Tomas Weiss
@tomasweiss.bsky.social
Professor, JM Chair & Dep Director for Research, Institute of International Studies, Charles University; research on small states, EU CFSP and Czech foreign policy
‼️ New publication in Cambridge Review of International Affairs ‼️
My article asks when small state foreign policy specialisation gets recognised by others.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@ims.fsv.cuni.cz @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz @unikarlova.cuni.cz
My article asks when small state foreign policy specialisation gets recognised by others.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@ims.fsv.cuni.cz @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz @unikarlova.cuni.cz
Specialisation (un)recognised: human rights and Western Balkans in Czech foreign policy
Specialisation is essential for small states to punch above their weight in international organisations. The literature argues that specialisation allows small states to concentrate resources and b...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
‼️ New publication in Cambridge Review of International Affairs ‼️
My article asks when small state foreign policy specialisation gets recognised by others.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@ims.fsv.cuni.cz @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz @unikarlova.cuni.cz
My article asks when small state foreign policy specialisation gets recognised by others.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@ims.fsv.cuni.cz @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz @unikarlova.cuni.cz
Are you interested in Teaching & Learning? This is the event for you.
Call for Papers for @ecpr.bsky.social @ecprsgeu.bsky.social section “Teaching in EU Studies in the Digital Age”
to explore how AI, digitalisation & new pedagogies are reshaping #EU Studies
more info: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
deadline: 10 December 2025
to explore how AI, digitalisation & new pedagogies are reshaping #EU Studies
more info: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
deadline: 10 December 2025
Teaching in EU studies in the digital age
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
October 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Are you interested in Teaching & Learning? This is the event for you.
Reposted by Tomas Weiss
Many are concerned about the return of Babiš to the top of Czech politics. While the results of this weekend's Czech legislative election poses its concerns, I am an optimist. I think Babiš's victory is rather Pyrrhic. Here are some thoughts: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
The 2025 Czech election – Andrej Babiš’s Pyrrhic victory
Andrej Babiš’s ANO won the 2025 Czech election on 3–4 October. Yet as Jan Rovny explains, Babiš will find it challenging to form a stable government.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Many are concerned about the return of Babiš to the top of Czech politics. While the results of this weekend's Czech legislative election poses its concerns, I am an optimist. I think Babiš's victory is rather Pyrrhic. Here are some thoughts: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Read our newest open-access publication in JIRD on small states' foreign policy specialisation:
doi.org/10.1057/s412...
#smallstates #research #EUstudies #academics
doi.org/10.1057/s412...
#smallstates #research #EUstudies #academics
Foreign Policy Specialisation in EU Small States: Conceptualising and Analysing an Underexplored Practice - Journal of International Relations and Development
This paper defines and categorises the concept of ‘foreign policy specialisation,’ emphasizing its significance in small EU member states’ practices and its role as a source of power in international ...
doi.org
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Read our newest open-access publication in JIRD on small states' foreign policy specialisation:
doi.org/10.1057/s412...
#smallstates #research #EUstudies #academics
doi.org/10.1057/s412...
#smallstates #research #EUstudies #academics
#UACES2025 starts on Monday in Liverpool. Once again, a range of brilliant panels. Many of them in our themed track on European security. I hope to see many of you there to discuss foreign interference, small state specialisation, and many other topics.
@uaces.bsky.social @seceur-uaces.bsky.social
@uaces.bsky.social @seceur-uaces.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
#UACES2025 starts on Monday in Liverpool. Once again, a range of brilliant panels. Many of them in our themed track on European security. I hope to see many of you there to discuss foreign interference, small state specialisation, and many other topics.
@uaces.bsky.social @seceur-uaces.bsky.social
@uaces.bsky.social @seceur-uaces.bsky.social
Interesting read, even if worrying. Much more reliance on paid WoS in Czechia. But some promotion models started going the Scholar way. Maybe a mistake…
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
August 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Interesting read, even if worrying. Much more reliance on paid WoS in Czechia. But some promotion models started going the Scholar way. Maybe a mistake…
Jednou IMS, vždycky IMS.
@ims.fsv.cuni.cz
@ims.fsv.cuni.cz
August 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Jednou IMS, vždycky IMS.
@ims.fsv.cuni.cz
@ims.fsv.cuni.cz
This is great reading. It offers a very limited hope that European defence may ever work, but it does not rule it out entirely, so that's a relief. It's also slightly depressing research-wise. The complexity of it all almost prevents any meaningful understanding. In any case, go and read it!
New article today in @jei-publication.bsky.social for @brunoomartins.bsky.social , @nicholasmarsh.bsky.social and I - "The European Iron Network: the remaking of the political economy of European defence production following the Ukraine War" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The European Iron Network: the remaking of the political economy of European defence production following the Ukraine War
In this article, we develop a conceptualisation of the relationship between European institutions, governments and defence industries as a European Iron Network. This network is characterized by a ...
www.tandfonline.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This is great reading. It offers a very limited hope that European defence may ever work, but it does not rule it out entirely, so that's a relief. It's also slightly depressing research-wise. The complexity of it all almost prevents any meaningful understanding. In any case, go and read it!
My almost 30 minutes on Trump, Russia, Transatlantic relations and all that jazz on the Czech public radio (in Czech).
plus.rozhlas.cz/trump-naslou...
plus.rozhlas.cz/trump-naslou...
Trump naslouchá tomu, kdo s ním mluví poslední. Na Aljašce to bude Putin, upozorňuje politolog Weiss
Prezidenti Donald Trump a Vladimir Putin se v pátek setkají na Aljašce. Ukrajina ani Evropa zastoupeni nebudou, evropští státníci se ale shodli, že jejich bezpečnostní zájmy musí být na jednání zohled...
plus.rozhlas.cz
August 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My almost 30 minutes on Trump, Russia, Transatlantic relations and all that jazz on the Czech public radio (in Czech).
plus.rozhlas.cz/trump-naslou...
plus.rozhlas.cz/trump-naslou...
And this, dear readers, is why people go to social media. Not for disinformation and venting their rage, but for exciting analyses of issues they actually never cared about until reading the threads.
You should never follow any of these color charts. They are all stupid.
I'll show you why. 🧵
I'll show you why. 🧵
July 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
And this, dear readers, is why people go to social media. Not for disinformation and venting their rage, but for exciting analyses of issues they actually never cared about until reading the threads.
A very thought provoking essay. What is the reason we ask students to write?
After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
www.forkingpaths.co
June 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A very thought provoking essay. What is the reason we ask students to write?
This is a great post. Students often do not understand the importance of the research question. This post explains it so well!
You don’t need more ideas.
You need a better question.
A thread on clarity, chaos, & what a Nobel Prize winner, a mosquito net & a PhD meltdown taught me about writing (+ thinking) better.
🪨 Here’s my new Respect the Marble post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...
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You need a better question.
A thread on clarity, chaos, & what a Nobel Prize winner, a mosquito net & a PhD meltdown taught me about writing (+ thinking) better.
🪨 Here’s my new Respect the Marble post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...
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You Don’t Need More Ideas. You Need a Better Question
What Michelangelo, a Nobel Laureate, and a PhD Meltdown Taught Me about Research Questions
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This is a great post. Students often do not understand the importance of the research question. This post explains it so well!
I am going to save this and go back to it every single time I need to write an abstract. My future me will love me for doing it.
📄 @fgilardi.bsky.social created this template for writing abstracts several years ago, and I’ve tried to follow Fabrizio‘s suggestions ever since.
PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...
PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...
June 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I am going to save this and go back to it every single time I need to write an abstract. My future me will love me for doing it.
Evidence that humanities help us better understand the world around us.
![Wikipedia definition of "idiot plot": In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot",[1]: 26 and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6waxgers6k753hgsmh2prmv7/bafkreicwreql25fxq3hliczfe3pgz6djdjbrvwbax2d2oyevjm73tb3voy@jpeg)
June 6, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Evidence that humanities help us better understand the world around us.
If you are interested in small states, you mustn't miss the current issue of Small States & Territories, which offers 25 articles on how small states offer answers to big questions. Edited by Hillary Briffa and Anna-Lena Högenauer, it's all open access.
www.um.edu.mt/sst/currenti...
www.um.edu.mt/sst/currenti...
Current issue - L-Università ta' Malta
Current issue
www.um.edu.mt
May 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
If you are interested in small states, you mustn't miss the current issue of Small States & Territories, which offers 25 articles on how small states offer answers to big questions. Edited by Hillary Briffa and Anna-Lena Högenauer, it's all open access.
www.um.edu.mt/sst/currenti...
www.um.edu.mt/sst/currenti...
This is such a good story!
This reminds me of my favourite Chatham House rule story 🧵
Way back in the pre-crash boom period, Gordon Brown as Chancellor hosted one of his big global investment conferences at the QEII in London.
Muggins here, a junior Treasury official, had a cheap seat as one of the organisers…1/
Way back in the pre-crash boom period, Gordon Brown as Chancellor hosted one of his big global investment conferences at the QEII in London.
Muggins here, a junior Treasury official, had a cheap seat as one of the organisers…1/
THAT ISN'T THE CHATHAM HOUSE RULE
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is such a good story!
Yep. As she says. But Sauna!!!
So far would say 5 go thro and 10 say goodbye - not a good year so far #Eurovision
May 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Yep. As she says. But Sauna!!!
Reposted by Tomas Weiss
Donald Trump has dedicated his life in politics with single-minded ferocity to one luminous goal: the utter and final destruction of the weekly magazine
April 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Donald Trump has dedicated his life in politics with single-minded ferocity to one luminous goal: the utter and final destruction of the weekly magazine
Reposted by Tomas Weiss
If it walks like insider trading, and it quacks like insider trading...
April 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If it walks like insider trading, and it quacks like insider trading...
A must read thread on the German coalition agreement and foreign policy!
German draft coalition agreement has been published.
What's in the agreement on foreign, security, defence policy, and Europe? 🧵
What's in the agreement on foreign, security, defence policy, and Europe? 🧵
April 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A must read thread on the German coalition agreement and foreign policy!
Genius!
theonion.com/rotation-of-...
theonion.com/rotation-of-...
Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness
NEW YORK—Millions of eyewitnesses watched in stunned horror Tuesday as light emptied from the sky, plunging the U.S. and neighboring countries into darkness. As the hours progressed, conditions only w...
theonion.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Genius!
theonion.com/rotation-of-...
theonion.com/rotation-of-...
Reposted by Tomas Weiss
Just to remind you that there is still time to apply for a full-time post doc at Charles University and work with us on reaction to foreign interference in the EU, NATO and their member states.
Let me know if you have any questions.
#AcademicSky #polisky #EUsky #research #researchjob
Let me know if you have any questions.
#AcademicSky #polisky #EUsky #research #researchjob
❗ CfA full-time postdoc position on foreign interference! ❗
Join us in Prague for research on foreign interference in the EU, NATO and their member states. A full-time research job for 42 months.
Deadline for applications: 17th March
Start date: July 2025
More info: ims.fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/post...
Join us in Prague for research on foreign interference in the EU, NATO and their member states. A full-time research job for 42 months.
Deadline for applications: 17th March
Start date: July 2025
More info: ims.fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/post...
Postdoctoral Research Position at the Institute of International Studies - INTERFER Project | IMS - Institut mezinárodních studií
The Institute of International Studies announces an open call for a postdoctoral research position within the project INTERFER, focused on foreign interference and national and international reactions...
ims.fsv.cuni.cz
March 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just to remind you that there is still time to apply for a full-time post doc at Charles University and work with us on reaction to foreign interference in the EU, NATO and their member states.
Let me know if you have any questions.
#AcademicSky #polisky #EUsky #research #researchjob
Let me know if you have any questions.
#AcademicSky #polisky #EUsky #research #researchjob
Surprise, surprise!
As the US guts its foreign aid programmes, China has put forward an alternative path that focuses on financing infrastructure projects rather than humanitarian aid. Many African leaders have said these projects are needed to lift their countries out of poverty www.ft.com/content/23e5...
March 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Surprise, surprise!
Just to remind you that there is still time to apply for a full-time post doc at Charles University and work with us on reaction to foreign interference in the EU, NATO and their member states.
Let me know if you have any questions.
#AcademicSky #polisky #EUsky #research #researchjob
Let me know if you have any questions.
#AcademicSky #polisky #EUsky #research #researchjob
❗ CfA full-time postdoc position on foreign interference! ❗
Join us in Prague for research on foreign interference in the EU, NATO and their member states. A full-time research job for 42 months.
Deadline for applications: 17th March
Start date: July 2025
More info: ims.fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/post...
Join us in Prague for research on foreign interference in the EU, NATO and their member states. A full-time research job for 42 months.
Deadline for applications: 17th March
Start date: July 2025
More info: ims.fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/post...
Postdoctoral Research Position at the Institute of International Studies - INTERFER Project | IMS - Institut mezinárodních studií
The Institute of International Studies announces an open call for a postdoctoral research position within the project INTERFER, focused on foreign interference and national and international reactions...
ims.fsv.cuni.cz
March 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just to remind you that there is still time to apply for a full-time post doc at Charles University and work with us on reaction to foreign interference in the EU, NATO and their member states.
Let me know if you have any questions.
#AcademicSky #polisky #EUsky #research #researchjob
Let me know if you have any questions.
#AcademicSky #polisky #EUsky #research #researchjob
Díky Honzovi Burešovi a @brestan.bsky.social za pozvání do Makromixéru. Mluvili jsme o evropské bezpečnosti, o obranném průmyslu, transatlantických vztazích a tak podobně. Otázky byly skvělé, odpovědi snad dostačovaly. Můžete se rozhodnout sami: 1url.cz/v16zK
MakroMixér Jana Bureše a Roberta Břešťana s Tomášem Weissem 2/2025
MakroMixér Jana Bureše a Roberta Břešťana · Episode
1url.cz
March 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Díky Honzovi Burešovi a @brestan.bsky.social za pozvání do Makromixéru. Mluvili jsme o evropské bezpečnosti, o obranném průmyslu, transatlantických vztazích a tak podobně. Otázky byly skvělé, odpovědi snad dostačovaly. Můžete se rozhodnout sami: 1url.cz/v16zK