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Ralph Schoellhammer

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Hello! I am glad you found your way to my Muck Rack Profile.

Here you can find everything about my work as an assistant professor of International Relations at Webster Vienna Private University and my podcast, The 1020 (now also on YouTube).

My main field of research is political theory and international relations, with a particular emphasis on how culture, values, and ideologies influence state behaviour. I have written and published about the interplay of culture and identity and how it aff…

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How many bodies does the EU need?

How many bodies does the EU need?

In early October, the so-called "European Political Community" (EPC) had its first summit in Prague. 44 count…

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Will Europe's Right-wing populists disappoint again?

Will Europe's Right-wing populists disappoint again?

The recent news cycle has been dominated by the election successes of Right-wing parties in Europe, from the …

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The EU is a union in name only

The EU is a union in name only

The war in Ukraine has exposed the deep divisions between member states. The war in Ukraine was the first tru…

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European autonomy remains a distant dream

European autonomy remains a distant dream

There are growing rifts within the European Union, beginning with Franco-German disagreements about energy an…

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Russia Is Europe's Problem, Not America's. The U.S. Should Cut Europe Loose

Russia Is Europe's Problem, Not America's. The U.S. Should Cut Europe Loose

There is an uncomfortable truth that almost nobody in Washington wants to address and it's this: The biggest …

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Ceuta was declared over before anyone had counted

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By Ralph Schoellhammer
| Brussels Signal Verified
The events of July 30-31 in Ceuta, Spain were an absolute debacle for the legacy media. While it is an open secret that the majority of mainstream journalists would prefer the issue of mass migration not to be solved but to “just go away” and blame all those pesky right-wingers for their habit of continuing to report about it, over the course of a weekend the gaslighting (or attempt thereof) was remarkable.
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The elites cannot forgive the people for being right

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By Ralph Schoellhammer
| Brussels Signal Verified
On July 23 the editor-in-chief of The Economist published her interview with Elon Musk, recorded three days earlier at Tesla’s Texas plant, in which she told the world’s richest man that “some people do loathe you”. Zanny Minton Beddoes asked him whether what he was doing was “helpful for Western democracy”, although I suspect what she meant to say was Western democracy as she and the von der Leyens of the world interpret it.
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Is the death penalty coming back?

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By Ralph Schoellhammer
| Brussels Signal Verified
On June 30, 2026, French President Emmanuel Macron opened the ninth World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Paris with the observation that capital punishment “has never made a society safer because it does not deter”.
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