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The 2026 edition of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference took place at Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland), 8-11 September. Over four conference days more than 2000 participants presented in over 500 panels discussing some of the most important topics of our times including democratic backsliding and resilience, radicalisation, climate change, and […]

Held as part of the 2026 UACES Doctoral Training Academy, the Small-Group Networking Session provided PhD students and Early Career Researchers with an opportunity to engage directly with experienced researchers and professionals working across different areas of academic and professional life. The session was designed to complement the broader professional development programme by creating a […]

A short post this week, partly because I’ve got other things on, more because my cunning plan to summarise where parties are on ‘Europe’ came a bit unstuck. Either they’ve kept quiet on the matter or they’ve offered much talk. Probably only the LibDems of the national parties have both adopted a new policy objective […]

Well, it feels like I picked a good time to start trying to blog more. Andy Burnham’s speech to the Labour party conference has fired the gun on something that felt pretty unlikely just a few weeks ago: a debate about the UK’s relationship with the EU. Given that one month ago I myself was […]

Three Vietnamese policy documents, issued between 2019 and 2024, changed how I understood the new EU-Vietnam partnership. Resolution 52-NQ/TW, issued by the Politburo in 2019, set a target for the digital economy to reach approximately 30 percent of GDP by 2030. In 2021, the National Green Growth Strategy, approved by Prime Ministerial Decision 1658/QĐ-TTg, set […]