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Category Archives: Max Hänska
Jun 6 2018
The Counterfactual Imagination of Populist Euroscepticism
3 CommentsBy Max Hänska and Vassilios Paipais Euroscepticism is on the rise across Europe, as populists from both the left and right hold up their retrograde visions of gloriously assertive and blissfully self-reliant nation states. The installation of a populist and eurosceptic government in … Continue reading
Posted by: June 6, 2018
Tagged with: Euroscepticism, imagined future, International relations, populism
Nov 28 2017
Germany’s (lack of) self-understanding
Comments Off on Germany’s (lack of) self-understandingBy Maria Brock & Max Hänska One of the most remarkable feats of German post-war history is the way it has made continual efforts to work through its past. Monuments commemorating those killed by the Nazis can be found in … Continue reading
Posted by: November 28, 2017
Tagged with: AFD, Erinnerungskultur, European identity, German Elections 2017, populism
Jun 5 2017
How the General Election 2017 Campaign is Shaping Up on Twitter
Comments Off on How the General Election 2017 Campaign is Shaping Up on TwitterBy Stefan Bauchowitz and Max Hänska If we are to believe the pundits, social media has played an outsized role in recent political events, and so it is not surprising that its role in the upcoming General Election has been … Continue reading
Posted by: June 5, 2017
Tagged with: 2017 elections, general election, hastags, Labour, Social Media, twitter, UK elections
Mar 3 2017
The Economics of Brexit Needn’t Be Quixotic: Towards a Green Industrial Strategy for Britain
Comments Off on The Economics of Brexit Needn’t Be Quixotic: Towards a Green Industrial Strategy for BritainBy Afzal S. Siddiqui and Max Hänska “Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. … Continue reading
Posted by: March 3, 2017
Tagged with: Afzal Siddiqui, austerity, Brexit, Green Energy, Industrial Strategy, renewable energy
Feb 7 2017
Against Anti-Pluralism
Comments Off on Against Anti-PluralismBy Max Hänska Citizens are voting for candidates hitherto considered unlikely; the future of the EU, and indeed the post-war international order is in question. It is unsurprising that the current fin de siècle atmosphere, and many citizens’ sense of … Continue reading
Posted by: February 7, 2017
Tagged with: Blame, Democracy, European identity, Euroscepticism, immigration, Inequality, Nationalism, populism, Trump
Aug 23 2016
What 7.5m tweets taught us about the Brexit campaign
Comments Off on What 7.5m tweets taught us about the Brexit campaignBy Stefan Bauchowitz and Max Hänska How did Eurosceptic (leave) and pro-European (remain) activity compare on social media in the run-up to the EU referendum, and was there a relationship between social media users and votes? To find out how … Continue reading
Posted by: August 23, 2016
Tagged with: Brexit, Social Media, twitter
Jul 12 2016
The battle lines have been etched
Comments Off on The battle lines have been etchedBy Max Hänska Latent tensions became manifest with the result of the Brexit referendum, etching the battle line that will define the struggles ahead. Those who have embraced and built their lives around our liberal-cosmopolitan global order, and found opportunity … Continue reading
Posted by: July 12, 2016
Tagged with: Brexit, international order, post truth politics
Apr 5 2016
The EU, a Fair-Weather Ship Between Scylla and Charybdis
Comments Off on The EU, a Fair-Weather Ship Between Scylla and CharybdisBy Max Hänska The EU faces debilitation by multiple crises: economic malaise and high unemployment, an influx of refugee and mounting security concerns. They all lay bare that resilience was not build into the EU’s architecture, it lacks the institutional … Continue reading
Posted by: April 5, 2016
Tagged with: Crisis, EU, European geopolitics, Security, Socio-economic security
Nov 8 2015
How visible are Britain’s EU renegotiation demands across Europe’s twitterspheres?
Comments Off on How visible are Britain’s EU renegotiation demands across Europe’s twitterspheres?By Max Hänska and Stefan Bauchowitz David Cameron warned EU leaders to meet Britain’s demands, as he faced mounting pressure to outline his terms for keeping the UK in the EU. He is expected to set out these demands in greater … Continue reading
Posted by: November 8, 2015
Tagged with: Brexit, European Public Sphere, Europeanization, twittersphere, UK
Oct 6 2015
#aGreekment in the Twittersphere
4 CommentsBy Max Hänska and Stefan Bauchowitz To what extent does twitter provide a platform for the emergence of a European public sphere? Around 47% of Europeans use social media at least once a week, making it a potentially important source of … Continue reading
Posted by: October 6, 2015
Tagged with: Bailout, Euro crisis, European Public Sphere, Europeanization, media, Socialmedia, twitter, twittersphere