law could seem “remote, esoteric, formal & complicated” but stressed prohibition on the use of force by states had made the world much more peaceful"
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Tolerating int'l law & norm violations enables their destruction. They must be clearly condemned & punished b/c the stakes are so high: "international law could seem “remote, esoteric, formal & complicated” but stressed prohibition on the use of force by states had made the world much more peaceful"
In a field in England
October 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In a field in England
"Even the most advanced systems make small mistakes or slightly misunderstand directions, requiring a human to carefully review their work and make changes where needed."
Sounds a lot like working with student assistants...
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Sounds a lot like working with student assistants...
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.
www.theatlantic.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
"Even the most advanced systems make small mistakes or slightly misunderstand directions, requiring a human to carefully review their work and make changes where needed."
Sounds a lot like working with student assistants...
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Sounds a lot like working with student assistants...
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...