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๐ข Time to share the second GIES Honours Paper of the academic year!
In this series, outstanding Masterโs students have the opportunity to transform their theses into publishable articles.
In this paper, Robbe Du Pont examines the politics of drone armament.
Read more: www.ugent.be/ps/politieke...
Just as Ursula von der Leyen declared in her State of the Union that Europe is "on the path to energy independence," Trump has turned Europeโs energy lifeline into leverage.
How can Europe avoid this energy trap?
New essay by @thijsvandegraaf.bsky.social
big-europe.eu/publications...
๐ข Time to share the first GIES Honours Paper of the academic year! In this first paper, Maya Ikene examines how Morocco leverages its position in EU migration policy to gain political support for its territorial claim over the Western Sahara.
๐ Read more: www.ugent.be/ps/politieke...
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Registrations are open for our upcoming event on European Integration in the South Caucasus: Prospects for Armenia and Georgia.
event.ugent.be/registration...
Really enjoyed presenting our research w/Elisabed Gedevanishvili at the @europeamerica.bsky.social @leibniz-ios.de conference. We discussed how decoloniality is translated through cultural projects, the possibilities for queer solidarity & (weak) resistance in the Caucasus @giesugent.bsky.social
25.04.2025 19:09 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Inaugurating my bsky account to share our new article with Karolina Kluczewska, just published in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social๐
doi.org/10.1332/2515...
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We shared some of our first findings on @opendemocracy.net & @lseblogs.bsky.social ๐
Image of the first page of the article, with the title: 'The Power of Peers: A spatial analysis of nationally determined contributions' Abstract: The Paris Agreementโs pledge and review process was designed to ramp up climate ambition through norm-setting and repeated interactions. Yet this peer influence dynamic remains underexplored in analyses of the determinants of climate ambition. To address this gap, this paper examines whether the climate ambition of peer countries can explain climate ambition in subsequent rounds of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). This paper builds on and contributes to research on the Paris Agreement, the drivers of climate ambition, and the broader literature on soft governance. Using spatial regression models, the analysis incorporates peer pressure into spatial lags of first-round NDC ambition to assess patterns of convergence and divergence in the second round of NDCs. The results show that climate ambition for peer groups with high geopolitical affinity, similar levels of democracy, and regional similarity converges, while countries with similar income levels exhibit diverging ambition trends. These results underscore the interdependent nature of climate ambition and suggest that leveraging peer networks could enhance global climate cooperation under the Paris Agreement.
I'm very happy to see my paper on peer groups and climate ambition published in @climate-policy.bsky.social
I analysed whether there is a relationship between a country's NDC ambition, and the ambition levels of its peers. (spoilers: there are some!)
doi.org/10.1080/1469...
A new article by Katsiaryna Lozka has just been published in East European Politics
"From street protests to everyday life: politicisation of the Belarusian society after the 2020โ2021 National Awakening"
Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1080/2159...
Vanavond in #terzaketv: Wat staat er in deal tussen VS en Oekraรฏne? @thijsvandegraaf.bsky.social. @glandsbergis.bsky.social waarschuwt voor Russische dreiging. En moet Vlaams Parlement debatteren over WK Baanwielrennen? @pjdesmedt.bsky.social. Om 20u met @anneliesbeck.bsky.social
26.02.2025 18:23 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Lecture of Eureast Platform knowledge centre CERISE:
'Occupation: Russian rule in South-Eastern Ukraine' by David Lewis, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, moderated by Katsiaryna Lozka
27 February from 18:30 to 20:30, Campus UFO
Registration and info at: www.ugent.be/en/agenda/ru...
Our workshop on "political economy of the green transition" was intellectually stimulating, but also just great fun, thanks to our awesome group of smart, kind and generous participants.
And lunch was even (kind of) free!
The next two days, a workshop on the highly relevant topic of the political economy of the green transition will take place in Ghent, featuring a stellar line-up! ๐ฟ๐ก Iโm looking forward to discussing many fascinating papers! #GreenTransition #PoliticalEconomy #Ghent
05.02.2025 10:11 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Are you interested in following updates of research on international and European studies?
GIES (Ghent University) just joined BlueSky: @giesugent.bsky.social !
Find out more about the team of researchers at: www.ugent.be/ps/politieke...
GIES has built a research profile that encompasses six interrelated research themes, namely (1) climate, energy and environment, (2) global injustices, (3) geopolitics and strategy, (4) governance, (5) the EU and the world, and (6) international political economy.
www.ugent.be/ps/politieke...
