Pleased to share our new article in which we critically engage with the role that the “categories of migration” play in determining who does and does not “belong” in Europe and how they are changing.
08.10.2025 07:04 — 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0@hannesbaumann.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool, Arab states' political economy. Views my own, not my employer's. Author "Citizen Hariri: Lebanon's neoliberal reconstruction". He/him
Pleased to share our new article in which we critically engage with the role that the “categories of migration” play in determining who does and does not “belong” in Europe and how they are changing.
08.10.2025 07:04 — 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0Building on our workshop last year on The Global Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work, @stellamorgana.bsky.social and I are delighted to share a collection of 6 original commentary articles on this theme in @gpejournal.bsky.social
Read the full introduction here: doi.org/10.1332/2635...
Sharon Lifschitz, whose parents were kidnapped on Oct 7 and only her mother returned alive, writes on the two year anniversary to the massacres.
"We know that hate and revenge cannot bring even a momentary relief from the pain."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
💥New: Academic careers have become a professional sport
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Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social
06.10.2025 13:05 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1... not that swap lines weren't "political" before, but the authors of the FT piece detect a change in the quality of this politicisation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
03.10.2025 13:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"The Treasury’s decision to offer a “swap” in Argentina is really a signal that Washington is willing to wield its financial tools for political purposes in ways that depart from past norms. If that approach extends to the Fed...consequences for global stability could be profound." on.ft.com/4pPdCOz
03.10.2025 13:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The authors provide clear visualization of their data as they trace the connections between firms within states and across states, and they identify the directors who serve as nodes in the growing pan-Arab corporatism.
26.09.2025 13:20 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0New open-access analysis in a sneak peek of our fall issue: @hannesbaumann.bsky.social and Alice Hooper trace the development of a pan-Arab corporate elite shifting demands on regimes toward “further neoliberal restructuring and regional economic integration.”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings
02.10.2025 09:49 — 👍 196 🔁 145 💬 27 📌 91In a new report, HRW, Syrians for Truth and Justice, and Syrian Archive document widespread abuses by government forces, government-aligned armed groups, and armed volunteers, including summary executions, deliberate destruction of property, and abuse of detainees.
23.09.2025 20:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
01.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 29 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2Spannende Vortragsreihe an meiner Alma Mater der @uni-hamburg.de koordiniert u.a. von @janwilkens.bsky.social
01.10.2025 13:48 — 👍 19 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1"When radical-right words come from Labour mouths, the nativist and illiberal values attached to these words become increasingly normalised, shifting the boundaries of what is politically acceptable... It’s time for Labour to engage in some self-reflection about the type of party it wants to be."
26.09.2025 16:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0they're ringing that UNGA bell SO hard to try and get people to sit down again for the next speech but they should just let these people run around the chamber and scream like toddlers for a few minutes and get it out of their system before making them sit back down
23.09.2025 15:09 — 👍 244 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 3I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“The more the German industry continues to focus on phasing out niche technologies […] the easier it becomes for Chinese companies to expand their lead in batteries and new electronic vehicle architectures.”
Remarkable op-ed by former VW boss Herbert Diess.
www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/...
Why is this horrible for Universities?
Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card.
This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"
I wrote for @theguardian.com about the “Unite the Kingdom” rally.
High time to pull head out of the sand and learn from other countries — if only on what NOT to do!
Mariam is one of tens of thousands of people in Gaza who have been injured & disfigured by Israeli military attacks.
As well as losing her arm, she has severe abdominal and pelvic injuries. She is stranded in Egypt & cannot get a visa to be treated in the US.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Wow- "Saudi Arabia has signed a 'strategic mutual defence' pact with Pakistan, signalling to the US and Israel that the kingdom is willing to diversify its security alliances as it looks to bolster its deterrence"
www.ft.com/content/50a4...
One of the houses was a glass house.
17.09.2025 14:10 — 👍 37 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0Early View of Fall 2025 issue examines dehumanization in Gaza, what’s next after the US-Israel war on Iran, pan-Arab corporate elite, regional trade and conflict. Analyses by Yagil Levy, @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social, @hannesbaumann.bsky.social, many others.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754967...
Seit heute ist unsere @interactfu.bsky.social Studie zu Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Selbstzensur unter Nahostforschenden online.
Für @tagesspiegel.de hat @jmwiarda.bsky.social die Ergebnisse zusammengefasst:
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Zur Studie: www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/Grimm-D...
See the latest research on civil society organizations from our Senior Lecturer Özge Zihnioğlu
@ozihnioglu.bsky.social here 📚✏️
Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march
It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear
The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.
🎉After the @ipegbisa.bsky.social AGM we have now moved on to our final panel of the day!
🌎We hear from Paolo Stohlman global financial regulation and @hannesbaumann.bsky.social on the changing role of Gulf states in reproducing US dollar dominance.
Now open: BGSMCS PhD Call 2026. 2 Gerda Henkel scholarships for historically focused projects plus 8 places with support to secure external funding.
Deadline 1 Nov 2025
Q&A 23 Sep, 14:00 CET
www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/announcement...
Please share with interested students!
WSJ with more details on the Israeli attack on Qatar - 10 missiles fired from long range to avoid Saudi/UAE airspace, only vague warning to US in advance
www.wsj.com/world/middle...