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Department of Political Science, Radboud University Nijmegen
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Afdeling Politicologie/Department of Political Science @ Radboud University Nijmegen 🇳🇱 - follow for news, achievements, research, student activities, jobs and more! Posts in 🇳🇱/🇬🇧 Find us at www.ru.nl/political-science
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Department of Political Science, Radboud University Nijmegen @radboudpol.bsky.social · Dec 2
Get to know us and our work here:
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‘Uit onderzoeken blijkt dat de inhoudelijke meningsverschillen onder burgers vele malen kleiner zijn dan die tussen politici of stemmen in de media.’ Carolien van Ham

@casperthomas.bsky.social @groene.nl @radboudpol.bsky.social #democratie
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November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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oschwarzude.bsky.social
On 29 January 2026, students will once again take the floor at
@unidue.bsky.social to debate:

• Online hate speech
• Trump's tariff policy
• Open borders in Europe

With amazing teams from @unicologne.bsky.social, @maastrichtu.bsky.social and @radboudpol.bsky.social! 💪

#UDE #NRWdebattiertEuropa
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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🚨 Publication Alert 🚨
meibauir.bsky.social Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · 14d
🚨 Publication Alert 🚨

"Neoclassical Realist Theory of Populist Foreign Policy" just out with @risjnl.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

I explore how populism affects state behavior over time. This aims at further integrating populism scholarship into, and combining it with, IR theory.

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Neoclassical realist theory of populist foreign policy | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Neoclassical realist theory of populist foreign policy
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November 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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🚨 Publication Alert 🚨

Miguel A. Rivera-Quiñones with a new article in @ripejournal.bsky.social titled "Racism, colonialism, and tax havens: tracing the offshore world’s hidden histories" - check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Racism, colonialism, and tax havens: tracing the offshore world’s hidden histories
This article advances a decolonial intervention in International Political Economy (IPE) by examining the centrality of racism in the formation of offshore zones under British and American colonial...
www.tandfonline.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
radboudpol.bsky.social
In her MA course on applying theoretical approaches to conflict, @haleyswedlund.bsky.social brought out the legos - for students to redesign global justice and build the future of conflict studies amidst a rapidly changing world.

A playful way to end a 'heavy' course!
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
radboudpol.bsky.social
Our experts were busy explaining the Dutch election - outcomes, voting behavior, coalition dynamics, etc. - to a wide range of international and national audiences, across different outlets.

Check out a selection here: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
Political scientists in (inter)national media on elections | Radboud University
During elections, our experts are particularly busy explaining electoral systems, voting behaviour and the specifics of Dutch politics in national and international media.
www.ru.nl
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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🚨Publication Alert 🚨
Our own @angelawigger.bsky.social and co-author with a new piece in Policy Studies, exploring how unit labour cost scoreboards remain firmly embedded in EU post-crisis governance. This reveals the persistence of competitiveness logics.

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Benchmarking labour competitiveness: the politics of institutionalizing unit labour cost surveillance in the European Union
In responding to the 2008 financial crisis, EU crisis management evolved through successive diagnostic reframings that shifted the root causes from credit crunch to sovereign debt crisis to competi...
www.tandfonline.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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🚨 Publication Alert 🚨
Our own Tine Molendijk and co-author with a new article in @plosone.org on the linkage between military decorations and moral injury. Check it out here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Types of decorations, their social meaning and influence on moral injury: A mixed methods approach
Research on moral injury has thus far paid little attention to social factors and cultural elements. This study addresses this gap by examining the effects of one particular cultural artefact on moral...
journals.plos.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
radboudpol.bsky.social
Ooof. Our Dutch election experts were *busy*. You could have spotted them all over international (CNN, NYT) and Dutch media (NOS, NRC, NPO), blogging and podcasting away. Links soon to follow!
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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HEADS-UP! 🚨

On Wednesday October 29, the Netherlands will holds its 9th (!) legislative elections of the 21st century. I will continue to post disproportionately about my country of birth and citizenship (but not of residence) in the coming weeks.

This will be my thread for Dutch news! 🧵
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ALT: a map of netherlands with flags and a cartoon character
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October 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Please, join us tomorrow for Georg Löfflmann's book talk and discussion with Cora Lacatus (CGD Director) and Angelos Chryssogelos (London Metropolitan University) on the Trump presidency and the study of populism in IR.
gloefflmann.bsky.social Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann @gloefflmann.bsky.social · 21d
I'm very chuffed to say that tomorrow is the official book launch at @qmulsse.bsky.social for my monograph 'The Politics of Antagonism: Populist Security Narratives and the Remaking of Political Identity.' /1
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The Politics of Antagonism
Book talk followed by discussion and Q&A with the author, Dr Georg Löfflmann'.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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globalsociety.bsky.social
The fourth article in Global Society 39(4) is "Repression and Alliance Formation: A Gender(ed) Approach to Interethnic Cooperation During Conflict" by Shelli Israelsen (@radboudpol.bsky.social). Be sure to give it a read!

#Repression #Gender #OpenAccess

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This article explores alliance behaviour among female insurgents. I argue that interethnic cooperation among women affiliated with different ethnic armed groups is affected by whether women share a commitment to gender egalitarianism and the level of repression they face from their male co-ethnics. Building on previous research, I create a typology of women’s alliance behaviour that explains variation in the level of cooperation and the type of alliance women form. I disaggregate gender egalitarianism along three dimensions – shared victimhood, promotion of gender equality and linkages to civil society – to show how women overcome mistrust to create social bonds. Using the case of the Karen Women’s Organisation (KWO), I demonstrate that even in the face of repression, once these bonds are created, they are unlikely to break down. This study adds to research highlighting the role of repression in driving wartime alliances.
October 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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armida.bsky.social
Good primer from @theguardian.com on the Dutch elections, with comments from Koen Vossen (@radboudpol.bsky.social), @casmudde.bsky.social and - rather humbled by the company - me.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Geert Wilders convinced Dutch voters the far right could run the country. What is their verdict now?
A failed two-year experiment has lessons for the rest of Europe about the appeal – and the limits – of populism • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here
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October 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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apsgworkshop.bsky.social
Join us next week!
Anna Lia Brunetti (@univie.ac.at ) & @beluabdala.bsky.social (@unisalzburg.bsky.social) will be presenting their work on the moderating role of citizen's meanings of voting.
Sarah Birch (KCL) and Carolien van Ham (@radboudpol.bsky.social) will discuss.
October 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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🚨 Publication Alert 🚨
wepsocial.bsky.social WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · Oct 14
💥Online first:

"How populist citizens see the people and their place in representative democracy"

by Rosa Kindt @robert-a-huber.bsky.social & @kristofjacobs1.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Abstract of the article "How populist citizens see the people and their place in representative democracy" by Rosa Kindt, Robert A. Huber and Kristof Jacobs. Published online first in West European Politics. Figure 2, displaying the comparison of high and low populists' marginal means on whether politicians belong to the people. Figure 3, displaying the comparison of marginal means per attribute on the economical dimension in relation to 'belonging to the people'. Figure 4, displaying the comparison of marginal means per attribute on the cultural dimension in relation to 'belonging to the people'.
October 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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🚨Blogpost Alert 🚨

Reinout van der Veer, @meibauir.bsky.social & Michal Onderco on populism, technocracy & international organizations (in 🇳🇱): stukroodvlees.nl/populisten-o...

This work builds on research recently published in @ejprjournal.bsky.social and @ejir.bsky.social (links below).
Populisten ondermijnen en technocraten verdedigen internationale organisaties: is het echt zo simpel? - StukRoodVlees
De rol van internationale organisaties in internationale samenwerking is zwaar gepolitiseerd geraakt. Dit is geen nieuw fenomeen,[1] maar de opkomst van nationalistisch rechtspopulisme in het Westen b...
stukroodvlees.nl
October 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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🚨Tine Molendijk benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar 'Morele Dilemma’s' 🚨

Het College van Bestuur van de Radboud Universiteit heeft haar goedkeuring gegeven voor de aanstelling van Tine Molendijk als bijzonder hoogleraar 'Morele Dilemma’s van Multilaterale Militaire Operaties'. Welkom (terug)!
October 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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It's real! "The No-Fly Zone in US Foreign Policy" in hand and successfully launched at @radboudpol.bsky.social today 🥳 - get your copy here (bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-no-fly-z...) and/or ask your library to stock it! 🙏
October 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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post-doc-club.bsky.social Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · Sep 29
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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September 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Our staff in the news!
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Angela Wigger and Joep van Lit in the media | Radboud University
Angela Wigger wrote policy reports and appeared in a podcast. Joep van Lit was interviewed on Radio 1 and EenVandaag about democracy and autocracy.
www.ru.nl
September 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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New article published by our own @bertjanverbeek.bsky.social Jutta Joachim, Chris Nijhuis, and Andrej Zaslove (with @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social ) in @cambridgecria.bsky.social

👉 'The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war'

👉 doi.org/10.1080/0955...
The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war
Before 2022, many populist politicians had a relatively positive view of Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. They welcomed meetings with him, posed for photographs, and even wore T-shirts bea...
doi.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
radboudpol.bsky.social
🚨 New publication by our own Nora Stel in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies! 🚨

👉 ‘The dog that barks doesn’t bite’? Non-performativity in migration diplomacy: EUropean-Lebanese engagement on refugee return to Syria'

👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
‘The dog that barks doesn’t bite’? Non-performativity in migration diplomacy: EUropean-Lebanese engagement on refugee return to Syria
Before the unexpected fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, Lebanese and EUropean political actors found refugee return to Syria either unfeasible or undesirable. Nevertheless, their diplomati...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
radboudpol.bsky.social
New article published by our own @bertjanverbeek.bsky.social Jutta Joachim, Chris Nijhuis, and Andrej Zaslove (with @fabrizio-coticchia.bsky.social ) in @cambridgecria.bsky.social

👉 'The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war'

👉 doi.org/10.1080/0955...
The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war
Before 2022, many populist politicians had a relatively positive view of Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. They welcomed meetings with him, posed for photographs, and even wore T-shirts bea...
doi.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
radboudpol.bsky.social
New Publication! ✈️
meibauir.bsky.social Gustav Meibauer @meibauir.bsky.social · Sep 12
🚨 Publication Day 🚨

'The No-Fly Zone in US Foreign Policy' is now in (online) bookstores near you - check it out here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-no-fly-z...

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September 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM