Alexander Mesarovich
@mesarovicha.bsky.social
Max Weber Fellow at the School of Transnational Governance researching: Transnational Populism, Informality, and the Balkans
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And its now #EUI official! My new #book is in the library collection. Interested in #informality? #EUaccession? #Policylearning? Check out a webinar I did with the @euvaluesnetwork.bsky.social and Irena Petrović: www.eu-values.eu/euvaluesonde...
Work on #transnational #illiberalism? Consider submitting a paper for my workshop at ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions! Seeking papers on #illiberal #parties, #socialmovements, #transnationalism and trans-regionalism. Deadline 3 December! Event details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Work on #transnational #illiberalism? Consider submitting a paper for my workshop at ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions! Seeking papers on #illiberal #parties, #socialmovements, #transnationalism and trans-regionalism. Deadline 3 December! Event details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
I am happy to announce that registrations are open for my "Online regional method school: multimethod research in the social sciences"! Supported by @eui-eu.bsky.social, the course covers #multimethod research, #SNA, elite #interviews, and #ethnographic fieldwork: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
Online regional method school: multimethod research in the social sciences
In the framework of the EUI Widening Europe Programme, this online school is intended to provide postgraduate students and practical researchers with an introduction to multi-methods research in the s...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I am happy to announce that registrations are open for my "Online regional method school: multimethod research in the social sciences"! Supported by @eui-eu.bsky.social, the course covers #multimethod research, #SNA, elite #interviews, and #ethnographic fieldwork: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
Excited for my #NewPublication in @jcms-eu.bsky.social with T. Schumacher. We discuss challenges to theoretical models of #EUenlargement in the #EasternTrio and #WesternBalkans. To read more check out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-ggp.bsky.social
Beyond External Incentives: The European Union, Wartime Enlargement and the Candidate Countries in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans
Click on the article title to read more.
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August 13, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Excited for my #NewPublication in @jcms-eu.bsky.social with T. Schumacher. We discuss challenges to theoretical models of #EUenlargement in the #EasternTrio and #WesternBalkans. To read more check out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-ggp.bsky.social
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🚨New book alert!🚨
Thrilled to announce that my @britishacademy.bsky.social Monograph, 'Capital, Privilege, and Political Participation,' will be published via @livunipress.bsky.social later this month.
Find details and pre-order (with discount) here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Thrilled to announce that my @britishacademy.bsky.social Monograph, 'Capital, Privilege, and Political Participation,' will be published via @livunipress.bsky.social later this month.
Find details and pre-order (with discount) here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
August 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🚨New book alert!🚨
Thrilled to announce that my @britishacademy.bsky.social Monograph, 'Capital, Privilege, and Political Participation,' will be published via @livunipress.bsky.social later this month.
Find details and pre-order (with discount) here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Thrilled to announce that my @britishacademy.bsky.social Monograph, 'Capital, Privilege, and Political Participation,' will be published via @livunipress.bsky.social later this month.
Find details and pre-order (with discount) here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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📢 #CallForPapers: @eui-sps.bsky.social invites submissions for the 2nd EUI Workshop on Political Behaviour in #Central & #EasternEurope.
🗣️ Join EUI Profs. @filipkostelka.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social & Hanspeter Kriesi
🗓️ 19-20 June 2025, Florence
⏳ Submit abstracts by 𝟐𝟖 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡: buff.ly/6I3pBqP
🗣️ Join EUI Profs. @filipkostelka.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social & Hanspeter Kriesi
🗓️ 19-20 June 2025, Florence
⏳ Submit abstracts by 𝟐𝟖 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡: buff.ly/6I3pBqP
March 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📢 #CallForPapers: @eui-sps.bsky.social invites submissions for the 2nd EUI Workshop on Political Behaviour in #Central & #EasternEurope.
🗣️ Join EUI Profs. @filipkostelka.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social & Hanspeter Kriesi
🗓️ 19-20 June 2025, Florence
⏳ Submit abstracts by 𝟐𝟖 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡: buff.ly/6I3pBqP
🗣️ Join EUI Profs. @filipkostelka.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social & Hanspeter Kriesi
🗓️ 19-20 June 2025, Florence
⏳ Submit abstracts by 𝟐𝟖 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡: buff.ly/6I3pBqP
Well, it's a great time to have a conference on #internationalrelations. Presented as part of an #EU #ExternalAction panel my paper on #EU #StrategicPartnerships and #EU #Strategy. Unfortunately timely... thanks to @isanet.bsky.social for organizing #ISA2025 and @gustavogmuller.bsky.social!
March 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Well, it's a great time to have a conference on #internationalrelations. Presented as part of an #EU #ExternalAction panel my paper on #EU #StrategicPartnerships and #EU #Strategy. Unfortunately timely... thanks to @isanet.bsky.social for organizing #ISA2025 and @gustavogmuller.bsky.social!
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🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.8
Maryna Rabinovych argues that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reshaped EU enlargement dynamics, creating both pressure and opportunity.
📈 To sustain momentum, the EU needs a strategic vision and transparent policies. @ecprsgeu.bsky.social
➡️ bit.ly/41uxL2C
Maryna Rabinovych argues that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reshaped EU enlargement dynamics, creating both pressure and opportunity.
📈 To sustain momentum, the EU needs a strategic vision and transparent policies. @ecprsgeu.bsky.social
➡️ bit.ly/41uxL2C
🧭 Could the spillover effects of war strengthen EU enlargement?
Maryna Rabinovych argues that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reshaped EU enlargement dynamics, creating both pressure and opportunity. To sustain momentum, the EU needs a strategic vision and transparen...
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February 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.8
Maryna Rabinovych argues that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reshaped EU enlargement dynamics, creating both pressure and opportunity.
📈 To sustain momentum, the EU needs a strategic vision and transparent policies. @ecprsgeu.bsky.social
➡️ bit.ly/41uxL2C
Maryna Rabinovych argues that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reshaped EU enlargement dynamics, creating both pressure and opportunity.
📈 To sustain momentum, the EU needs a strategic vision and transparent policies. @ecprsgeu.bsky.social
➡️ bit.ly/41uxL2C
Very happy to see my piece published in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social! Always a pleasure to write about #informality and #accession, and share some insights from my new #book. Thanks, @vanghel.bsky.social, for invitation to contribute to this timely and fascinating series!
🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.5
👀 Informal cultures are often-overlooked in the enlargement process.
🤝 @mesarovicha.bsky.social argues that socialising candidate state policy-makers into the EU’s 'ways of being' is important in producing deeper and more durable reform.
➡️ bit.ly/3WDArrz
👀 Informal cultures are often-overlooked in the enlargement process.
🤝 @mesarovicha.bsky.social argues that socialising candidate state policy-makers into the EU’s 'ways of being' is important in producing deeper and more durable reform.
➡️ bit.ly/3WDArrz
🧭 Rethinking EU enlargement through informal networks
Alexander Mesarovich argues that informal cultures are an often-overlooked aspect of the enlargement process. While the formal changes are essential, socialising candidate state policymakers into the ...
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January 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Very happy to see my piece published in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social! Always a pleasure to write about #informality and #accession, and share some insights from my new #book. Thanks, @vanghel.bsky.social, for invitation to contribute to this timely and fascinating series!
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🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.4
Jelena Džankić argues that amid today’s geopolitical challenges, prioritising the transformative mechanisms of EU enlargement ↔️ is more critical than focusing solely on achieving full membership.
👉 bit.ly/3C65s0z
Jelena Džankić argues that amid today’s geopolitical challenges, prioritising the transformative mechanisms of EU enlargement ↔️ is more critical than focusing solely on achieving full membership.
👉 bit.ly/3C65s0z
🧭 EU enlargement: process first, outcome second
The EU enlargement process successfully transformed Southern and Eastern European states into market democracies, but faltered in the Western Balkans. Jelena Džankić argues that amid today’s geopoliti...
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January 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.4
Jelena Džankić argues that amid today’s geopolitical challenges, prioritising the transformative mechanisms of EU enlargement ↔️ is more critical than focusing solely on achieving full membership.
👉 bit.ly/3C65s0z
Jelena Džankić argues that amid today’s geopolitical challenges, prioritising the transformative mechanisms of EU enlargement ↔️ is more critical than focusing solely on achieving full membership.
👉 bit.ly/3C65s0z
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🧭EU Enlargement debates @ecprtheloop.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social continue with some more pushback against likely enlargement. Instead, the EU will prefer partial candidate integration, say Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré and Matteo Bonomi ⬇️
theloop.ecpr.eu/the-eu-needs...
theloop.ecpr.eu/the-eu-needs...
January 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🧭EU Enlargement debates @ecprtheloop.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social continue with some more pushback against likely enlargement. Instead, the EU will prefer partial candidate integration, say Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré and Matteo Bonomi ⬇️
theloop.ecpr.eu/the-eu-needs...
theloop.ecpr.eu/the-eu-needs...
Well screw you too Duolingo lady, damn. Too much judgement first thing in the morning.
January 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Well screw you too Duolingo lady, damn. Too much judgement first thing in the morning.
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#DidEUIknow that in 2024 the EUI Widening Europe Programme engaged scholars and staff from across 23 countries?
More than 500 scholars and staff from targeted Widening countries participated in tailored #trainings designed to foster excellence & empower peer exchanges.
👉 https://buff.ly/4a7tlBt
More than 500 scholars and staff from targeted Widening countries participated in tailored #trainings designed to foster excellence & empower peer exchanges.
👉 https://buff.ly/4a7tlBt
January 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
#DidEUIknow that in 2024 the EUI Widening Europe Programme engaged scholars and staff from across 23 countries?
More than 500 scholars and staff from targeted Widening countries participated in tailored #trainings designed to foster excellence & empower peer exchanges.
👉 https://buff.ly/4a7tlBt
More than 500 scholars and staff from targeted Widening countries participated in tailored #trainings designed to foster excellence & empower peer exchanges.
👉 https://buff.ly/4a7tlBt
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The ECPR's blog site, The Loop (theloop.ecpr.eu) has added a new series on enlargement, edited by @vanghel.bsky.social, that explores how and why the European Union is working so hard to expand its membership to the countries of Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. 1/
ECPR's Political Science Blog
theloop.ecpr.eu
January 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The ECPR's blog site, The Loop (theloop.ecpr.eu) has added a new series on enlargement, edited by @vanghel.bsky.social, that explores how and why the European Union is working so hard to expand its membership to the countries of Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. 1/
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🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.1
Launching a 🆕 series on EU enlargement, series editor @vanghel.bsky.social argues that enlargement 🗺️ is no gamble, but a strategic necessity to ensure the Union’s survival and relevance.
➡️ bit.ly/4gF5FGk
Launching a 🆕 series on EU enlargement, series editor @vanghel.bsky.social argues that enlargement 🗺️ is no gamble, but a strategic necessity to ensure the Union’s survival and relevance.
➡️ bit.ly/4gF5FGk
🧭 Why EU enlargement is a strategic necessity
Launching her series on EU enlargement dilemmas, Veronica Anghel argues that enlargement is no gamble, but a strategic necessity. In crisis, enlargement transforms external risks into shared responsib...
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December 20, 2024 at 9:21 AM
🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.1
Launching a 🆕 series on EU enlargement, series editor @vanghel.bsky.social argues that enlargement 🗺️ is no gamble, but a strategic necessity to ensure the Union’s survival and relevance.
➡️ bit.ly/4gF5FGk
Launching a 🆕 series on EU enlargement, series editor @vanghel.bsky.social argues that enlargement 🗺️ is no gamble, but a strategic necessity to ensure the Union’s survival and relevance.
➡️ bit.ly/4gF5FGk
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How does 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 impact our daily lives and democracy?
↪️ In this interview, Andres Reiljan shares insights into how political divisions shape society—from everyday life to democratic norms—breaking down the causes, consequences, and potential solutions.
Read more 🔗 loom.ly/SaH5dCA
↪️ In this interview, Andres Reiljan shares insights into how political divisions shape society—from everyday life to democratic norms—breaking down the causes, consequences, and potential solutions.
Read more 🔗 loom.ly/SaH5dCA
Andres Reiljan on affective polarisation: Causes, impacts and solutions
In this interview, Andres Reiljan, Max Weber Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre, discusses his research on affective polarisation, focusing on its causes, ho
loom.ly
December 17, 2024 at 2:52 PM
How does 𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 impact our daily lives and democracy?
↪️ In this interview, Andres Reiljan shares insights into how political divisions shape society—from everyday life to democratic norms—breaking down the causes, consequences, and potential solutions.
Read more 🔗 loom.ly/SaH5dCA
↪️ In this interview, Andres Reiljan shares insights into how political divisions shape society—from everyday life to democratic norms—breaking down the causes, consequences, and potential solutions.
Read more 🔗 loom.ly/SaH5dCA
And its now #EUI official! My new #book is in the library collection. Interested in #informality? #EUaccession? #Policylearning? Check out a webinar I did with the @euvaluesnetwork.bsky.social and Irena Petrović: www.eu-values.eu/euvaluesonde...
December 4, 2024 at 6:47 PM
And its now #EUI official! My new #book is in the library collection. Interested in #informality? #EUaccession? #Policylearning? Check out a webinar I did with the @euvaluesnetwork.bsky.social and Irena Petrović: www.eu-values.eu/euvaluesonde...
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Don't forget! Make sure to register for today's event, exploring how informal social networks are influencing EU accession with Dr. @mesarovicha.bsky.social. See you there!
Last minute registrations here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Last minute registrations here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 26, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Don't forget! Make sure to register for today's event, exploring how informal social networks are influencing EU accession with Dr. @mesarovicha.bsky.social. See you there!
Last minute registrations here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Last minute registrations here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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I will stop going on about this soon, but, the call for papers have been extended until this evening. Please do stick in a paper if you're minded to do so. bsky.app/profile/did:...
Researching populist governance in action? There is still, just, time to put in a paper for this workshop with Researching populist governance in action? There is still, just, time to put in a paper for this workshop with
@mesarovicha.bsky.social ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
@mesarovicha.bsky.social ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Learning to Walk the Walk: Populists, Public Policy, and Transnational Diffusion
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
November 22, 2024 at 9:43 AM
I will stop going on about this soon, but, the call for papers have been extended until this evening. Please do stick in a paper if you're minded to do so. bsky.app/profile/did:...
Working on #populism, #diffusion, or #publicpolicy? This is the last day to submit an abstract to the European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions Workshop I am organising with Sean Kippin! Submit by midnight tonight UK time to join us in Prague and talk #populism and #diffusion!
November 21, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Working on #populism, #diffusion, or #publicpolicy? This is the last day to submit an abstract to the European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions Workshop I am organising with Sean Kippin! Submit by midnight tonight UK time to join us in Prague and talk #populism and #diffusion!
Thanks to all the panelists and attendees at my #booklaunch on Tuesday! It was a lovely opportunity to discuss the #balkans, #EUaccession, and #informality. If you want to find out more about the book see the interview here: www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
November 21, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Thanks to all the panelists and attendees at my #booklaunch on Tuesday! It was a lovely opportunity to discuss the #balkans, #EUaccession, and #informality. If you want to find out more about the book see the interview here: www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
And to whet your appetite, check out this interview I did the other week: www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
November 19, 2024 at 10:39 AM
And to whet your appetite, check out this interview I did the other week: www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
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I have many new followers (thanks!). @mesarovicha.bsky.social and I are running this workshop at the @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions in Prague and we’d love you to submit your paper. Yes, yours! ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Learning to Walk the Walk: Populists, Public Policy, and Transnational Diffusion
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
November 17, 2024 at 7:53 PM
I have many new followers (thanks!). @mesarovicha.bsky.social and I are running this workshop at the @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions in Prague and we’d love you to submit your paper. Yes, yours! ecpr.eu/Events/Event...