Eli Gateva

Bohemia Illiberalis? Perspectives on Czechia’s Future Democratic Landscape and Foreign Policy After the Elections Where is Czechia headed after the 2025 parliamentary election? Join our discussion on October 6 (Monday) at 3:00 p.m. CET.

Bohemia Illiberalis?🇨🇿
Join us for a post-election briefing with the great @petraguasti.bsky.social, Andrea Michalcová & Vit Dostál and discuss the democracy & foreign policy related implications of the 🇨🇿 election results.
📅October 6, 3:00 pm CET / 9:00 am EDT
RSVP 👉 www.authlib.eu/event-bohemi...

Listen to our series developed in partnership with @jodemocracy.bsky.social
which discusses essential contributions made to their most recent issue on a rolling basis
revdem.ceu.edu/category/jou...

Technology fellow 2025 The Centre for European Reform is looking for a technology fellow to join its research team.

@centreeuropeanref.bsky.social is looking for a technology fellow to join its research team.

Please see the #job description and details on how to apply below 👇

Deadline for applications 19/09/25

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Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

A guaranteed no-go because of the symbolism— a repeat of the 1994 betrayal, hosted by the most anti-Ukrainian European leader who eyes pieces of Ukraine. A reminder that Trump’s « peacemaking » skews heavily towards Ru.

Also, there will likely be no Pu-Zelensky meeting anywhere.

The frontlines in Donbas are strategically the same for 2yrs now. Ru can’t conquer it. If Ru truly cared about control of Donbas only, it would have proposed “land for peace” 2yrs ago. “We just want Donbas” is the new version of “we just want Crimea” and it’s the exact same bald-faced lie.

We are looking for 1–2 postdoctoral researchers to join the project “Political Violence in Democracies”, led by @hannefjelde.bsky.social

📌 Full-time, 2-year postdoctoral position
📆 Start Date: Dec 1, (or by agreement)
📍 Location: Uppsala
⏳ Apply by: Oct 1

Read more: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Ukraine Repels a Russian Offensive, as Putin Seeks Trump Talks The fight for northern Ukraine’s Sumy province shows how neither Moscow nor Kyiv has gained a clear battlefield advantage.

Western media should say more often and more explicitly that Ru's main summer offensive FAILED. It's important context for the upcoming negotiations. Ru is failing and thus its maximalist demands on Ukraine should not be taken seriously.
www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

BISCA PhD Studentships - University of Birmingham PhD opportunities in Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA) at the University of Birmingham.

Know a potential PhD student interested in #democraticresilience, environmental politics & the Baltics? If so pls encourage them to check out this funded studentship & chance to work with my wonderful colleagues Licia Cianetti and Fiona Nunan. For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

Many thanks to Ana Bojinović Fenko, Katarzyna Walecka, András Bíró-Nagy Gergő Medve-Bálint, Roderick Pace, Lenka Buštíková, Piret Ehin, Fadil Ersozer, Lelde Luika, Karen Henderson and Ramūnas Vilpišauskas for their insightful contributions and to Stuart Braun for his generous support of the project.

Big bang enlargement series - EUROPP This series was put together by Dr Eli Gateva (University of Oxford). You can cite the series using the following citation: Gateva, E (ed) (2024/2025) Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide – 20 Years s...

Looking for background reading on EU10 or just interested in European politics and European integration? Explore 'Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide – 20 Years since the Big Bang Enlargement' Blog Series: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/b... at @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

Paid research assistant opportunity with the British Election Study for UK-based graduate students. Help us validate turnout in our surveys against Electoral Commission records

Less than a week left to register for the UACES 55th Annual Conference 2025⏲️

Join us in Liverpool for stimulating panels, networking events and standout plenaries.

Register via our website: www.uaces.org/liverpool

Registration closes this Sunday 27 July. Don’t miss out.

#UACES2025

Working with @lotemhalevy.bsky.social was super fun and super inspiring! I learned a lot from her about ugly times, my favorite kind of times to contemplate these days … to new scholarship on liberalism 🤩🥂📚

Important study www.kew.org.pl/wp-content/u...

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📘 Ever wondered what it's like to work for the EU? Apply for a Blue Book Traineeship!

✅ 5-month paid traineeship
✅ Starting March 2026
✅ Apply with any Bachelor’s degree
✅ Build skills, friendships, and your 🇪🇺 future

🗓️ Deadline: 29 Aug, 10:00
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Excited to announce the #OxfordLLMs tuition-free AI workshop for social scientists!

Join us for 5 days of lectures, coding tutorials, and collaborative research, to learn hot to use LLMs for social science🙂

Dates: 22-26 September
Venue: @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
llmsforsocialscience.net

Bulgaria’s geopolitical recategorization from USSR’s closest satellite to a member of core Europe is de facto complete. A historical achievement!

very happy to be part of this report by the fantastic Critical Infrastructure Lab & REDE.
The title of my short essay is
"We have never been sovereign? EU’s Digital transition from a CEE perspective"
www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/u...
It's not a bad read for an academic text :)

Putin and Trump Cannot Erase Ukraine, and Joint Efforts to Do So May Backfire To bring true peace to Ukraine, the Trump administration must understand that its interest lies in putting real pressure on Putin.

Our piece with @oxanashevel.bsky.social from March continues to provide the relevant frame of analysis. Trump and Pu couldn't force Ukr's diplomatic surrender and now Trump is helping Ru by withholding aid and lifting sanctions. How far will he go? www.justsecurity.org/109084/putin...

How to write even when the words won’t come Books, articles and grant proposals do not arrive in a single stroke. They are created, like sculptures, through a thousand small movements. Here, Catherine De Vries explains how to develop ‘skill pow...

Happy to share my thoughts on writing in Times Higher Education!

“Books, articles and grant proposals do not arrive in a single stroke. They are created, like sculptures, through a thousand small movements.”

This is what I call skillpower.

1/2

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-w...

🤩 Out and #openaccess, thanks to @tandfresearch.bsky.social @esrciaasurrey.bsky.social, why it is important to learn about these women’s role in the early years of European integration, where my study identifies distinct career trajectories @cbesurrey.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Academics... shocking discovery by me today.

Reviewers of an economics journal used to be - in living memory - thanked for their services by delivery of a CASE OF WINE.

What have we let happen?!?!

For non-academics: we do this entirely for free now, usually out of work hours, under pressure.

The largest % of Brits know climate change is real, want the govt to do something about it, and are *very* happy to accept renewables as solutions.

Labour should not allow Farage to weaponize net zero, which he has such a weak case for. So many reasons to push forward with a just energy transition.

Interested in studying Europe and European integration? Ana Bojinović Fenko explores how Slovenia has changed after two decades of EU membership, part of series on Rethinking Europe's East-West Divide - 20 Years since the Big Bang Enlargement @eastwestdivide.bsky.social @uaces.bsky.social

CPAC in Poland and Hungary — giving European grievances US dollars Many still see Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as a fringe gathering of ultra-nationalists, with no risk to our political systems. In reality this 'MAGA roadshow' is now a venue for un...

Ignore the Polish and Hungarian CPACs at your peril.

euobserver.com/eu-political...

Thinking of joining us in Liverpool for the UACES 55th Annual Conference 2025?

Find out what to expect, and how to register on our website: www.uaces.org/liverpool.

Registration is open now until 27 July – but register before 1 June to take advantage of early bird rates!

#UACES2025

First post on Bsky after a very successful detox from social media.
Paradoxically, a post on our paper with @alvarooleart.bsky.social on how the EU failed to invest in alternatives and why it *did not* become a normative leader in regulating Tech.
Out today:
www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

✍️ In the first part of his article, @danielhegedus.bsky.social recounts the background of the termination of US Government Assistance and its immediate financial consequences for the CSO sector in Central and Eastern Europe.

🧑‍💻 Read it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/4zfkzvfj

Bridging the gap between research and policy in international affairs: A practitioner’s perspective Drawing on extensive experience in EU external action and diplomacy, Giulio Venneri will present key insights from his recently published book 'Learning Policy Advice in International Affairs and Dipl...

Interested in informing policymaking or pursuing a career in diplomacy? Join us on 29 May at 5pm at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/e2e... @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social