Clara Weinhardt

How can strategic political communications bolster more effective, robust, and democratic global governance?👉Find out on Sept 9 @ 18:00, at the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Berlin.

Register by Sept 8: ensuredinberlin.eventbrite.com

@claraweinhardt.bsky.social @gppi.bsky.social @maastrichtu.bsky.social

🏆✨Congratulations to @claraweinhardt.bsky.social on winning the #FASoS Valorisation Prize for her project "The EU’s #Geo-economic Turn and Developing Countries."

3) The effects of the geo-economic turn on the WTO system are unlikely to make it more feasible to push for an agenda focused on "inclusiveness".

2) While past reform efforts focussed largely on effectiveness, concerns about defending the robustness of the Hashtag#WTO are increasing - also in light of budget freezes by the US for 2024 and 2025 and upcoming budget negotiation in July.

Key messages:
1) Prospects for reform remain low, as even in the pre-Trump 2.0 era, major actors (EU, US, China, India) disagreed strongly on how to make the organisation more effective.

Revitalising and Reforming the World Trade Organization in an Age of Geopolitics - Research Report | ENSURED How are rising geopolitical tensions and recent US tariffs threatening the future of the World Trade Organization (WTO)? A renewed focus on safeguarding the institution’s robustness may be essential f...

Last week, Michal Parizek and I hdiscussed our first @ensured.bsky.social report on reforming the WTO in an age of geopolitics in the policy-oriented webinar series on *Inclusive Geoeconomics* by the BKHS.
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@fasosmaastricht.bsky.social @gppi.bsky.social

Emerging Powers in the World Trading System: Contestation of the Developing Country Status and the Reproduction of Inequalities This article investigates discursive struggles over the boundaries of the categorisation of developing countries in the world trade regime. A key principle of the World Trade Organization (WTO) gra...

Our 2nd monthly pick for June is "Emerging Powers in the World Trading System: Contestation of the Developing Country Status and the Reproduction of Inequalities" by @claraweinhardt.bsky.social‬ (‪@fasosmaastricht.bsky.social‬).

#Trade #WTO #OpenAccess

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Revitalising and Reforming the World Trade Organization in an Age of Geopolitics - Research Report | ENSURED How are rising geopolitical tensions and recent US tariffs threatening the future of the World Trade Organization (WTO)? A renewed focus on safeguarding the institution’s robustness may be essential f...

🚨New @ensured.bsky.social Research: How are rising #geopolitical tensions threatening @wto.org?
Michal Parizek & @claraweinhardt.bsky.social explore the prospects & limitations for meaningful WTO reform given rising economic #nationalism & escalating #trade tensions👇 tinyurl.com/5n6mv4rn

Revitalising and Reforming the World Trade Organization in an Age of Geopolitics - Research Report | ENSURED How are rising geopolitical tensions and recent US tariffs threatening the future of the World Trade Organization (WTO)? A renewed focus on safeguarding the institution’s robustness may be essential f...

The WTO is one of the most embattled institutions of global governance. But, despite attempts, reforms have mostly failed.

🔎 In a new report, ENSURED's Michal Parizek (@charlesuni.cuni.cz) & @claraweinhardt.bsky.social (@fasosmaastricht.bsky.social) take stock & see where change may be possible.
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Publications | ENSURED: Shaping Cooperation for a World in Transition

Find the @ensured.bsky.social reports here: www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications

Revitalising and Reforming the World Trade Organization in an Age of Geopolitics - Research Report | ENSURED How are rising geopolitical tensions and recent US tariffs threatening the future of the World Trade Organization (WTO)? A renewed focus on safeguarding the institution’s robustness may be essential f...

✨ New ENSURED Research: How are rising geopolitical tensions threatening the #WTO?

Michal Parizek @charlesuni.cuni.cz & I @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social explore the prospects for WTO reform given rising economic nationalism & escalating trade tensions
👉 www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications...

Thanks to the United States Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer and his team for a tough but very productive meeting on the present trade and tariff situation, as well as specific WTO issues including much needed reforms and repositioning.

YouTube video by Hertie School Politikwissenschaft im Gespräch100 Tage Trump II: Eine erste Bilanz der neuen Wirtschaftspolitik

In case you missed our roundtable “100 days of Trump: an initial assessment of economic policies” at @hertieschool.bsky.social last week, you can now watch the recording (in German): www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyrT... @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social 👇

--> Protectionism ≠ end of globalization – but a new phase of economic fragmentation

Thanks for hosting us and to the audience for coming! Conversations will continue @ensured.bsky.social where we research the defence and transformation of multilateralism #WTO.

My two cents on #Trump's #trade policy:
--> Despite all the back and forth: Trump’s trade policy represents a fundamental challenge to the rules-based global trading system

-->No serious effort to renegotiate global trade rules – attempt to unilaterally enforce US “vision” of global economic order

Had the opportunity to speak at the roundtable “100 days of Trump: an initial assessment of economic policies” at @hertieschool.bsky.social, co-organised with @dvpw-ipe.bsky.social, with @benbraun.bsky.social, Laura von Daniels, Mark Hallerberg, @dmugge.bsky.social and @thomasrixen.bsky.social.

Banner für Event 100 Tage Trump II. Redner*innen sind Benjamin Braun, Laura von Daniels, Mark Hallerberg, Clara Weinhardt, und Daniel Mügge. Moderator: Thomas Rixen

What has Trump's 2nd term delivered in terms of economic policy so far? Join the discussion on 11/4, 1pm at the Hertie School. With @benbraun.bsky.social @mhallerberg.bsky.social @claraweinhardt.bsky.social and other experts: 100 Tage Trump II: Eine erste Bilanz der neuen Wirtschaft | Hertie School

It's been almost 100 days since Trump 2.0 began. What has the shake-up meant for the global economy – & what's coming?

Join us in Berlin to hear from experts, including ENSURED's @claraweinhardt.bsky.social.

📆 Fri, 11.04
📍 @hertieschool.bsky.social
🗣️ in DE
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Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy The Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy aims to establish a network of women working in political economy and to contribute to ameliorating existing gendered inequalities in the fi...

The Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy aims to address the continued underrepresentation of women in political economy. Join us!

📅 Cologne, September 22–25, 2025
👩‍🎓 For current PhD students or recent PhD graduates – free of charge
⏳ Apply by April 25, 2025

Excited to share that The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, is on its way!

Expected publication date is May 2025.

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Developing countries in global trade governance: comparing norms on inequality in the WTO and GSP schemes Global power shifts have led to pressure to adjust the rules of global trade governance to new realities. In this context, we look at changing norms on how to deal with inequality between countries...

📢 New Article! | Global power is shifting. How is that changing norms in global trade governance?

ENSURED's @claraweinhardt.bsky.social (@maastrichtu.bsky.social) & @debfrombrazil.bsky.social (University of New South Wales-Sydney) in @ripejournal.bsky.social.

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This is an amazing initiative, so female political economists (PhD or recent graduates), do apply!

Just ashamed of European academic institutions reacting to the authoritarian clampdown against our US colleagues with "look, we have nice jobs here". Do you think this is the kind of solidarity needed from us? What are you actually doing to strengthen academic freedom and to help those affected?

Come & join us 🤩

"A Stark Irony for Gender Equality": Anti-Rights Groups and the UN Commission on the Status of Women - Expert Blog | ENSURED The 69th UN Commission on the Status of Women takes place at time when anti-rights groups are rolling back human rights around the world. What does it mean for gender equality and how can Europe push ...

Today, the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) – the top 🌎 women’s rights forum – kicks off.

But despite its lofty mission, CSW69 is under threat from anti-rights actors.

On the ENSURED blog, Inés Pousadela & Jesselina Rana outline what to expect & how 🇪🇺 can support gender equality.

Day three at #ISA2025! Thanks to Raymond Wang for inviting me to a great panel on rising powers, with @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social @jcanfil.bsky.social and more. Conversation to be continued!

Packed room and motivated audience in windowless basement of ISA conference hotel on Sunday 4pm to present our @ensured.bsky.social project on EU support for global governance transformation

And, yes, the sun still in Chicago...

Our findings show different—and uneven—ways in which the global governance of inequality is changing in the trade realm.
- The WTO case shows that existing rules on developing countries remain stable. 
- In GSP, we find a seemingly arbitrary redrawing of the boundaries between developed/developing.

We show that:
- Norm resilience prevails in the WTO and norm modification in the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) case;
- In GSP, Global North ‘donors’ have tightened the bar for eligibility to the developing country group and added political criteria (such as good governance).

We look at changing norms on how to deal with inequality between countries in global trade governance. Are countries still divided into the binaries “developed” and “developing” to govern access to special flexibilities for those in a disadvantaged position in the global economy?