Jonas Heering

Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo?

The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?

Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
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Ahead of tomorrow's hearing on European "censorship" of Americans under the Digital Services Act, I have a new blog post explaining why that is not a thing.

You can get the gist in about two minutes of skimming the bold text, or stay for the details.

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This is the coverage of Trump's high tariffs on India in one prominent Indian financial paper. economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/i...

Excited to report my article "Digital Interdependence and Power Politics" has been published open access in @bjpols.bsky.social. I use internet measurements to understand how international security influences global data flows www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Notable that Ron Estes, the ‘revenge tax’ author and influential Republican, supports a US return to the multilateral bargaining table on digital taxes:

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Digital Governance in a Rubber Band: Structural Constraints in Governing a Global Digital Economy Abstract. The United States, the European Union, and China are often portrayed as representing three competing models of digital governance. Their so-calle

In the latest issue of Global Studies Quarterly, Lars Gjesvik and I develop a conceptual argument to analyze the evolution of digital governance strategies in the 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺 and 🇨🇳. A short thread🧵

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Looking forward to the EUSA conference in Philly this week. Come by Friday, 8 May at 5:30 for my talk on how the introduction of security logics into EU politics may reshape Europe. More info here: bit.ly/4lA5Civ

Model to Meaning: How to interpret statistical models with marginaleffects for R and Python

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Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!

Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.

Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com

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Latombe Case: First hearing for annulment of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework On April 1st, 2025, the General Court of the European Union held its first hearing on the request initiated by member of French parliament Philippe Latombe for annulment of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Fr...

General Court of EU hearing on suspension of Data Privacy Framework, and it "should issue a decision for this main proceeding in a few weeks or months." www.hoganlovells.com/en/publicati...

Seems relatively clear that UK officials are laying the groundwork for concessions on the UK digital services tax. The DST absolutely can't "continue to garner significant revenue" if you exempt targeted sectors or tax profits instead of revenue. Those things are the whole point of the tax.

EU risks more Trump tariffs in looming Big Tech crackdown A series of decisions against Apple, Meta and Google could open up a new front in the EU-U.S. trade war.

A series of European Commission decisions on whether top Big Tech companies are in breach of the bloc's digital competition laws could open up a new front in the EU-US trade war.

I'm excited to report that "Digital Interdependence and Power Politics" has been conditionally accepted at BJPS. I learned how to be a political scientist by iterating versions of this paper. The next thing this paper will teach me is how to use natbib.

The tariff threat might deter some countries from following through on DSTs but if enough hold firm, proliferation of DSTs might lead US businesses to lobby a for multilateral solution again.

What's next? ~30 countries have implemented DSTs, some of them are inactive. Over 100 have indirect taxes, like VATs, which Trump also does not like. As the OECD deal falls apart, more countries might (re-)instate DSTs, creating uncertainty for US tech companies.

Trump orders trade chief to revive tariff retaliation against digital taxes President Donald Trump on Friday ordered his trade chief to revive investigations aimed at imposing tariffs on imports from countries that levy digital service taxes on U.S. technology companies.

Fight over Digital Services Taxes is back on as Trump threatens tariffs on countries that collect DSTs. As @abenewman.bsky.social, Lori Crasnic & I argue, DSTs were key to getting to the 2021 OECD global tax deal, which has now stalled: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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We argued that the European Commission agreed to the DPF to buy time, in part with the hope that privacy protections might improve in the US or the ECJ's veto point might shift. But these recent developments suggest the deal might be challenged sooner rather than later.

Max Schrems, whose lawsuits brought down of the first 2 transatlantic data transfer agreements, notes "the deal was always built on sand" & that the "EU agreed to executive promises that can be overturned in seconds." Permanent changes to the PCLOB might trigger Schrems III. noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-...

Purging the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) raises serious questions about the viability of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This agreement was already built on shaky grounds, as @gbeaumier.bsky.social, @abenewman.bsky.social, and I outline:
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Running out the digital clock: transatlantic privacy politics and veto points in time Why does the European Commission continue to sign onto unstable international data flow agreements with the United States? After two agreements were struck down by the European Court of Justice, an...

In a recent article with @abenewman.bsky.social and @jonasheering.bsky.social, we highlight how despite a veneer of cooperation, transatlantic data flows remain constantly at risk of costly disruption. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

EU fines itself over data transfer violation | ICLG General Court orders European Commission to pay damages over personal data transfer to the US.

The European Court of Justice's decision to fine the Commissions for its role in enabling the transfer of European personal data to the US highlights the continuous conflict over data regulation across the Atlantic.
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Economic risk perceptions and willingness to learn about globalization: A field experiment with migrants and other underprivileged groups in Vietnam by Niccolò W. Bonifai, Edmund J. Malesky, and Nita Rudra is now available in Early View. ajps.org/2024/11/20/e...

When digital taxes come due: national digital taxes and the negotiation of the OECD inclusive framework What explains major shifts in international tax cooperation? Existing literature emphasises either the centrality of the United States for successful reform or the power of multinational corporatio...

How did we get global tax reform? Unilateral digital taxes in Europe and India played a key role. More generally signals how national rules can provoke multilateral negotiations. New work with Jonas Heering and Lori Crasnic.
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Announcing the Good Authority fellows program Apply by Jan. 15, 2024 for the Good Authority fellowship and be a regular contributor to our blog on politics and political science.

We at @goodauth.bsky.social are excited to share this call for the Good Authority fellows program. Deadline is January 15. Application is brief. Please share!

(And yes, in my mind, I'm calling it goodfellas.)

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