Join us tomorrow for a Career Talk (hybrid) & Networking @gvagrad.bsky.social in the context of the #GenevaForumonEastAsia2025, organized by the Contemporary East Asia Studies Initiative (CEAS)❗

Un plaisir d'être intervenu dans Objectif Monde L'hebdo aux côtés de Dominique Laresche et François Mazure pour parler de Taïwan, des tensions avec la Chine et des perspectives d'un conflit dans le détroit.
Lien 👉 www.youtube.com/live/TPqBwMf...
@tv5monde.info #Chine #Taiwan

...a higher degree of uncertainty when it comes to the substance of Washington’s foreign policy than what we assume in Europe. A gloomy picture, to say the least.
Apart from that, restaurants, blues/soul concerts, cocktail bars and the Bulls Vs. Cavs game!
Estimated time to recovery: 1 week. 3/3

I also attended several panels on East Asia and, of course, on US domestic politics and foreign policy. In the latter regard, I must say that the information I absorbed, both from the panels and by talking to people “in the street,” reveals a deeper polarization of the American society and... 2/3

Wrap-up of what was certainly my most intense ISA to date #ISA2025
In addition to presenting my work on spheres of influence and international hierarchies, I participated in a roundtable on Neoclassical realism and chaired two panels on alliances and international dynamics in the Indo-Pacific. 1/3

After San Francisco, Chicago! On display again at #ISA2025 @isanet.bsky.social 😁

2) “Can it be Interdisciplinary and Analytically Pluralistic?” (MA75) chaired by Jennifer Sterling-Folker, Monday, 8:15-10am, at PR 1179.
Looking forward to seeing you @isanet.bsky.social!

#ISA2025 people, mark in your convention calendar what promises to be 2 terrific roundtables on Neoclassical realism & its analytical breadth 🔥
1) “Can it be Geographically and Positionally Diverse?” (SA70) chaired by @lucerioli.bsky.social & @thomasjuneau.bsky.social, Sunday, 8:15-10am, at PR 904.

2 Russian Tu-95 bombers, each accompanied by a fighter, making U-turns near Japan while 1 anti-submarine warfare aircraft patrols the Sea of Japan.
This China-in-Taiwan Strait type of trajectories began, to my knowledge, in summer 2024.

Great to be back at my alma mater UNIGE for the Swiss Political Science Association's Annual Congress, where I presented my research on the conceptualization of spheres of influence through int’l hierarchies. Progress being made! Next stop, @isanet.bsky.social’s Annual Convention.

Happy to have been, this year again, member of the Advisory Board of “Conflict Barometer,” focusing on Asia & Oceania. Published by Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research, it records dynamics of political conflicts (369) worldwide in 2023.
Link: hiik.de/conflict-bar...

Russian Kilo-class submarine spotted off Philippines' Mindoro province on Thursday sailed near Japan's Yonaguni this morning, allegedly en route to Vladivostok.
Navigated on the surface in line with innocent passage provision.

Can we stop referring to China's 9-dash line, given that it's a 10-dash line?