Pavol Jakubec
@pavoljakubec.bsky.social
Historian of International Relations & Diplomacy.
Scandinavia, Central Europe, Middle East, 20th Century
PhD University of Gothenburg, @charlesuni.cuni.cz alumnus
Scandinavia, Central Europe, Middle East, 20th Century
PhD University of Gothenburg, @charlesuni.cuni.cz alumnus
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Pavol Jakubec
@pavoljakubec.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Historian exploring Nordic & Central European history & diplomatic history, c. 1918-50. Research on the #WW2 governments-in-exile & on 🇨🇿–🇵🇱 inter-war border conflicts in the Carpathians. Interests include Historical IR, diplomacy, internationalism & Middle Eastern, particularly 🇦🇫 history.
Dear historians of #Germany, #Weimar 🇩🇪, #German #Diplomacy, #ForeignAffairs, #Bavaria, a collection of published documents re: #Bavarian #ForeignAffairs, anything between 1815 and 1933? #Bayern #Diplomatie #Geschichte @ghilondon.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @germanhistorydocs.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Dear historians of #Germany, #Weimar 🇩🇪, #German #Diplomacy, #ForeignAffairs, #Bavaria, a collection of published documents re: #Bavarian #ForeignAffairs, anything between 1815 and 1933? #Bayern #Diplomatie #Geschichte @ghilondon.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @germanhistorydocs.bsky.social
Redd Norgeskunnskap i utlandet/save the Scheme for Norwegian Studies Abroad - Sign the Petition! c.org/h24x8TLCyd
So, after 🇩🇰, 🇳🇴 is also cutting off the instruction of its language and culture abroad. A bad idea, 🇳🇴will loose scores of informal ambassadors (although one can always conclude that
So, after 🇩🇰, 🇳🇴 is also cutting off the instruction of its language and culture abroad. A bad idea, 🇳🇴will loose scores of informal ambassadors (although one can always conclude that
Sign the Petition
Redd Norgeskunnskap i utlandet/save the Scheme for Norwegian Studies Abroad
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November 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Redd Norgeskunnskap i utlandet/save the Scheme for Norwegian Studies Abroad - Sign the Petition! c.org/h24x8TLCyd
So, after 🇩🇰, 🇳🇴 is also cutting off the instruction of its language and culture abroad. A bad idea, 🇳🇴will loose scores of informal ambassadors (although one can always conclude that
So, after 🇩🇰, 🇳🇴 is also cutting off the instruction of its language and culture abroad. A bad idea, 🇳🇴will loose scores of informal ambassadors (although one can always conclude that
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In secret Senate testimony from October 1975, Gottlieb said the CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, saying “it was probably not a high pay-off program.” nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Top Secret Testimony of CIA’s MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2025 – The CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, according to the October 1975 U.S. Senate te...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
October 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In secret Senate testimony from October 1975, Gottlieb said the CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, saying “it was probably not a high pay-off program.” nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
PhD opportunity in Prague: www.universitas.cz/nabidka-prac...
Ph.D. position – Junior Researcher (Serbian Case, MEMCRIS Project)
Magazín vysokých škol
www.universitas.cz
October 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
PhD opportunity in Prague: www.universitas.cz/nabidka-prac...
As I´ve just discovered #skystorians, I dare re-post this: Can sb kindly help me with a bibliographical query? Any publications on the #Greek govt-in-exile in #WW2, beside Clogg´s & Papastratis'? I can read #Greek with some understanding but searches are difficult. @hellenicsociety.bsky.social?
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
As I´ve just discovered #skystorians, I dare re-post this: Can sb kindly help me with a bibliographical query? Any publications on the #Greek govt-in-exile in #WW2, beside Clogg´s & Papastratis'? I can read #Greek with some understanding but searches are difficult. @hellenicsociety.bsky.social?
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Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social
See the full vacancy text here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — PhD position - Benign Blockades? Blockades and sanctions, 1919-1939
The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0ft). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research programme BLOCKADE, wh...
werkenbij.uva.nl
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social
Can someone kindly help me with a bibliographical query? Any publications on the #Greek govt-in-exile in #WW2, beside Clogg´s & Papastratis'? I can read #Greek with some understanding but searches are difficult. @swwstudiesedin.bsky.social @ndh-network.bsky.social @greekhistory.bsky.social?
October 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Can someone kindly help me with a bibliographical query? Any publications on the #Greek govt-in-exile in #WW2, beside Clogg´s & Papastratis'? I can read #Greek with some understanding but searches are difficult. @swwstudiesedin.bsky.social @ndh-network.bsky.social @greekhistory.bsky.social?
Academia edu has been a rather troublesome knowledge-visibility platform for quite some time now. Their new steps to monetise research to which they´ve not contributed prompt me to leave.
I´m still on RG which, as far as I can tell, has a different business model.
I´m still on RG which, as far as I can tell, has a different business model.
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Academia edu has been a rather troublesome knowledge-visibility platform for quite some time now. Their new steps to monetise research to which they´ve not contributed prompt me to leave.
I´m still on RG which, as far as I can tell, has a different business model.
I´m still on RG which, as far as I can tell, has a different business model.
1,000 reads is not 100 citations. Not even 10. Still, not a bad attention score for an article discussing what some might consider, quite unjustly, a niche topic.
September 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
1,000 reads is not 100 citations. Not even 10. Still, not a bad attention score for an article discussing what some might consider, quite unjustly, a niche topic.
Earlier this month, a German historian who, although from a distance, had a great influence on my research on Second World War governments-in-exile, passed away. Requiescat in pacem.
www.collegium-carolinum.de/institut/akt...
www.collegium-carolinum.de/institut/akt...
Nachruf auf Detlef Brandes (1941–2025)
Das Collegium Carolinum trauert um sein Mitglied Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Detlef Brandes.
www.collegium-carolinum.de
September 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Earlier this month, a German historian who, although from a distance, had a great influence on my research on Second World War governments-in-exile, passed away. Requiescat in pacem.
www.collegium-carolinum.de/institut/akt...
www.collegium-carolinum.de/institut/akt...
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In the 1970s and 1980s Wimpy faced off with McDonald’s in a battle over what it meant to eat British.
⌛️ Last chance to read this History Matters for free
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
⌛️ Last chance to read this History Matters for free
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
Wimpy vs McDonald’s: The Battle of the Burgers
www.historytoday.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
In the 1970s and 1980s Wimpy faced off with McDonald’s in a battle over what it meant to eat British.
⌛️ Last chance to read this History Matters for free
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
⌛️ Last chance to read this History Matters for free
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
Happy to see a special issue dedicated to the #scholarship of Adam Watson. His works have profoundly influenced my take on #International #History and #Politics.
link.springer.com/journal/4131...
link.springer.com/journal/4131...
International Politics
International Politics is a journal that publishes scholarship on international relations, focusing on power struggles in international society.Explores a ...
link.springer.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Happy to see a special issue dedicated to the #scholarship of Adam Watson. His works have profoundly influenced my take on #International #History and #Politics.
link.springer.com/journal/4131...
link.springer.com/journal/4131...
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If you happen to be in Brussels on 16–17 September, join us at the ULB for the international conference “Influence and Propaganda: New Historiographical Perspectives”
repine.hypotheses.org/1216
repine.hypotheses.org/1216
Le 16 et 17 septembre aura lieu à Bruxelles une journée d'étude autour des questions de propagande, d'influence et du renouvellement des études historiographiques autour de ces sujets!
Programme : repine.hypotheses.org/1216
@vaidanik.bsky.social
Programme : repine.hypotheses.org/1216
@vaidanik.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
If you happen to be in Brussels on 16–17 September, join us at the ULB for the international conference “Influence and Propaganda: New Historiographical Perspectives”
repine.hypotheses.org/1216
repine.hypotheses.org/1216
Historians: tailoring a practical micro-course in #diplomatic #history for undergrads that extends beyond my period of expertise, I need help. Is there a compendium of key 19C diplomatic documents (treaties etc.) where these are rendered in English, not French?
August 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Historians: tailoring a practical micro-course in #diplomatic #history for undergrads that extends beyond my period of expertise, I need help. Is there a compendium of key 19C diplomatic documents (treaties etc.) where these are rendered in English, not French?
In the offing for quite some time now. If anything drives POTUS, it´s a childish preoccupation with his lasting legacy, which is currently in the making. There may be none greater accolade for a statesman in office than the #NobelPeacePrize.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump reportedly called Norwegian minister ‘out of the blue’ to ask about Nobel prize
US president told Norway’s finance minister he wants the Nobel peace prize, according to the Norwegian press
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
In the offing for quite some time now. If anything drives POTUS, it´s a childish preoccupation with his lasting legacy, which is currently in the making. There may be none greater accolade for a statesman in office than the #NobelPeacePrize.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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50 years of the Helsinki Final
Act 1975.
Having worked with “old guard” activists [a.k.a dissidents] in 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇨🇿🇸🇰🇨🇱🇦🇷🇧🇷 - I know personally how important the Helsinki Human Rights Declaration was to their work in the 1970s and 1980s.
That’s right the effect went beyond Europe and Canada and US.
Act 1975.
Having worked with “old guard” activists [a.k.a dissidents] in 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇨🇿🇸🇰🇨🇱🇦🇷🇧🇷 - I know personally how important the Helsinki Human Rights Declaration was to their work in the 1970s and 1980s.
That’s right the effect went beyond Europe and Canada and US.
The Helsinki accord was a masterpiece of European diplomacy. Fifty years on, we need its spirit more than ever | Kai Hebel and Richard Davy
The OSCE hasn’t stopped Putin’s aggression, but it has the potential to help broker a peace in Ukraine when the time is right, say authors Kai Hebel and Richard Davy
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
50 years of the Helsinki Final
Act 1975.
Having worked with “old guard” activists [a.k.a dissidents] in 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇨🇿🇸🇰🇨🇱🇦🇷🇧🇷 - I know personally how important the Helsinki Human Rights Declaration was to their work in the 1970s and 1980s.
That’s right the effect went beyond Europe and Canada and US.
Act 1975.
Having worked with “old guard” activists [a.k.a dissidents] in 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇨🇿🇸🇰🇨🇱🇦🇷🇧🇷 - I know personally how important the Helsinki Human Rights Declaration was to their work in the 1970s and 1980s.
That’s right the effect went beyond Europe and Canada and US.
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A short piece on Norwegian security policy: upnorth.eu/from-hygge-t...
From Hygge to High Alert: Norway’s Turn to Hard Security - The Northern European :: UpNorth
Few countries project a gentler international image than Norway, with its fjord tourism, free-range parenting and electric-vehicle leadership. Behind its pastoral reputation, however, Oslo...
upnorth.eu
July 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A short piece on Norwegian security policy: upnorth.eu/from-hygge-t...
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I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy of Lying Abroad by Carol Chillington Rutter from @manchesterup.bsky.social
I very much recommend it. Here are my comments…
#lyingabroad #diplomacy #tudor #stuartdynasty #ambassador
I very much recommend it. Here are my comments…
#lyingabroad #diplomacy #tudor #stuartdynasty #ambassador
July 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy of Lying Abroad by Carol Chillington Rutter from @manchesterup.bsky.social
I very much recommend it. Here are my comments…
#lyingabroad #diplomacy #tudor #stuartdynasty #ambassador
I very much recommend it. Here are my comments…
#lyingabroad #diplomacy #tudor #stuartdynasty #ambassador
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Bizarre! An MEP leaves her position after just 1 year (out of 5!), gives no real reason, and people hail her “legacy”.
Why run if you are not interested in the job? Or, if you were, why not explain what changed?
Why run if you are not interested in the job? Or, if you were, why not explain what changed?
Left-wing MEP Rackete resigns from European Parliament - Euractiv
Left group says transition may take weeks as administrative process begins.
www.euractiv.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Bizarre! An MEP leaves her position after just 1 year (out of 5!), gives no real reason, and people hail her “legacy”.
Why run if you are not interested in the job? Or, if you were, why not explain what changed?
Why run if you are not interested in the job? Or, if you were, why not explain what changed?
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The European papers of Prof. Geremek have been made available at @eui-euarchives.bsky.social. It was accompanied by a seminar that discussed research paths of East-West collaborations before 1989 and 2004/07 enlargements @eui-history.bsky.social @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social
More 👉 shorturl.at/iP49A
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Seminar honours contribution of Bronisław Geremek to European integration
The inventory of the archives of Bronisaw Geremek is now available for consultation in the database of the Historical Archives of the European Union The openi
shorturl.at
July 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The European papers of Prof. Geremek have been made available at @eui-euarchives.bsky.social. It was accompanied by a seminar that discussed research paths of East-West collaborations before 1989 and 2004/07 enlargements @eui-history.bsky.social @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social
More 👉 shorturl.at/iP49A
More 👉 shorturl.at/iP49A
Echoing recent PM #Fico´s praise for regimes getting things done bc they don't get disturbed by elections, 25% of voters declare a preference for a single party regime, a #poll from #Slovakia shows. Are there #polls asking about this from other #EuropeanUnion member states?
June 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Echoing recent PM #Fico´s praise for regimes getting things done bc they don't get disturbed by elections, 25% of voters declare a preference for a single party regime, a #poll from #Slovakia shows. Are there #polls asking about this from other #EuropeanUnion member states?