ERC project DISINTEGRATION
@disintegrationerc.bsky.social
ERC-funded research project on "The Mass Politics of Disintegration" (DISINTEGRATION), run by @stefwalter.bsky.social and hosted at @ipz.bsky.social, explores responses to international cooperation challenges.
More info: www.disintegration.ch
More info: www.disintegration.ch
Great summary of the core findings of the DISINTEGRATION @erc.europa.eu project!
How the rising backlash against international institutions can spread
Research explored how to contain the spread of popular sentiment against international cooperation beyond borders.,,,European Commission
cordis.europa.eu
October 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Great summary of the core findings of the DISINTEGRATION @erc.europa.eu project!
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Great reporting on the contagion risks of the Trump presidency, drawing in parts on insights from the @disintegrationerc.bsky.social project.
Is America contagious?
Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.
www.motherjones.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Great reporting on the contagion risks of the Trump presidency, drawing in parts on insights from the @disintegrationerc.bsky.social project.
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(5/5) This supports findings from this other great @jeppjournal.bsky.social article by Marco Martini and @stefwalter.bsky.social on how Brexit shapes nationalist rhetoric in media coverage outside the UK. doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Learning from precedent: how the British Brexit experience shapes nationalist rhetoric outside the UK
The liberal international order has recently come under increasing nationalist pressure, evidenced by a rise in nationalist demands to withdraw from international institutions. A growing literature...
doi.org
July 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(5/5) This supports findings from this other great @jeppjournal.bsky.social article by Marco Martini and @stefwalter.bsky.social on how Brexit shapes nationalist rhetoric in media coverage outside the UK. doi.org/10.1080/1350...
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(1/5) My article Disintegration and Party Competition is out in the latest issue of @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! I ask how parties in other member states reacted to #Brexit. Do #Eurosceptic challengers frame it as an example to follow? Or do they instead row back on ‘hard’ demands to #leave the EU?
▶️ @tommccraehunter.bsky.social on how British parties framed Brexit
Disintegration and party competition: evidence from parliamentary speeches on Brexit
How do political parties in the European Union (EU) react to disintegration bids from a member state? This question is important, as scholars have argued that framing by elites (particularly Eurosc...
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July 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/5) My article Disintegration and Party Competition is out in the latest issue of @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! I ask how parties in other member states reacted to #Brexit. Do #Eurosceptic challengers frame it as an example to follow? Or do they instead row back on ‘hard’ demands to #leave the EU?
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So thanks to the ERWG members - @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social, @catherinedevries.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social & @markkayser.bsky.social - for being such a great group to work with.
And I am excited to continue our work with the entire awesome @epssnet.bsky.social Council!
And I am excited to continue our work with the entire awesome @epssnet.bsky.social Council!
June 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
So thanks to the ERWG members - @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social, @catherinedevries.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social & @markkayser.bsky.social - for being such a great group to work with.
And I am excited to continue our work with the entire awesome @epssnet.bsky.social Council!
And I am excited to continue our work with the entire awesome @epssnet.bsky.social Council!
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Back home after an eventful weekend - I am proud of what we have created (even if we had hoped to arrive at a more consensual way forward).
Our work in the EPSA reform working group has been intense. Still, doing this with such an engaged, friendly & creative group has been a privilege and treat.
Our work in the EPSA reform working group has been intense. Still, doing this with such an engaged, friendly & creative group has been a privilege and treat.
🌍 European Political Science Society is officially launched (EPSS)!
🗓️ June 26, 2025
📍EPSS is a not-for-profit & member-led association for political science in Europe
👉 Visit us: epssnet.org
Some updates 👇🏽
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🗓️ June 26, 2025
📍EPSS is a not-for-profit & member-led association for political science in Europe
👉 Visit us: epssnet.org
Some updates 👇🏽
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EPSS – European Political Science Society
In June 2025, the EPSA Governing Council voted to establish the not-for-profit organisation European Political Science Society (EPSS). Join our listserv and follow this website for more information and join us next summer for Belfast 2026.
epssnet.org
June 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Back home after an eventful weekend - I am proud of what we have created (even if we had hoped to arrive at a more consensual way forward).
Our work in the EPSA reform working group has been intense. Still, doing this with such an engaged, friendly & creative group has been a privilege and treat.
Our work in the EPSA reform working group has been intense. Still, doing this with such an engaged, friendly & creative group has been a privilege and treat.
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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
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We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
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(1/3) I am excited to be on 2 great panels at #EPSA in Madrid! On Thursday 26 June (09:30 - 11:10, Room 0A.06) I present joint work with @stefwalter.bsky.social on Parties and IOs on the panel ‘Text analysis in the Study of IR’ chaired by @andduer.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
(1/3) I am excited to be on 2 great panels at #EPSA in Madrid! On Thursday 26 June (09:30 - 11:10, Room 0A.06) I present joint work with @stefwalter.bsky.social on Parties and IOs on the panel ‘Text analysis in the Study of IR’ chaired by @andduer.bsky.social
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Highly innovative design with fine-grained implementation: truly recommend the read !
DISINTEGRATION publ #9 @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social show key events in UK Brexit politics affected EU attitudes in other countries: foreign events can influence voters’ attitudes in other countries and events like Brexit have systemic consequences! doi.org/10.1177/1465...
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May 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Highly innovative design with fine-grained implementation: truly recommend the read !
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Much of my research in the last six years has revolved around the @disintegrationerc.bsky.social project.
I am so proud of my team and all we have achieved, and grateful to the @erc.europa.eu for making this possible.
If you want to know what we did, this thread is for you:
I am so proud of my team and all we have achieved, and grateful to the @erc.europa.eu for making this possible.
If you want to know what we did, this thread is for you:
Today marks the final day of the DISINTEGRATION project, a project on the mass politics of disintegration generously funded by the @erc.europa.eu .
We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found:
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We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found:
1/20
April 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Much of my research in the last six years has revolved around the @disintegrationerc.bsky.social project.
I am so proud of my team and all we have achieved, and grateful to the @erc.europa.eu for making this possible.
If you want to know what we did, this thread is for you:
I am so proud of my team and all we have achieved, and grateful to the @erc.europa.eu for making this possible.
If you want to know what we did, this thread is for you:
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Congratulations to the DISINTEGRATION team! And because our world still remains mostly integrated, it is fitting that in several hours, Cornell students taking Introduction to Comparative Politics with me will be discussing some of its outputs (with this "feature slide" of today's assigned author)
April 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Congratulations to the DISINTEGRATION team! And because our world still remains mostly integrated, it is fitting that in several hours, Cornell students taking Introduction to Comparative Politics with me will be discussing some of its outputs (with this "feature slide" of today's assigned author)
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Great thread on an important, ambitious research project led by the brilliant @stefwalter.bsky.social - with insights and findings that are more relevant than ever given the challenges facing all major international organisations
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Today marks the final day of the DISINTEGRATION project, a project on the mass politics of disintegration generously funded by the @erc.europa.eu .
We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found:
1/20
We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found:
1/20
April 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Great thread on an important, ambitious research project led by the brilliant @stefwalter.bsky.social - with insights and findings that are more relevant than ever given the challenges facing all major international organisations
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To celebrate the successful conclusion of the DISINTEGRATION project, we are creating a thread that presents all published research completed in the project.
We'll post one paper a day – stay tuned!
We'll post one paper a day – stay tuned!
Our project produced – and continues to produce – a lot of output, both on various aspects of the accommodation dilemma framework, and on broader (non-)cooperation dynamics.
In the coming weeks, we will post a link to each article and short summaries.
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In the coming weeks, we will post a link to each article and short summaries.
14/20
April 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
To celebrate the successful conclusion of the DISINTEGRATION project, we are creating a thread that presents all published research completed in the project.
We'll post one paper a day – stay tuned!
We'll post one paper a day – stay tuned!
Today marks the final day of the DISINTEGRATION project, a project on the mass politics of disintegration generously funded by the @erc.europa.eu .
We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found:
1/20
We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found:
1/20
April 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Today marks the final day of the DISINTEGRATION project, a project on the mass politics of disintegration generously funded by the @erc.europa.eu .
We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found:
1/20
We celebrate with a thread on all we have done and found:
1/20
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Seeing all the current and former DISINTEGRATION team members again was wonderful. It makes me so happy and proud to hear about their learnings from the project and their exciting plans going forward. What a great group, and a lasting legacy of the DISINTEGRATION project!
What a pleasure to reflect on the learnings, achievements and ways forward from the DISINTEGRATION project with former and current team members and our wonderful advisory board at Kloster Fischingen.
Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.
Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.
April 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Seeing all the current and former DISINTEGRATION team members again was wonderful. It makes me so happy and proud to hear about their learnings from the project and their exciting plans going forward. What a great group, and a lasting legacy of the DISINTEGRATION project!
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Thank you to @stefwalter.bsky.social and the rest of the DISINTEGRATION team for an inspiring workshop on the timely issue of challenges to international organisations - in beautiful Swiss surroundings!
What a pleasure to reflect on the learnings, achievements and ways forward from the DISINTEGRATION project with former and current team members and our wonderful advisory board at Kloster Fischingen.
Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.
Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.
April 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Thank you to @stefwalter.bsky.social and the rest of the DISINTEGRATION team for an inspiring workshop on the timely issue of challenges to international organisations - in beautiful Swiss surroundings!
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Many thanks to @stefwalter.bsky.social, the DISINTEGRATION project team, and fellow advisors @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @dustintingley.bsky.social for two days of stimulating discussions and fun company in the Swiss countryside!
What a pleasure to reflect on the learnings, achievements and ways forward from the DISINTEGRATION project with former and current team members and our wonderful advisory board at Kloster Fischingen.
Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.
Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.
April 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Many thanks to @stefwalter.bsky.social, the DISINTEGRATION project team, and fellow advisors @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @dustintingley.bsky.social for two days of stimulating discussions and fun company in the Swiss countryside!
What a pleasure to reflect on the learnings, achievements and ways forward from the DISINTEGRATION project with former and current team members and our wonderful advisory board at Kloster Fischingen.
Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.
Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.
April 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
What a pleasure to reflect on the learnings, achievements and ways forward from the DISINTEGRATION project with former and current team members and our wonderful advisory board at Kloster Fischingen.
Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.
Great presentations, a quiz, beer tasting and many ideas for next steps.
Newest publication from the @erc.europa.eu project @disintegrationerc.bsky.social .
Every once in a while, we write articles we truly care about.
This is one of them, and I am so happy and proud to see it published at ISQ:
This is one of them, and I am so happy and proud to see it published at ISQ:
Responding to Unilateral Challenges to International Institutions
Abstracts. How do international institutions respond to unilateral challenges by its member states, such as non-compliance, blocking of reforms, renegotiat
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April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Newest publication from the @erc.europa.eu project @disintegrationerc.bsky.social .
Graph of the month:
As the DISINTEGRATION project enters its final month, here is its core theoretical contribution:
A framework that predicts that the relative size of cooperation gains at risk and contagion risks shape the extent to which states accommodate non-cooperation by others or not.
As the DISINTEGRATION project enters its final month, here is its core theoretical contribution:
A framework that predicts that the relative size of cooperation gains at risk and contagion risks shape the extent to which states accommodate non-cooperation by others or not.
April 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Graph of the month:
As the DISINTEGRATION project enters its final month, here is its core theoretical contribution:
A framework that predicts that the relative size of cooperation gains at risk and contagion risks shape the extent to which states accommodate non-cooperation by others or not.
As the DISINTEGRATION project enters its final month, here is its core theoretical contribution:
A framework that predicts that the relative size of cooperation gains at risk and contagion risks shape the extent to which states accommodate non-cooperation by others or not.
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The workshop featured an impressive line-up of contributions, including results from the organizers' @erc.europa.eu funded projects: the @disintegrationerc.bsky.social project of @stefwalter.bsky.social and the #EUROBORD project of Frank Schimmelfennig.
March 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The workshop featured an impressive line-up of contributions, including results from the organizers' @erc.europa.eu funded projects: the @disintegrationerc.bsky.social project of @stefwalter.bsky.social and the #EUROBORD project of Frank Schimmelfennig.
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It was an amazing experience to exchange about current challenges to the #EU 🇪🇺 and its transformations above the Lago Maggiore last week! 🤓🏔️
March 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It was an amazing experience to exchange about current challenges to the #EU 🇪🇺 and its transformations above the Lago Maggiore last week! 🤓🏔️
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What an amazing workshop and line-up – thanks a lot, @stefwalter.bsky.social and Frank Schimmelfennig, for this great opportunity to exchange about current challenges to the EU and its transformations above the Lago Maggiore!
Concluding three inspiring and insightful days of talking research and thinking about EU integration, its boundaries, and integration and disintegration dynamics with a fantastic set of people on Monte Verità.
March 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
What an amazing workshop and line-up – thanks a lot, @stefwalter.bsky.social and Frank Schimmelfennig, for this great opportunity to exchange about current challenges to the EU and its transformations above the Lago Maggiore!
Concluding three inspiring and insightful days of talking research and thinking about EU integration, its boundaries, and integration and disintegration dynamics with a fantastic set of people on Monte Verità.
March 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Concluding three inspiring and insightful days of talking research and thinking about EU integration, its boundaries, and integration and disintegration dynamics with a fantastic set of people on Monte Verità.
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Thanks to @stefwalter.bsky.social & Frank Schimmelfennig for organizing a fab workshop (what a location). So much great work in progress on Europe and even some ~hopeful thoughts on the future 💙
@hayleypring.bsky.social @acalacino.bsky.social and I are extra grateful for the comments on our paper!
@hayleypring.bsky.social @acalacino.bsky.social and I are extra grateful for the comments on our paper!
March 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Thanks to @stefwalter.bsky.social & Frank Schimmelfennig for organizing a fab workshop (what a location). So much great work in progress on Europe and even some ~hopeful thoughts on the future 💙
@hayleypring.bsky.social @acalacino.bsky.social and I are extra grateful for the comments on our paper!
@hayleypring.bsky.social @acalacino.bsky.social and I are extra grateful for the comments on our paper!