Last Friday (Sept. 19), @andduer.bsky.social, @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social, @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social and I had the great pleasure of hosting an excellent workshop at @unisalzburg.bsky.social on how to use Large Language Models #LLMs to boost International Relations research. A short 🧵1/4

That's what it looks like, yes. Thanks for your efforts, btw!

with 3rd countries through these trade agreements – transforming it into a truly global political actor one agreement at a time. Substantively, the Commission included an ever greater number of WTO-extra (WTO-X) issues going beyond issues tackled at the multilateral WTO+ level. (4/7)

with 3rd countries through these trade agreements – transforming it into a truly global political actor one agreement at a time. Substantively, the Commission included an ever greater number of WTO-extra (WTO-X) issues going beyond issues tackled at the multilateral WTO+ level. (4/7)

with 3rd countries through these trade agreements – transforming it into a truly global political actor one agreement at a time. Substantively, the Commission included an ever greater number of WTO-extra (WTO-X) issues going beyond issues tackled at the multilateral WTO+ level. (4/7)

with 3rd countries through these trade agreements – transforming it into a truly global political actor one agreement at a time. Substantively, the Commission included an ever greater number of WTO-extra (WTO-X) issues going beyond issues tackled at the multilateral WTO+ level. (4/7)

Happy my book titled “EU Trade Agreements and European Integration: Commission Autonomy or Council Control?” came out in the UACES Contemporary European Studies series (Routledge). Introduction here: https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/76147/Book_introduction_2023_Gastinger.pdf 🧵 (1/7)

with 3rd countries through these trade agreements – transforming it into a truly global political actor one agreement at a time. Substantively, the Commission included an ever greater number of WTO-extra (WTO-X) issues going beyond issues tackled at the multilateral WTO+ level. (4/7)

with 3rd countries through these trade agreements – transforming it into a truly global political actor one agreement at a time. Substantively, the Commission included an ever greater number of WTO-extra (WTO-X) issues going beyond issues tackled at the multilateral WTO+ level. (4/7)

with 3rd countries through these trade agreements – transforming it into a truly global political actor one agreement at a time. Substantively, the Commission included an ever greater number of WTO-extra (WTO-X) issues going beyond issues tackled at the multilateral WTO+ level. (4/7)

We then show how political actors position themselves for or against EU actions and/or their domestic government. We find that GOVERNING parties, rather than blaming "Brussels" for illegitimate interventions as we expected, spend considerable effort defending their own actions. (3/7)

We study how EU actions "hit the ground" and show that public attention only spiked in 2020, when democratic backsliding was linked to budgetary transfers. This bears out the critical voices regarding the EU’s reliance on soft tools until 2020, as expressed by @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social (2/7)

🚨Publication alert🚨 New article in @jeppjournal.bsky.social with Arndt Wonka and Michael Blauberger on democratic backsliding in Poland and Hungary, studying public debates in Gazeta Wyborcza and Index/Telex.hu. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2023.2279245 Short 🧵 (1/7)