Štefan Auer
@stefanauer_hku
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Professor of European Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures @HKuniversity, occasional bylines in @FT @Politico @prospect_uk @unherd Proud father of 4
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Joined February 2014
‘Auer’s study of ‘European disunion’ represents one of the most thorough & interesting revisionist critiques of the European project & its concomitant academic discipline,European Studies.’ Very thankful to Hanns W. Maull for an amazing review in Survival
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Turkey Under Erdoğan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the WestDimitar Bechev. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. £20.00/$28.00. 263 pp.Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Mid...
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Everybody’s posturing except Trump.
[Q]:.This past weekend, Sergei Lavrov was saying that Putin will not sign a peace deal with Zelensky because Russia views him as illegitimate. I'm just wondering if the Russians had been relaying this to your team, if they view Zelensky, you know, as a leader worth signing a
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My hunch is that western intellectuals knew more about many things in the 1820s than they do now :).
It’s bizarre, but I think true, that western intellectuals knew more about Chinese history, philosophy, & culture in the 1820s than they do in the 2020s.
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RT @stefanauer_hku: Strange to think of Poland’s absence as advantageous, but we are living in strange times 🤷♂️ Trump saying that Europea….
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RT @BrigidLaffan: There is something deeply wrong when a former Irish MEP seeks to blacken Finland’s resistance to Soviets & now after Puti….
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Worth asking whether it could have been otherwise 👇.
Some incredible papers were declassified on Friday: minutes of meetings between President Clinton and President Putin from June 2000. 1/4.
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RT @stefanauer_hku: ‘A later-learned language “has a different sort of impact on you”, says Sally Cook… “You do become like an anthropologi….
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“Über europäische Souveränität oder ein Europa als selbstbewusster Machtblock in einer multipolaren Welt braucht auf absehbare Zeit niemand reden, der sich nicht lächerlich machen will.”
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Wirtschaftliche Kraft ist in einer Welt rivalisierender Mächte unzureichend. Es braucht auch militärische Macht. Für seine Defizite zahlt Europa jetzt einen hohen Preis.
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That still doesn’t justify Biden’s failings though, does it?.
Ever since the spring, Hegseth and Colby banned Ukraine from striking back at Russia with long-range missiles. Not just US-made ATACMS but also UK/French Storm Shadows because they use US targeting data. Talk about fighting a war with your hands tied.
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RT @stefanauer_hku: ‘speaking a foreign language tells your interlocutor that you are humble and committed enough to come into their world.….
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‘speaking a foreign language tells your interlocutor that you are humble and committed enough to come into their world.’ @henrymance.
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‘A later-learned language “has a different sort of impact on you”, says Sally Cook… “You do become like an anthropologist, you see yourself from a certain distance.” Spot on. An excellent article by @henrymance in FT 👇
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