Christian Kloetzer
@ckloetzer.bsky.social
PhD student in Political Studies at the University of Milan (UniMi)
Working on: electoral behavior, cleavage transformation, European radical-right electorates
But interested in, and posting about, all sorts of things.
Working on: electoral behavior, cleavage transformation, European radical-right electorates
But interested in, and posting about, all sorts of things.
Shoutout to the great people at @bagss-bamberg.bsky.social for hosting and flawlessly organizing this year’s edition of the Joint Doctoral Conference. It was a pleasure to attend!
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Shoutout to the great people at @bagss-bamberg.bsky.social for hosting and flawlessly organizing this year’s edition of the Joint Doctoral Conference. It was a pleasure to attend!
And for G7 foreign ministers + Ms. Kallas it is “urgent” that the deceased hostages are returned, while continued Israeli withholding of humanitarian aid for living Palestinians is merely a matter of “concern”. It violates not only international law, but also the EU-Israel agreement from July.
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
And for G7 foreign ministers + Ms. Kallas it is “urgent” that the deceased hostages are returned, while continued Israeli withholding of humanitarian aid for living Palestinians is merely a matter of “concern”. It violates not only international law, but also the EU-Israel agreement from July.
Not sure if harmless kitchenware from Esselunga or a new European far-right party has dropped…
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Not sure if harmless kitchenware from Esselunga or a new European far-right party has dropped…
The lesson Israel takes from Gaza is that it can break all international norms and laws and still enjoy privileged relations with the West. So why stop? Europe’s policy towards Israel sacrificed rules and laws for a twisted version of stability, and it will achieve neither.
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
The lesson Israel takes from Gaza is that it can break all international norms and laws and still enjoy privileged relations with the West. So why stop? Europe’s policy towards Israel sacrificed rules and laws for a twisted version of stability, and it will achieve neither.
Lebanon is stalling the implementation of the ceasefire, says the country that has not even fully withdrawn from Lebanese territory despite committing to it and is responsible for the “vast majority” of ceasefire violations (quote from UNIFIL).
November 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Lebanon is stalling the implementation of the ceasefire, says the country that has not even fully withdrawn from Lebanese territory despite committing to it and is responsible for the “vast majority” of ceasefire violations (quote from UNIFIL).
My worry was that the Gaza ceasefire agreement would play out like the agreement between Israel and Lebanon, with Israel unilaterally deciding which terms it adheres to at which point in time, and with continued systematic violations of international law. This seems to be what is happening now.
October 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My worry was that the Gaza ceasefire agreement would play out like the agreement between Israel and Lebanon, with Israel unilaterally deciding which terms it adheres to at which point in time, and with continued systematic violations of international law. This seems to be what is happening now.
And this is nothing less than an Israeli minister interfering in the internal affairs of a supposed ally. The irony is of course that in only one of the two countries religious fundamentalist groups control the levers of power, and the UK is not that one.
October 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
And this is nothing less than an Israeli minister interfering in the internal affairs of a supposed ally. The irony is of course that in only one of the two countries religious fundamentalist groups control the levers of power, and the UK is not that one.
Het lijkt me ook niet heel verstandig voor een staatsdragende partij als de VVD om zich keer op keer te laten terugfluiten door de rechterlijke macht. Geeft de indruk dat rechters het land besturen, en dat gevoel kunnen anderen handig exploiteren.
September 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Het lijkt me ook niet heel verstandig voor een staatsdragende partij als de VVD om zich keer op keer te laten terugfluiten door de rechterlijke macht. Geeft de indruk dat rechters het land besturen, en dat gevoel kunnen anderen handig exploiteren.
If I was the Emir of Qatar and saw the lackluster response from my primary security guarantor to an aerial bombardment of my capital, the first thing I'd do is to give a very friendly call to Beijing.
September 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
If I was the Emir of Qatar and saw the lackluster response from my primary security guarantor to an aerial bombardment of my capital, the first thing I'd do is to give a very friendly call to Beijing.
Frankfurt’s attempt to arbitrarily ban a pro-Palestine demonstration is another. Good that the courts intervened, but their ruling reads like an accusation of political malpractice against the municipality.
August 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Frankfurt’s attempt to arbitrarily ban a pro-Palestine demonstration is another. Good that the courts intervened, but their ruling reads like an accusation of political malpractice against the municipality.
All members of the outgoing Dutch coalition stand to lose in October (though some more than others). I think this illustrates what @tbiebricher.bsky.social said on a podcast recently: mainstream parties can't join a coalition with a radical-right party and hope to pin its failure on them.
July 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
All members of the outgoing Dutch coalition stand to lose in October (though some more than others). I think this illustrates what @tbiebricher.bsky.social said on a podcast recently: mainstream parties can't join a coalition with a radical-right party and hope to pin its failure on them.
For some reason, Tunisian President Kais Saied always looks like he's about to do a Darth Vader force choke on whoever he's talking to.
July 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
For some reason, Tunisian President Kais Saied always looks like he's about to do a Darth Vader force choke on whoever he's talking to.
It’s good to see that in the US, with political correctness out of the window, the famed marketplace of ideas is finally flourishing again and delivering us quality public debate on the most critical issues of our time with unprecedented sharpness and focus.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 AM
It’s good to see that in the US, with political correctness out of the window, the famed marketplace of ideas is finally flourishing again and delivering us quality public debate on the most critical issues of our time with unprecedented sharpness and focus.
This is smart. Between U.S. intel casting doubt on the success of the attack on Fordow, and the Iranians saying they sustained bad damage, Trump will believe the latter.
June 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is smart. Between U.S. intel casting doubt on the success of the attack on Fordow, and the Iranians saying they sustained bad damage, Trump will believe the latter.
Not to forget that, exactly like in Gaza, Merz and other Western leaders ascribe intentions and openness to negotiations to the Israeli government that its members publicly deny.
June 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Not to forget that, exactly like in Gaza, Merz and other Western leaders ascribe intentions and openness to negotiations to the Israeli government that its members publicly deny.
The level of detachment in these statements is absurd. Israel is aggressively destabilizing the Middle East and burying any notion of a rules-based order along the way, and European chancelleries are talking as if it’s a mere skirmish in some remote Pacific Island nation that does not affect us.
June 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The level of detachment in these statements is absurd. Israel is aggressively destabilizing the Middle East and burying any notion of a rules-based order along the way, and European chancelleries are talking as if it’s a mere skirmish in some remote Pacific Island nation that does not affect us.
As usual, Germany in the list of shame when it comes to protecting Palestinians.
May 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
As usual, Germany in the list of shame when it comes to protecting Palestinians.
That's a good outcome, and enormously meaningful that the push came from a member state that's traditionally strongly pro-Israel.
May 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
That's a good outcome, and enormously meaningful that the push came from a member state that's traditionally strongly pro-Israel.
From the Guardian on Labour's immigration policy, and it speaks to an obvious point: most people do not live at the border, and so do not perceive notable effects from reducing net migration in a politically meaningful timeframe (even it came down to an impossible zero).
May 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
From the Guardian on Labour's immigration policy, and it speaks to an obvious point: most people do not live at the border, and so do not perceive notable effects from reducing net migration in a politically meaningful timeframe (even it came down to an impossible zero).
Yes, it’s famously difficult to be a Christian in the home of the Roman Catholic church.
May 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Yes, it’s famously difficult to be a Christian in the home of the Roman Catholic church.
The helpless rage on one side and the stoic calm on the other remind me a bit of the early Brexit negotiations, when the UK gov't was convinced the EU was about to fold any moment now.
April 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The helpless rage on one side and the stoic calm on the other remind me a bit of the early Brexit negotiations, when the UK gov't was convinced the EU was about to fold any moment now.