Hubert Zimmermann

U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...

(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..

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Legitimising and Delegitimising Military Engagement Abroad: An Inquiry Into U.S. Debates on the Continuity of Intervention in the Middle East - Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik Given the current instability in the Middle East and America’s traditional role as a mediator, the debate over U.S. engagement in the region is an important indicator of the trajectory of U.S. foreign...

My take on future US policy in the Middle East

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Bei allen Hoffnungen sollten wir das nicht vergessen:

And by the way: the peer-reviewed journal model is also dead. A good part of the articles I read in IR journals could be composed easily by AI

Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

It’s back to university education
of the 14th to early 20th century, as this NYT article argues: …moving away from take-home assignments and toward in-class blue book essays, oral exams, required office hrs..for students to demonstrate knowledge in real time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Accordingly, the future of teaching will ‚mark a return to the original purpose of universities as spaces for cultivating gifted minds, rather than institutions designed to accommodate the masses.‘

AI redefines international relations teaching - Junotane How many International Relations (IR) professors have used Google’s new AI tool NotebookkLM? Just wondering, because it basically makes what you do everyday, absolutely pointless!

Preparing the next semester teaching IR and polisci, I can not overcome the feeling that due to AI much of our work has become obsolete. As this blog post calls it, a ‚Ponzi scheme’ in which most of what we do is ‚fake’. junotane.com/posts/ai-red...

US Frowns on Italy’s Idea of Making Sicily Bridge a NATO Asset The US said it disapproves of any creative accounting by European allies to reach a new NATO spending target, putting Italy on the spot as the government weighs whether to count the construction of th...

ops..."US Pushes Back on Italy Counting Sicily Bridge as NATO Asset" (yet, still not clear how Italy had mysteriously reached the 2%...) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
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Es ist peinlich, dass so viele politische Akteure in Deutschland immer wieder 1:1 die Position des Kreml nachsingen. Das ist im Grunde ein Verrat an den deutschen Interessen von so manchem, der so tut, als sei er ein ganz besonders guter Deutscher.

Two new interdisciplinary English-taught MA programs at the University of Marburg on research in political and social science!🧐 Discover more about these innovative programs and how to apply here: www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb03/stud...

In a Win for Trump, NATO Agrees to a Big Increase in Military Spending

What a silly headline. With a threatening Russia and an erratic US, a rise in defense spending would have happened any way. and the 5% or 2% numbers are meaningless as burden sharing research has demonstrated often enough www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/w...

The Night Chancellor Merz Changed His Mind About Donald Trump The incoming German chancellor campaigned as a debt hawk. Then a source told him about Trump’s plans for NATO.

Scholz and his designated successor agree that something historic happened that day in Washington. The Americans are threatening not only to abandon Ukraine but also all their allies“

Fascinating background reporting on how German Leaders realized that US support of NATO is no longer reliable.

Die Polizei in Washington hat einen 80-jährigen Veteranen festgenommen, der gegen Trumps Militärparade protestierte. Man bleibt sprachlos zurück.
Video via Republicans against Trump.

This interpretation (in German) suggests that’Sloop John B’ is a strong contender songlexikon.de/songs/sloopj...

This is an insane chart

Ein herzlicher Dank geht an @andrealiese.bsky.social, @hubzimm.bsky.social, Andreas Hasenclever, Thomas Gehring, Maike Messerschmidt, Manuel Becker und Mathies Kempken, die mit ihren hochkarätigen Beiträgen das Buch möglich gemacht haben.

Kyjiw heute Nacht. Eine der schlimmsten Nächte, die ich erlebt habe. Russland hat die Ukraine nach Informationen der Luftwaffe mit 14 ballistischen Raketen und 250 Drohnen angegriffen.

Wenn dieser Terror nach 1186 Tagen möglich ist, reicht der Druck auf den Aggressor nicht aus.

Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex

A depressing experiment: what happens when the most powerful country is put in the service of the bottomless greed of a small oligarchy www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...

And what a coincidence: Strengthening this team is a world class player in terms of suspected corruption, the FIFA President

Ernst Fraenkel über den Dual State: wieder ein lesenswerter Artikel des Atlantic

It's impossible and irresponsible to assign takehome papers any more. It's either writing, by hand, in class, or oral exams, or some other type of active project (I had students go to the library archive, conduct interviews, document their archival research etc). No papers, no reading reports. Hell.

Exclusive | U.S. Plans to Use Tariff Negotiations to Isolate China Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants trading partners to limit China’s involvement in their economies in exchange for concessions on reciprocal tariffs.

1/ US tariff omnishambles part 2: If the US hoped that tariffs could help create an anti-China bloc, they look to be having the opposite effect. The end result has been to create uncertainty amongst or closest allies and push many third countries closer to China.

Pope‘s last order to his subordinates: ‚You couldn’t keep them away? So go down to the piazza and check if they have some leftover chocolate eggs at the kiosk, but not the expensive ones.‘
RIP

Besser: das wir waren

Militärische Missionen, Kriegstüchtigkeit und Friedensverhandlungen Woop! Woop! In unsicheren Zeiten sprechen Politiker von "Kriegstüchtigkeit" und ich dafür mit Ole Nymeon warum junge Menschen auch "Gegen die Kriegstüchtigkeit" (Rowohlt) sein können. Mit Hubert Zimme...

In unsicheren Zeiten sprechen Politiker von Krieg und ich dafür mit Ole Nymeon warum junge Menschen auch "Gegen die #Kriegstüchtigkeit" @rowohlt.bsky.social sein können. Mit @hubzimm.bsky.social geht es zudem um die Hintergründe von "Militärische Missionen"

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Whether a deliberate missile strike or a reckless, misguided attack, today’s heinous Russian assault on Sumy follows a familiar pattern.

Europeans travelling to US

BSky Community: Has anybody (besides me) put a moratorium to conference attendances in the US or research stays there, as long as the current anti-academic policy continues? Asking for a media request just to get a general idea

Japan says it wants to join a NATO command for the support of Ukraine Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani says Japan wants to participate in a NATO command for its Ukrainian mission as Japan increasingly steps up military ties with the largely European security organ...

missed this one last night: "Japan expressed interest Tuesday in participating in the NATO command for its Ukrainian mission based in Germany in what would be a major boost in ties with the largely European alliance."