Thomas Diez
@thomasdiez.bsky.social
University of Tübingen professor interested in EU, Cyprus, Turkey, climate change, security, discourse, and all things IR. Love travel, nice hotels and good food.
Congratulations to #Erhürman and all my Turkish #Cypriot friends! Let's look to the future and see whether #Christodoulides is ready to dance
October 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Congratulations to #Erhürman and all my Turkish #Cypriot friends! Let's look to the future and see whether #Christodoulides is ready to dance
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missed the plenary, made the point.
@thomasdiez.bsky.social at #EWIS2025 on why international society needs to be studied from below — through the everyday, not just diplomacy.
read more in the post ↓
#EverydayIR #EISA #InternationalStudies
@thomasdiez.bsky.social at #EWIS2025 on why international society needs to be studied from below — through the everyday, not just diplomacy.
read more in the post ↓
#EverydayIR #EISA #InternationalStudies
July 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
missed the plenary, made the point.
@thomasdiez.bsky.social at #EWIS2025 on why international society needs to be studied from below — through the everyday, not just diplomacy.
read more in the post ↓
#EverydayIR #EISA #InternationalStudies
@thomasdiez.bsky.social at #EWIS2025 on why international society needs to be studied from below — through the everyday, not just diplomacy.
read more in the post ↓
#EverydayIR #EISA #InternationalStudies
War gerade in einem #ICE mit der Aufschrift "Wir rollen für #Europa". Oder so. Das ist doppelt falsch. In #Deutschland rollt man nicht mehr für Europa, sondern für #Grenzkontrollen. Und am Ende rollte der Zug gar nicht. Technischer Defekt an einer Tür. Branding allein nutzt halt auch nichts.
July 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
War gerade in einem #ICE mit der Aufschrift "Wir rollen für #Europa". Oder so. Das ist doppelt falsch. In #Deutschland rollt man nicht mehr für Europa, sondern für #Grenzkontrollen. Und am Ende rollte der Zug gar nicht. Technischer Defekt an einer Tür. Branding allein nutzt halt auch nichts.
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro...
The main German news programme asks whether #Schengen is dead because #Poland is introducing border controls on Monday. But it's #Germany who will have killed it.
The main German news programme asks whether #Schengen is dead because #Poland is introducing border controls on Monday. But it's #Germany who will have killed it.
July 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro...
The main German news programme asks whether #Schengen is dead because #Poland is introducing border controls on Monday. But it's #Germany who will have killed it.
The main German news programme asks whether #Schengen is dead because #Poland is introducing border controls on Monday. But it's #Germany who will have killed it.
Eine von vielen Fragen derzeit an Julia Klöckner: hätten Sie @cansinkoektuerk.bsky.social auch dann des Saales verwiesen, wenn sie ein T-Shirt mit "Ukraine"-Aufschrift getragen hätte? Oder "Israel"? @bundestag.de
June 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Eine von vielen Fragen derzeit an Julia Klöckner: hätten Sie @cansinkoektuerk.bsky.social auch dann des Saales verwiesen, wenn sie ein T-Shirt mit "Ukraine"-Aufschrift getragen hätte? Oder "Israel"? @bundestag.de
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🚨Publication alert🚨:
My new article 'Towards Orchestrating Normative Power in the Climate Crisis' is now available (OA).
It's part of a SI by Ian Manners on 'Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis' #EU #NormativePower #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My new article 'Towards Orchestrating Normative Power in the Climate Crisis' is now available (OA).
It's part of a SI by Ian Manners on 'Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis' #EU #NormativePower #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Towards orchestrating normative power in the climate crisis - Franziskus von Lucke, 2025
The European Union has long presented itself as a key actor when it comes to tackling the climate crisis and has been called a climate leader or ‘green normativ...
journals.sagepub.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🚨Publication alert🚨:
My new article 'Towards Orchestrating Normative Power in the Climate Crisis' is now available (OA).
It's part of a SI by Ian Manners on 'Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis' #EU #NormativePower #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My new article 'Towards Orchestrating Normative Power in the Climate Crisis' is now available (OA).
It's part of a SI by Ian Manners on 'Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis' #EU #NormativePower #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Friedensforscher sehen USA als "Unsicherheitsfaktor"#Friedensgutachten
Friedensforscher sehen USA als "Unsicherheitsfaktor"
Im Friedensgutachten 2025 plädieren Experten für mehr Unabhängigkeit in der europäischen Verteidigung.
www.tagesschau.de
June 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Friedensforscher sehen USA als "Unsicherheitsfaktor"#Friedensgutachten
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Wir haben einen Innenminister, der nicht bereit ist Rechtsstaatlichkeit zu akzeptieren und - selbst nach einer Gerichtsentscheidung - rechtsstaatlich zu handeln ...
Der Weg ist höchst gefährlich.
www.tagesschau.de/inland/zurue...
Der Weg ist höchst gefährlich.
www.tagesschau.de/inland/zurue...
Trotz Gerichtsentscheidung: Dobrindt hält an Zurückweisungen fest
Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt hält trotz einer Gerichtsentscheidung an Zurückweisungen von Asylsuchenden an den Grenzen fest. Das Gericht habe eine Einzelfallentscheidung getroffen und verlange nur nac...
www.tagesschau.de
June 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Wir haben einen Innenminister, der nicht bereit ist Rechtsstaatlichkeit zu akzeptieren und - selbst nach einer Gerichtsentscheidung - rechtsstaatlich zu handeln ...
Der Weg ist höchst gefährlich.
www.tagesschau.de/inland/zurue...
Der Weg ist höchst gefährlich.
www.tagesschau.de/inland/zurue...
New book on #infrastructure and #international_relations out now - including my reflections on how infrastructural development has enabled (re)formations of #international_society. Check it out! @iratut.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Transnational Infrastructures and the Transformation of Global Orders
This book offers a multidisciplinary insight into the significance of infrastructural change for global orders.
link.springer.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New book on #infrastructure and #international_relations out now - including my reflections on how infrastructural development has enabled (re)formations of #international_society. Check it out! @iratut.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Skytte prize winners speak out www.ft.com/content/939b...
Letter: Prize-winning political scientists speak out
From Francis Fukuyama and others
www.ft.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Skytte prize winners speak out www.ft.com/content/939b...
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Brave letter from three international students at Harvard on Trump’s assault on the university and the broader implications www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up.
Three student leaders on Trump’s attempts to throw them out of the country.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Brave letter from three international students at Harvard on Trump’s assault on the university and the broader implications www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Can someone in the #EU or in the government of my country please find clear words of condemnation of what the #US #government is doing to its universities - and to the world? Imagine #Putin or #Erdoğan would be acting similarly. #standbyharvard @kajakallas.bsky.social @larsklingbeil.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Can someone in the #EU or in the government of my country please find clear words of condemnation of what the #US #government is doing to its universities - and to the world? Imagine #Putin or #Erdoğan would be acting similarly. #standbyharvard @kajakallas.bsky.social @larsklingbeil.bsky.social
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It was fun talking about infrastructures and global security at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Thanks for the invitation and curious questions and comments! @marcokrueger.bsky.social @kawezel.bsky.social @katharinakrause.bsky.social @thomasdiez.bsky.social
Raum wird wieder politischer und gewinnt an Relevanz im Diskurs. Spannender Einblick in die Bedeutung von Bedeutung von Infrastruktur für Sicherheit von @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It was fun talking about infrastructures and global security at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Thanks for the invitation and curious questions and comments! @marcokrueger.bsky.social @kawezel.bsky.social @katharinakrause.bsky.social @thomasdiez.bsky.social
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Amidst all the awfulness, it’s good to see two new books published on my Configurations series!
April 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Amidst all the awfulness, it’s good to see two new books published on my Configurations series!
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Sad news: Joe Nye has passed away. www.belfercenter.org/collection/r...
Remembering Joseph S. Nye
www.belfercenter.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Sad news: Joe Nye has passed away. www.belfercenter.org/collection/r...
Are secessionist entities in the post-Soviet space mere puppets in the hands of the Kremlin or do they have bargaining power of their own? Our latest PhD, Maximilian Ohle, argues the latter, even if this power is highly constrained. #Abkhazia #Transnistria @unituebingen.bsky.social
Congratulations to Maximilian Ohle on successfully defending his PhD Thesis! 🎉
April 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Are secessionist entities in the post-Soviet space mere puppets in the hands of the Kremlin or do they have bargaining power of their own? Our latest PhD, Maximilian Ohle, argues the latter, even if this power is highly constrained. #Abkhazia #Transnistria @unituebingen.bsky.social
So lange die Kirchen dazu aufgerufen haben, #CDU #CSU zu wählen, war das offensichtlich seelsorgerischer als sich gegen #Klimawandel und für #Geflüchtete einzusetzen. Es war nicht so geplant, aber grauenvoller hätte Julia #Klöckner den Tod von #Franziskus kaum kommentieren können
April 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
So lange die Kirchen dazu aufgerufen haben, #CDU #CSU zu wählen, war das offensichtlich seelsorgerischer als sich gegen #Klimawandel und für #Geflüchtete einzusetzen. Es war nicht so geplant, aber grauenvoller hätte Julia #Klöckner den Tod von #Franziskus kaum kommentieren können
Resist any intrusion into the freedom of universities. Anywhere.
April 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Resist any intrusion into the freedom of universities. Anywhere.
Wie kann es sein, dass ein Zug gerade eben noch pünktlich ist im #DBNavigator und dann von jetzt auf nachher 10 Minuten Verspätung hat? Wozu hat man die App überhaupt?? #RB74 @deutschebahn.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Wie kann es sein, dass ein Zug gerade eben noch pünktlich ist im #DBNavigator und dann von jetzt auf nachher 10 Minuten Verspätung hat? Wozu hat man die App überhaupt?? #RB74 @deutschebahn.com
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"...One of the clearest signs that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has abandoned democratic accountability and embraced full autocracy is his quiet yet deliberate retreat from the economic populism that once underpinned his rule..."👇
Turkey at a Crossroads: The End of Erdoğan’s Economic Contract and the Beginning of Dynastic Autocracy newsaboutturkey.com/2025/04/08/t...
Turkey at a Crossroads: The End of Erdoğan’s Economic Contract and the Beginning of Dynastic Autocracy
One of the clearest signs that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has abandoned democratic accountability and embraced full autocracy is his quiet yet deliberate retreat from the economic populism that on...
newsaboutturkey.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"...One of the clearest signs that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has abandoned democratic accountability and embraced full autocracy is his quiet yet deliberate retreat from the economic populism that once underpinned his rule..."👇
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⏰ Upcoming deadlines ⏰
💸 Dissertation Support Grant applications are due on 11 April (in 3 days!)
🗳️ Members can vote in the Governing Board Elections until 21 April
📋 EWIS 2025 registration closes on 22 April
💸 Dissertation Support Grant applications are due on 11 April (in 3 days!)
🗳️ Members can vote in the Governing Board Elections until 21 April
📋 EWIS 2025 registration closes on 22 April
April 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
⏰ Upcoming deadlines ⏰
💸 Dissertation Support Grant applications are due on 11 April (in 3 days!)
🗳️ Members can vote in the Governing Board Elections until 21 April
📋 EWIS 2025 registration closes on 22 April
💸 Dissertation Support Grant applications are due on 11 April (in 3 days!)
🗳️ Members can vote in the Governing Board Elections until 21 April
📋 EWIS 2025 registration closes on 22 April
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⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg!
On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex...
Applications due: 2 May 2025
Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex...
#EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods
On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex...
Applications due: 2 May 2025
Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex...
#EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods
April 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg!
On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex...
Applications due: 2 May 2025
Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex...
#EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods
On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex...
Applications due: 2 May 2025
Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex...
#EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods
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Let me share something that has annoyed me. When I was asked to contribute to this CATS Network Perspectives in January, I scoured the web for analyses of the economic costs of the trade war that I suspected Trump would trigger, but I couldn’t find any.+
www.cats-network.eu/publication/...
www.cats-network.eu/publication/...
How will the Trump administration’s protectionist policies impact Turkish-American relations?
After a year marked by elections around the globe, the elected governments are adopting new policies and reshaping the global environment. Most...
www.cats-network.eu
April 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Let me share something that has annoyed me. When I was asked to contribute to this CATS Network Perspectives in January, I scoured the web for analyses of the economic costs of the trade war that I suspected Trump would trigger, but I couldn’t find any.+
www.cats-network.eu/publication/...
www.cats-network.eu/publication/...
My wonderful wife, Bettina Ahrens-Diez, was nominated unanimously yesterday to become the @spdde.bsky.social candidate for the next state #elections in March 2026 in the District of #Freudenstadt. Thank you, Freudenstadt, and fingers crossed!!!!
April 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
My wonderful wife, Bettina Ahrens-Diez, was nominated unanimously yesterday to become the @spdde.bsky.social candidate for the next state #elections in March 2026 in the District of #Freudenstadt. Thank you, Freudenstadt, and fingers crossed!!!!