Gabriel Siles-Brügge

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An absolute pleasure to host @mcopelov.bsky.social for his insightful & provocative talk. Lots for EU Studies to learn from IPE! 🎙️A recording will be posted soon and the text 📝 of the lecture will appear next year in the pages of the journal. Thanks also to @ces-europe.bsky.social for hosting!

🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨

Volume 63, Issue 4 of JCMS is out now! 🌍

Explore key debates on EU funding, Euroscepticism, foreign policy and more.

Edited by @cardwellpj.bsky.social, @rguerrina.bsky.social, and @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social 📚

Read the new issue here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965...

✍️ If you are a scholar working in EU Studies and comparative regionalism, please do send us your best work! We're a multi-disciplinary, methodologically and theoretically pluralist journal open to the full range of rigorous work in our scope. We also publish policy commentaries.

What’s happened to ‘Global Britain’? - UK in a changing Europe Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge, and Darrin McDonald argue that trade deals agreed by the UK government since Brexit are limited in their...

"[The] UK-US trade deal illustrates what has become a common feature of contemporary trade politics. Economic considerations have given way to the desire to perform sovereignty for its own sake."

Tony Heron, @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social & Darrin McDonald on trade deals👇

Check out this blog post on the death of 'Global Britain', which draws on our open access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social on the performance of trade policy:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

JCMS is pleased to announce that from 2027, there will be two special issues published per year. 📚

We’re currently inviting proposals for the Spring and Autumn 2027 Special Issues.

For more details, see the full call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

New JCMS Issue! 🚨

Editors @cardwellpj.bsky.social, @rguerrina.bsky.social and @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social have curated another insightful issue exploring new perspectives on European Studies. Congrats to all the authors for their dedication to the field! 📚

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965...

Performing trade: ‘Global Britain’ and the UK’s post-Brexit free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand Why did the United Kingdom (UK) prioritise post-Brexit free trade agreements (FTAs) with Australia and New Zealand, despite the almost negligible economic benefits on offer? We address this puzzle ...

🚨 New #OpenAccess publication in @ripejournal.bsky.social, together with Tony Heron (York) and Darrin McDonald (Leeds Beckett).

Do have a read by clicking on the link below! ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks Mark! Went with a slightly different literature here, as the backstage/front stage distinction wasn't the main focus.

Weekly round-up! 📚

It has been a busy month for JCMS, with new and insightful research being published every week.

Here are some articles you may have missed ➡️ bit.ly/3RAuaKv

@cardwellpj.bsky.social @rguerrina.bsky.social @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social

In the conclusion, we highlight how there are some important lessons here for the study of trade policy in the age of #Trump and the unilateral imposition of tariffs. This is performative trade policy par excellence.

Rather than a focus on the content of trade policy, what we argue that the desire to perform trade policy independence was the key driving factor of UK trade policy in this period.

We focus on the UK's post #Brexit trade policy, and specifically its free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand to highlight the importance of practices and performativity in trade policy.

Performing trade: ‘Global Britain’ and the UK’s post-Brexit free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand Why did the United Kingdom (UK) prioritise post-Brexit free trade agreements (FTAs) with Australia and New Zealand, despite the almost negligible economic benefits on offer? We address this puzzle ...

🚨 New #OpenAccess publication in @ripejournal.bsky.social, together with Tony Heron (York) and Darrin McDonald (Leeds Beckett).

Do have a read by clicking on the link below! ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks Toni! You too!

New Fellow @tonihaastrup.bsky.social is Chair in Global Politics at official-uom.bsky.social! Her research explores power hierarchies in global politics & encompasses a range of topics within international studies incl. feminist foreign policies & global inequalities. acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...

Beyond delighted to be elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences! Truly an honour, and I look forward to supporting the work of the Academy. Congratulations too to my @jcms-eu.bsky.social co-editors @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social @rguerrina.bsky.social & UACES chair @tonihaastrup.bsky.social

Congratulations to:

- Professor Christopher Hill
- Professor @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
- Professor Helena Farrand Carrapico
- Professor @cardwellpj.bsky.social
- Professor @rguerrina.bsky.social
- Professor @tonihaastrup.bsky.social

Who have been awarded @acadsocsciences.bsky.social Fellowships!

The only dampener is that this news comes as my employer, the University of Bristol, has announced a cost-cutting strategy that threatens the social sciences (and arts and humanities) at the University: www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

I also want to acknowledge the @uob-policystudies.bsky.social, which has been a wonderful environment to work over the past year and a half - providing a rich and stimulating interdisciplinary setting for teaching and research. I am really proud to work here.

I also want to acknowledge @uaces.bsky.social Chair @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, who is also joining the Academy and with whom I have also really enjoyed working over the years. This signals the real impact the European Studies is having on the academy and further afield.

It is an absolutely privilege to be joining the Academy of Social Sciences, which does such important work to promote these disciplines at a time where they face really challenging times. It is doubly rewarding to be joining at the same time as my fellow @jcms-eu.bsky.social editors.

These consultancies remind me of Cornish wreckers in the c18th, luring ships onto the rocks. Unis think they can see a lighthouse with harbour, but ooh no it isn't. They thought they were being sold safety, but in fact they've been handed a doomsday device. And they don't even know it! (3/3) /END

By loading all the functions on the centre, you increase the data stress there to intolerable levels, and it collapses. You also ramp up costs that the thinner and thinner 'lower' offer cannot meet. You do quality and reputational harm that is likely impossible to repair. (2/2)

One underreported facet of the Great University Crisis is the contribution of a small number of consultancy firms who recommend:
*Centralise functions
*Cut small courses
*Reduce student options
*Abolish loads of joint awards
*Chop staff headcount
This is *exactly* what you must not do. (1/3)

'The University of Bristol has embarked on a path like a death spiral' UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus

It's really saddening to have to post this about my own institution, but the University of Bristol is planning to embark on a cost-cutting exercise that threatens the viability of scholarship in the arts, humanities and social sciences: www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

Of course. That's how the Cost Allocation Fallacy works. An error so basic an A-Level Business Studies student would write about it in an exercise.

'The University of Bristol has embarked on a path like a death spiral' UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus

The university death spiral is everywhere, and for everyone: they're all just on a convoy into the same black hole. Oxbridge, LSE and Imperial excepted, they must all *necessarily and inevitably* end up crushed to the size of an Oxo cube if we go on like this.
www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

Possibly of interest to you @gsoh31.bsky.social