Kilian Spandler
@kilianspandler.bsky.social
Associate Professor, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg & NAWA Ulam Fellow, Polish Academy of Sciences. International Relations, global governance, populism, security.
🌎 Using the example of humanitarian assistance in Southeas Asia, I show how the notion of agonistic engagement can help us grapple with the democratic quality of governance networks.
May 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🌎 Using the example of humanitarian assistance in Southeas Asia, I show how the notion of agonistic engagement can help us grapple with the democratic quality of governance networks.
🤷 In such loose forms of governance, norms guiding joint action are inevitably interpreted and enacted in multiple, even conflicting ways.
📚 I engage with different pluralist theories to explore how we can embrace this diversity rather than stifling it through ostensibly democratic institutions
📚 I engage with different pluralist theories to explore how we can embrace this diversity rather than stifling it through ostensibly democratic institutions
May 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
🤷 In such loose forms of governance, norms guiding joint action are inevitably interpreted and enacted in multiple, even conflicting ways.
📚 I engage with different pluralist theories to explore how we can embrace this diversity rather than stifling it through ostensibly democratic institutions
📚 I engage with different pluralist theories to explore how we can embrace this diversity rather than stifling it through ostensibly democratic institutions
Reposted by Kilian Spandler
So once again, the narrative is more complicated than Vance bad, EU good. Vance most certainly is bad. But the case for the EU is arguable, given its adoption of the far-right's agenda on migration and its willingness to ignore many of Meloni's excesses in return for "good behavior" on Ukraine.
February 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
So once again, the narrative is more complicated than Vance bad, EU good. Vance most certainly is bad. But the case for the EU is arguable, given its adoption of the far-right's agenda on migration and its willingness to ignore many of Meloni's excesses in return for "good behavior" on Ukraine.