Tag Archives: academia
Quotes of the week (VIII)
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 [...]
Posted in European Debate, Other Also tagged Berlusconi, Cameron, ECR, Europe, Italy, lisbon treaty, quotes of the week, REF, UN, United Nations, Vaclav Klaus Leave a comment
Blogging elsewhere
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 [...]
Ideas on Europe – EU Blogging goes academic
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 [...]
Posted in European Union, blogging Also tagged academic, euroblogs, european studies, UACES, universtiy 12 Comments
How relevant is Political Science?
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 [...]
Posted in Humanities & Social Sciences Also tagged Daniel Drezner, international relations, Joseph Nye, political science 2 Comments
Quick Poll: What is "EU foreign policy"?
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 [...]
Posted in European Foreign Policy Also tagged definition, EU, European Foreign Policy, foreign policy, international, phd, typology 2 Comments
Petition to support the European University St Petersburg
The European University at St Petersburg (EUSP) has been forced to stop operating because of some fire safety violations…. Of course this seems to be a politically motivated move of the Russian authorities especially since the University has close connections to the USA and EU. Moreover, the university runs a programme funded by the European [...]
Posted in International Politics Also tagged education, elections, Kremlin, politcs, Putin, Russia, University Leave a comment
What if political scientists covered the news?