Kaija Schilde

Se øjeblikket, hvor statsministeren udskriver valg Statsminister Mette Frederiksen (S) har nu udskrevet folketingsvalg til afholdelse tirsdag den 24. marts. Hun understreger samtidig, at sikkerhedspolitik de næste mange år vil blive ”selve fundamentet...

Denmark's prime minister announces elections for 24 March.

Explicitly states that Denmark should contribute to defend Europe against the "Russian war machine in the East, AND THREATS FROM THE WEST"

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On the latter, it was an education (for me) to see 350+ 18 year olds who had just said they were post-gender come up with—down to the last individual—gender essentialist explanations (eg, women are better at writing, women take more humanities courses, etc). www.erinhengel.com/research/pub...

And then I showed them their own peer comments thanking me for having a “real IR professor“ guest lecture for me, that it was a relief to have that (male) expertise.

So I stopped teaching the theory—just empirical variation and asking them to hypothesize: why did civilian drone strike casualties go up/down in a conflict theatre? Why do female-name authors face 9 months more and more rounds of peer review, but higher output quality than male-name authors? Etc

when I taught intro IR a few years ago, got pushback from 18/19 yo’s during “gender and IR” week bc they said it was cringe because “their generation was past these issues“ and it was outdated bc of social progress wrt gender fluidity norms.

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Some Europeans have still not caught up to a world profoundly shaped by Chinas industrial policy.

A lot of hard pushback on targeted buy-European because it would reduce European competitiveness and product quality.

Reality, created by China, would disagree.

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Please. This is absurd. Europe can certainly deter Russia and defend itself if its focused and determined. Perpetuating a sense of European helplessness may help Rutte bureaucratically but its 1. wrong 2. prevents action. 3. willfully blind: the US ain't coming to defend Europe.

it’s a banger

Going back in time to tell 1980s Bill Kristol that he’s in a political coalition with socialists against American aggression but not to worry because a Franco-Swedish NATO task force will deter Washington.

EXCLUSIVE: Germany has joined France in saying it will ask the European Commission to explore unleashing the EU's so-called trade "bazooka" in response to Trump's threat to seize Greenland, according to five diplomats with knowledge of the situation.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...

big week for Fred Block enjoyers

Außenhändler zu Trumps Zoll-Drohung: "Es geht um mehr als Handel" Trumps neue Zölle würden die ohnehin angeschlagene deutsche Wirtschaft hart treffen. Doch aus Sicht des Hauptgeschäftsführer des Außenhandelsverbands BGA, Finkelnburg, ist Nachgeben im aktuellen Strei...

Like on Brexit, where German businesses supported the EU's stance to protect the single market (unlike the myth of the 'German carmakers'), again first German business voices are supporting a strong stance of the EU vis-a-vis Trump to protect the joint sovereignty:

And driven by threat and geopolitics (Jean Monnet said so himself about the USSR in 1950, before he pretended later in life that he hadn’t)

And inherently colonial extractive to preserve the political economy of European empires

Europe Pays Up for Ukraine The EU’s borrowing plan is a solid way forward. Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the other European leaders came through when it mattered.

In December, the EU came up with a substantial amount of aid for Ukraine, despite pushback from multiple member states, and with options for future talks. Friedrich Merz deserves a lot of credit for getting the deal over the line, @rebeccawire.bsky.social writes.

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.@gideonrachman is right. This would be the flex. Europe has cards to play. But will it choose to play them?

Pulla bread

Seven things to know about the EU’s €90bn loan to Ukraine – European Council on Foreign Relations Ukraine receives a vital lifeline, but it is not coming from immobilised Russian reserves.

What to make of the EU’s €90bn loan to Ukraine? @agathedemarais.bsky.social's 7-point analysis is the definitive assessment (point number 6 surely being the most transformative).

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One additional point on politics: Without the very strong push especially from Berlin for the use of the Russian assets, Orbán would most likely not have agreed to this lesser-evil solution from his (and Putin‘s) perspective. The threat was real, and he caved.

There’s gonna be a lot of hyperbolic talk about EU failing to meet the moment, yada, yada. But a 90 BILLION EU loan is a huge step for the EU and Ukraine! Europe just borrowed for war! EU crossed the joint borrowing rubicon. And they can still do the reparations loan in 2026.

I had open (physical) note exams with some similar outcomes, and I think they probably just put In different prompts on a different AI platform. your prompts accurately reflect the material, theirs prob have errors, and chat doesnt correct them. I would wager it’s AI generated shared notes.

Is probably a LLM and shared study notes, no?

Excellent. I use it to teach/comapratively normalize European Integration!

I really like teaching The Philadelphian System article by Dan Deudney. great first principle stuff on sovereignty and institutional design/state form www.jstor.org/stable/2706970

And this chart:

“The lesson is clear. Together, European financing and Ukrainian ingenuity can build an effective deterrent against external threats, even as the US pulls back.”

Macron warned US could ‘betray’ Ukraine in leaked leaders’ call, Spiegel reports According to a transcript obtained by the German outlet, Europe rallied around Volodymyr Zelenskyy and sharply criticized Washington.

“We cannot leave Ukraine and Volodymyr alone with these guys.” www.politico.eu/article/euro...

There’s a lot going on. Don’t miss or forget this. 👇