The so-called “euroblogosphere” is a rather small specialised blogging scene. It has always been like that. However, lately I have the feeling that not enough new bloggers take up the challenge to write about EU topics. It seems to me that only very few new blogs have been launched in the last months/years. Moreover, there [...]
An interesting report by EDRI about the slide from “self-regulation” to corporate censorship The website of the Icelandic Modern Media Initative. Simon Head writes in the New York Review of Books about The Grim Threat to British Universities. The man who writes your students’ papers tells his story: The Shadow Scholar There is a Free [...]
I found this post in my draft folder. I must have written it last summer. It is just a fragment at the moment, not a real essay, probably not even a proper blog post. It is not finished but somehow I am not motivated to work on it at the moment and before it becomes [...]
Read it here. So, what if political scientists covered EU news in newspapers in that way? (no, unfortunately I don’t have time to write something…possibly something for my to-do list Read it here. So, what if political scientists covered EU news in newspapers in that way? (no, unfortunately I don’t have time to write something…possibly [...]
Foreign Policy: The Top 10 Craziest Things Ever Said During a U.N. Speech David Mitchell: If academic endeavour had always been vetted in advance for practicality, we wouldn’t have the aeroplane or the iPhone, just a better mammoth trap. Richard Laming It is ironic that the people who complain most about the complexity of the [...]
Just to let you know that I opened a new Kosmopolito ‘presence’ on Ideas on Europe. (yes, it is that platform I wrote about a few weeks ago). I haven’t really decided about my blogging strategy over there. Most of you know that I am working on a PhD in EU politics and I think [...]
A couple of months ago I had the idea of writing a blog post on why academics do not blog on EU politics. Somehow, due to time constraints, the idea never made it into a proper blog post. Suddenly the topic became interesting again as I found out about “Ideas on Europe”, a new EU [...]
A short op-ed called “Scholars on the sideline” by Joseph Nye in the Washington Post kicked off an interesting (online) debate (read a reaction by Daniel Drezner here) on the relevance of political science/international relations for actual policy making. Nye writes in his article that “not too many top-ranked scholars of international relations are going [...]
Writing a PhD requires one to think a lot about definitions and typologyies. One of the more interesting topics in that respect is a definition of “EU foreign policy”. At the same time, there seems to be quite a gap between academic debate and public debate , although one can of course argue that this is [...]



