Tobias Schmidtke

🚨🚨 job alert time 🚨🚨 @unibremen.bsky.social

3 PhD positions within the 3rd phase of the @sfb1342.bsky.social, with a focus on computational methods and/or on protest mobilization, specifically with a focus on Africa.

Starting time: early 2026, deadline: 14th of January.

more info below:

Under what conditions do IOs create resilient policy norms?

In their article, Antje Vetterlein & @tschmidtke.bsky.social approach IOs as social sites where international norms are transformed into ‘policy norms’ and distinguish four degrees of resilience.

📄 👉 rdcu.be/eSvM9

Contextualizing norms: international organizations and the creation of resilient policy norms - Journal of International Relations and Development Understanding the role of international norms has been a prominent theme in International Relations, alongside studying International Organizations (IOs) as norm diffusers. Combining both literatures,...

🌍 NEW PUBLICATION 📖

Excited to share that Antje Vetterlein and I have published a new article in @jird-jour.bsky.social (Open Access): 'Contextualizing Norms: International Organizations and the Creation of Resilient Policy Norms'

Full article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Call for papers! @danielleresnick.bsky.social , @philbakernz.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue in the journal Food Policy on "Rebuilding Global Food Governance amidst a Crisis of Multilateralism" - Papers due Feb.1, 2026. For more info, see link!

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

We illustrate these empirically by comparing four policy cases from the IMF (capital account liberalization and poverty reduction) and the World Bank (anti-corruption and sustainable agriculture).

We introduce four degrees of resilience: endurance, elasticity, flexibility, and fragility.

This is due to a better knowledge of the organizational culture and greater norm ownership among IO staff.

Drawing on informal governance, localization, and translation approaches in IO and norms research, we contend that norms that emerge internally through bottom-up processes within IOs become more resilient.

We define resilience as the ability of a norm to retain its essential elements while being enacted over time.

We argue that how a norm enters an IO, whether from outside or inside, top-down or bottom-up, shapes the resilience of the emerging policy norm.

Beyond viewing international organizations (IOs) as diffusers of norms, we study them as social sites where international norms are transformed into ‘policy norms’.

Contextualizing norms: international organizations and the creation of resilient policy norms - Journal of International Relations and Development Understanding the role of international norms has been a prominent theme in International Relations, alongside studying International Organizations (IOs) as norm diffusers. Combining both literatures,...

🌍 NEW PUBLICATION 📖

Excited to share that Antje Vetterlein and I have published a new article in @jird-jour.bsky.social (Open Access): 'Contextualizing Norms: International Organizations and the Creation of Resilient Policy Norms'

Full article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Monkeys falling from trees and baking barnacles: how heat is driving animals to extinction With the number of very hot days rising as well as average temperatures, more and more animals are vulnerable. But while some species can adapt, others are seeing huge population declines

#Kollaps für Alle - natürlich auch für Tiere:

"With the number of very hot days rising as well as average temperatures, more and more animals are vulnerable. Some species can adapt. Others are seeing huge population declines..."

🌱 After 8 years of volunteer work, we need your help to keep Agroecology Map alive! 💚 Support our open-source platform with a small donation via Ko-Fi ☕ and get listed on our friends page! 🙌 Thank you for growing agroecology with us! 🌍

☕ ko-fi.com/agroecologymap

#agroecology

📣 #CfP The 18th Early Career Conference on International Relations (25–27 Feb 2026) once again invites PhD candidates & postdocs to present and discuss their research in beautiful Tutzing! Abstracts can be submitted until 30 Sept 2025. Further details can be found in the attached call.

W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" - Universität Münster Universität Münster bietet Stelle als W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" in Münster - jetzt bewerben!

🎓📢 We’re hiring!

Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability)

💼 Permanent position
📍 Münster, Germany
🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025

jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

Die Rechtstreiber der CDU Einige Wirtschaftslobbyisten und Denkfabriken untergraben aktiv die Brandmauer. Der nächste mögliche Tabubruch: eine Minderheitsregierung

Wichtige, unbedingt lesenswerte Recherche von @annikajoeres.bsky.social, Gabriela Keller und Stella Hesch auf @correctiv.org: zum #Rechtsruck innerhalb der #CDU unter #Merz. Erinnert erschreckend an die #ÖVP und die #Republikaner.
correctiv.org/aktuelles/pa...

Only political will can end world hunger: Food isn’t scarce, but many people can’t access it Massive political efforts are needed to tackle the root causes of hunger – conflict, poverty, inequality. Technology alone is not sufficient.

Great piece by @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social & @ipes-food.org: Only political will can end world hunger: Food isn’t scarce, but many people can’t access it theconversation.com/only-politic...

Hallo Bluesky!

Das Institut für Politikwissenschaft @uni-muenster.de wird ab heute (nur) über diesen Kanal aktuelle News zu Studium, Lehre und Forschung posten. Weitere und detaillierte Informationen über unser Institut finden sich auch immer hier: www.uni-muenster.de/IfPol/

Another look at the "law of dispersion": In the German city of Bremen, the turnout rates of different neighbourhoods in Bundestag elections have diverged quite dramatically over the past four decades.

I've put together a starter pack of PhD students working in sustainable food systems, food justice, and environmental sciences, for anyone that would like to connect with fellow PhD students.

Let me know if you would like to be added!

#academicsky #foodstudies
go.bsky.app/Rh1AvK5

Curious about why some EU climate policies stand out as more innovative? 🌍 Dr. Laurie Durel (@unibern.bsky.social) and I have created a video that breaks down our research on #climate policies in the #EU! 🎥📚 Watch now and explore the key insights in a few minutes: ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LkT...

The World Bank at 80: Navigating Change and Continuity in a Shifting Development Landscape - ElgarBlog Eighty years after the World Bank was founded at the Bretton Woods Conference on July 7, 1944, both the organization and the world around it look very different today. Originally mandated to oversee t...

✍️ New blog post written by @tschmidtke.bsky.social & Antje Vetterlein

🏦 The World Bank at 80: Navigating Change and Continuity in a Shifting Development Landscape: elgar.blog/2024/11/05/t...

#Economics #WorldBank #InternationalOrganizationStudies

Attending #EISAPEC2024 in beautiful Lille? Come join
@lauregosselin.bsky.social and my panel on norm contestations, discursive shifts, and and epistemic struggles in the global governance of sustainable food systems! We still have room for one more paper!
@europeanisa.bsky.social

Geheimplan gegen Deutschland Hochrangige AfD-Politiker, Neonazis und finanzstarke Unternehmer planten die Vertreibung von Millionen von Menschen aus Deutschland.

Angriff gegen die Verfassung der Bundesrepublik: Bei einem geheimen Treffen haben einflussreiche AfD-Politiker mit bekannten Rechtsextremisten und Unternehmern einen Plan. Sie wollen Millionen von Menschen aus Deutschland vertreiben. Was die Anwesenden nicht wussten: CORRECTIV war vor Ort...

Warum die Bauernschaft wütend ist Ausgabe 19 - Was Sie wissen müssen, um die Proteste der Landwirtschaft zu verstehen

Das ist wahrscheinlich die informierteste und für agrarpolitische Neulinge sehr gut fassliche Darstellung der Konfliktlinien & des strukturellen Drucks in der Landwirtschaft, sehr fair gegenüber den Landwirt*innen. Und das alles ohne Paywall

open.substack.com/pub/uedio/p/...

Diese Woche ist in der Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen das Forum zur (neuen) Relevanz von Normdynamiken in den IB erschienen, das ich gemeinsam mit Antonia Graf, Bastian Loges und @holgerniemann.bsky.social herausgeben durfte! www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0946... 1/n

NewsFromDubai #2 The dramaturgical arch of a COP

The first week of #COP28 is over. Last night, first week negotiations on various topics have come to a provisional close. This brings me to a topic that is important but often not well understood: temporality, rhythm & dramaturgy.

Durch Wegfallen von Twitter ändert sich viel für Aktivismus im Digitalen: Diverse Plattformen statt 1. Wenn Ihr Anliegen unterstützen wollt, teilt sie auf ALLEN Plattformen wo Ihr seid, interagiert (Drüko, Druko), schreibt selber Content zu Hashtags. So tragt Ihr bei, dass Anliegen im Fokus bleiben!

Warum die Machtübernahme durch die AfD schon früher beginnen könnte, als viele glauben Erst der Wahlsieg, dann der Griff nach dem höchsten Amt im Parlament: Die AfD könnte die Demokratie in Thüringen im kommenden Jahr auf eine sehr ernste Probe stellen. Aber das Schlimmste ließe si...

Was passiert, wenn die AfD 2024 stärkste Kraft in Thüringen wird? Jelena von Achenbach und Maximilian Steinbeis spielen beim
@verfassungsblog.de durch, was ein:e AfD-Landtagspräsident:in bedeuten würde und wie dies verhindert werden könnte. Must read. ⬇️

verfassungsblog.de/warum-die-ma...