My @mitpress “Citizenship” 📕 is subject of an erudite review in @nybooks, @atossaaraxia taking #statelessness as a starting point BUT: #Citizenship, NOT statelessness is the problem! @eksmo_live @edizionimulino @univgroningen mitpress.mit.edu/books/citiz…

On the Dark Continent (Inter-war Europe), I remember a well-known professor writing on a transition country (the topic was very popular then and many people who knew nothing about Eastern Europe ventured on it) and in the intro paragraph he wrote something like "X was before the war a part of European democratic mainstream". Democratic mainstream? I was in disbelief: Nazi Germany & Fascist Austria, Fascist Italy, Fascist Hungary, Fascist Spain, semi-Fascist Portugal, all East European royal autocracies, military dictatorship in Poland...Wasn't the real European mainstream "fascism"?

🚩 "Citizenship as Aristocratic Justice" is out. bjwa.brown.edu/32-2/citizens… @CEUDemInst

Although still in "early view", this contribution remains a vitally important analysis, drawing on the critical work of Petra Bárd, Laurent Pech, Omer Shatz, Sarah Ganty and other wonderful collaborators: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Prof Roy and I push back against widespread misreading of Arendt's "Right to have rights", showcasing quite a different meaning of the concept in her work and in real life: Citizenship is a powerful anti-rights instrument papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

Nobody can take seriously European complaints about China. China is now building things better and more cheaply than Germany or France. When France and Germany built things better and more cheaply than others, they ridiculed such complaints. Now they are losing and not liking it. Moreover, Europe came to that position by exploiting the rest of the world. China did not.

Gareth Davies (VU Amsterdam) argues that because the Court of Justice reads the scope of EU law so broadly and leaves no room for value diversity within it, it is legally no longer possible to be a conservative state in the EU. Recommended. legaltheoryblog.com/?p=11231…

Death of🇪🇺EU as cutting edge knowledge production site. There are more top Universities from essentially provincial city of Hong Kong in top 20 (2, total for 🇨🇳China - 4) than the EU(0). This is what the lack of leadership and overall intellectual and economic decline look like.

Future generations of Russians will look at statues of Navalny, walk through squares and streets named after him, and curse the corrupt and mediocre autocrat who murdered him and devastated a generation of Russians and Ukrainians.

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Perhaps that AI will bring us back to the medieval conception of production & dissemination of knowledge: monks who copied what was already written & known. Those with the best calligraphy were held in highest esteem. New researchers will have AI write their papers & the best researcher will be the one who selected the coolest AI stuff. A topic for Borges. Knowledge will be a fixed sum of things and the best bricolage of what is known (by all) would be called science.

"Let him go!" a child screams as a crowd band together to rescue a man from forced conscription in Lviv.

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People in Odessa blockade a press gang vehicle and clash with the police. Resistance to mobilisation, including violent, is visibly growing.

The motto of Soviet journalism was “turning your pen into a bayonet”, but Julian Röpcke goes even further by leaving the Bild and joining a drone company he won’t name because it’s too secret. A more honest way of war profiteering than previously, hence laudable.

We have been advocating for a better use of Article 2 TEU all along and yesterday's Commission v. Hungary is most welcome. "EU values ARE law, after all"!! Orbán's regime helped move EU law in the right direction. academic.oup.com/yel/article… @CEUDemInst @BGrabowskaMoroz

Good if Ukrainians have somewhere safe to run away to given deportations threats in the US and EU countries leaning towards rejecting asylum for draft-age men.

So it begins: Italy is now rationing jet fuel at four major airports Bologna, Milan Linate, Venice, Treviso through April 9. Priority goes to medical flights, state aircraft, and routes over 3 hours. Everyone else: good luck. This is what European energy dependency looks like in practice. Actual planes, soon grounded or rerouted, because Europe dismantled its energy strategy piece by piece — first the Green Deal rollback, then the LNG pivot, now a supply crunch that hits civilians at the gate. The irony? The Commission is currently selling energy independence as its new banner.

The ethnocidal framing here is to make one feel there is no alternative to forever war, but what’s destroying Ukrainian identity and possibly statehood is the war itself, the longer it goes. Seven million people fled Ukraine already, most of them for good. More will leave when men are allowed to cross the border. The work of many generations - giant industrial hubs, dams, power stations - has been destroyed, real Ukrainian identity is being replaced with an obscurantist far right cargo cult. What will be left of Ukraine when warmongering pundits finally lose their argument?

Welcome a new paper to appear in 🇺🇸💥Brown Journal of World Affiars💥🇺🇸 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… Aristocratic justice is no justice at all!