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Gabriel Siles-Brügge
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Professor in Global Governance & Public Policy, @uob-policystudies.bsky.social | Co-edit @jcms-eu.bsky.social | IPE, EU Studies, public policy, trade, Brexit, health | 🇪🇸 & 🇩🇪 | In @ucu.org.uk | Own views | He/Him.
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Gabriel Siles-Brügge @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social · Jun 11
Check out this blog post on the death of 'Global Britain', which draws on our open access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social on the performance of trade policy:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
ukandeu.bsky.social UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · Jun 11
"[The] UK-US trade deal illustrates what has become a common feature of contemporary trade politics. Economic considerations have given way to the desire to perform sovereignty for its own sake."

Tony Heron, @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social & Darrin McDonald on trade deals👇

ukandeu.ac.uk/whats-happen...
What’s happened to ‘Global Britain’? - UK in a changing Europe
Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge, and Darrin McDonald argue that trade deals agreed by the UK government since Brexit are limited in their...
ukandeu.ac.uk
gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
For anyone Dutch-speaking who's interested in #Brexit and the supposed reset in EU-UK relations, here's my two cents for @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social's 'Summer Series' on how the #TCA could be used to promote progressive causes on both sides of the Channel.
August 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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uaces.bsky.social
Do you have a knack for creating engaging content and building online communities?

UACES is seeking a part-time Social Media and PR Assistant with a focus on journals. The deadline to apply is Wednesday 6 August 2025.

More information on our website: www.uaces.org/social-media...

#UACES #job
July 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
An absolute pleasure to host @mcopelov.bsky.social for his insightful & provocative talk. Lots for EU Studies to learn from IPE! 🎙️A recording will be posted soon and the text 📝 of the lecture will appear next year in the pages of the journal. Thanks also to @ces-europe.bsky.social for hosting!
jcms-eu.bsky.social Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) @jcms-eu.bsky.social · Jul 2
At last week’s #JCMS Annual Lecture 2025, @mcopelov.bsky.social offered a powerful take on Europe’s role in a shifting world.

Thank you to Prof. Copelovitch for his insight, to @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social for the intro, and to all who joined us for the @ces-europe.bsky.social conference.
July 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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jcms-eu.bsky.social
🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨

Volume 63, Issue 4 of JCMS is out now! 🌍

Explore key debates on EU funding, Euroscepticism, foreign policy and more.

Edited by @cardwellpj.bsky.social, @rguerrina.bsky.social, and @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social 📚

Read the new issue here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965...
July 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
✍️ If you are a scholar working in EU Studies and comparative regionalism, please do send us your best work! We're a multi-disciplinary, methodologically and theoretically pluralist journal open to the full range of rigorous work in our scope. We also publish policy commentaries.
jcms-eu.bsky.social Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) @jcms-eu.bsky.social · Jun 23
Looking to publish your research on the #EuropeanUnion and comparative regionalism? 🌍

Join leading scholars from around the world in contributing to JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. 📚

Learn more about how to submit your next article at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
June 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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ukandeu.bsky.social
"[The] UK-US trade deal illustrates what has become a common feature of contemporary trade politics. Economic considerations have given way to the desire to perform sovereignty for its own sake."

Tony Heron, @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social & Darrin McDonald on trade deals👇
What’s happened to ‘Global Britain’? - UK in a changing Europe
Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge, and Darrin McDonald argue that trade deals agreed by the UK government since Brexit are limited in their...
ukandeu.ac.uk
June 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
Check out this blog post on the death of 'Global Britain', which draws on our open access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social on the performance of trade policy:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
ukandeu.bsky.social UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · Jun 11
"[The] UK-US trade deal illustrates what has become a common feature of contemporary trade politics. Economic considerations have given way to the desire to perform sovereignty for its own sake."

Tony Heron, @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social & Darrin McDonald on trade deals👇

ukandeu.ac.uk/whats-happen...
What’s happened to ‘Global Britain’? - UK in a changing Europe
Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge, and Darrin McDonald argue that trade deals agreed by the UK government since Brexit are limited in their...
ukandeu.ac.uk
June 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by Gabriel Siles-Brügge
jcms-eu.bsky.social
JCMS is pleased to announce that from 2027, there will be two special issues published per year. 📚

We’re currently inviting proposals for the Spring and Autumn 2027 Special Issues.

For more details, see the full call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
May 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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jcms-eu.bsky.social
New JCMS Issue! 🚨

Editors @cardwellpj.bsky.social, @rguerrina.bsky.social and @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social have curated another insightful issue exploring new perspectives on European Studies. Congrats to all the authors for their dedication to the field! 📚

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965...
May 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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🚨 New #OpenAccess publication in @ripejournal.bsky.social, together with Tony Heron (York) and Darrin McDonald (Leeds Beckett).

Do have a read by clicking on the link below! ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Performing trade: ‘Global Britain’ and the UK’s post-Brexit free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand
Why did the United Kingdom (UK) prioritise post-Brexit free trade agreements (FTAs) with Australia and New Zealand, despite the almost negligible economic benefits on offer? We address this puzzle ...
www.tandfonline.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Reposted by Gabriel Siles-Brügge
jcms-eu.bsky.social
Weekly round-up! 📚

It has been a busy month for JCMS, with new and insightful research being published every week.

Here are some articles you may have missed ➡️ bit.ly/3RAuaKv

@cardwellpj.bsky.social @rguerrina.bsky.social @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
🚨 New #OpenAccess publication in @ripejournal.bsky.social, together with Tony Heron (York) and Darrin McDonald (Leeds Beckett).

Do have a read by clicking on the link below! ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Performing trade: ‘Global Britain’ and the UK’s post-Brexit free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand
Why did the United Kingdom (UK) prioritise post-Brexit free trade agreements (FTAs) with Australia and New Zealand, despite the almost negligible economic benefits on offer? We address this puzzle ...
www.tandfonline.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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acadsocsciences.bsky.social
New Fellow @tonihaastrup.bsky.social is Chair in Global Politics at official-uom.bsky.social! Her research explores power hierarchies in global politics & encompasses a range of topics within international studies incl. feminist foreign policies & global inequalities. acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
April 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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cardwellpj.bsky.social
Beyond delighted to be elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences! Truly an honour, and I look forward to supporting the work of the Academy. Congratulations too to my @jcms-eu.bsky.social co-editors @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social @rguerrina.bsky.social & UACES chair @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
acadsocsciences.bsky.social Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · Apr 1
New Fellow @cardwellpj.bsky.social is Professor of Law at kingscollegelondon.bsky.social! His research encompasses EU external relations & migration and he has contributed evidence to the UK & Canadian Parliaments on EU law, migration & sanctions. See the full list ➡️ acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
April 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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uaces.bsky.social
Congratulations to:

- Professor Christopher Hill
- Professor @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
- Professor Helena Farrand Carrapico
- Professor @cardwellpj.bsky.social
- Professor @rguerrina.bsky.social
- Professor @tonihaastrup.bsky.social

Who have been awarded @acadsocsciences.bsky.social Fellowships!
April 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
It is an absolutely privilege to be joining the Academy of Social Sciences, which does such important work to promote these disciplines at a time where they face really challenging times. It is doubly rewarding to be joining at the same time as my fellow @jcms-eu.bsky.social editors.
April 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
These consultancies remind me of Cornish wreckers in the c18th, luring ships onto the rocks. Unis think they can see a lighthouse with harbour, but ooh no it isn't. They thought they were being sold safety, but in fact they've been handed a doomsday device. And they don't even know it! (3/3) /END
February 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
By loading all the functions on the centre, you increase the data stress there to intolerable levels, and it collapses. You also ramp up costs that the thinner and thinner 'lower' offer cannot meet. You do quality and reputational harm that is likely impossible to repair. (2/2)
February 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
One underreported facet of the Great University Crisis is the contribution of a small number of consultancy firms who recommend:
*Centralise functions
*Cut small courses
*Reduce student options
*Abolish loads of joint awards
*Chop staff headcount
This is *exactly* what you must not do. (1/3)
February 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
It's really saddening to have to post this about my own institution, but the University of Bristol is planning to embark on a cost-cutting exercise that threatens the viability of scholarship in the arts, humanities and social sciences: www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
'The University of Bristol has embarked on a path like a death spiral'
UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus
www.bristol247.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
Of course. That's how the Cost Allocation Fallacy works. An error so basic an A-Level Business Studies student would write about it in an exercise.
March 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
The university death spiral is everywhere, and for everyone: they're all just on a convoy into the same black hole. Oxbridge, LSE and Imperial excepted, they must all *necessarily and inevitably* end up crushed to the size of an Oxo cube if we go on like this.
www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
'The University of Bristol has embarked on a path like a death spiral'
UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus
www.bristol247.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
It's really saddening to have to post this about my own institution, but the University of Bristol is planning to embark on a cost-cutting exercise that threatens the viability of scholarship in the arts, humanities and social sciences: www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
'The University of Bristol has embarked on a path like a death spiral'
UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus
www.bristol247.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
It's a real pleasure for us at @jcms-eu.bsky.social to be publishing @maxkoch.bsky.social's incisive wake up call for scholars of and practitioners within the EU policymaking sphere. And if you publish on #postgrowth and #socio-ecological transitions in an EU context, do send us your manuscripts!
March 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
At #ISA2025? Join us today, Monday 3 March, @1.45pm for this panel on knowledge production in global politics!
gabrielsilesb.bsky.social Gabriel Siles-Brügge @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social · Mar 2
At #ISA2025 and interested in the epistemic politics shaping the #trade/#health governance nexus ⛴️⚕️, quantification and the global governance of #poverty 🔢, or civil society participation in the governance of #AI 🧠🖥️? Come to our panel tomorrow! @justynabandola.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM