Gerald J. Beyer

NATO Expansion after 1989: An Argument from the Catholic Social Tradition - Gerald J. Beyer, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Ukraine wraps up the Olympics with 12 medals, including three golds, securing a spot in the top 25 overall. This wartime Olympics will definitely go down in history. Thank you, champions! 🇺🇦👊🏻

Why America's Workers Should Rejoice about Harris's Pick of Tim Walz as VP -- from his enacting 12 weeks' paid family & medical leave in Minnesota to enacting innovative protections for Amazon workers to expanding collective bargaining rights for teachers slate.com/news-and-polit…

Governor Walz isn’t only an ally to labor – he’s our union brother with a deep commitment to a pro-worker agenda. Labor stands united behind the Harris–Walz ticket and ready to help lead the effort to defeat Trump, Vance and their Project 2025 agenda. aflcio.org/press/releases…

Last year, I wrote a big story about how Minnesota's pro-worker Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota's Democratic legislature enacted arguably the most pro-worker package of legislation that any American state had enacted in decades. theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j…

Of those now being vetted as potential VPs for @KamalaHarris, Minnesota's @GovTimWalz has the best record of enacting a progressive vision advancing the common good. See details in this study I completed with two colleagues in Jan 2024. georgetown.app.box.com/s/kxsmj8lkmpri… @bcgproject

Nearly 70% of US faculty members hold contingent (nontenured/non-TT) appointments compared to about 47% in 1987. This trend is not sustainable if #academicfreedom is to survive in our society. insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…

This isn't our first Olympics, but it's very special. We're losing loved ones, our cities are being destroyed, and our homes are occupied. But we’re not backing down or stopping because we have the will to win. Support us, support Ukraine at the Olympics 2024. 📹: Suspilne

The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games is taking place right now. Beautiful and successful. Only one thing is missing: the 487 Ukrainian athletes who were tortured, raped, and murdered, during the russian invasion war. I want to honor their sacrifices today and pay my respects. #StopTheWar #Ukraine #WeAreAllUkrainians #FreeUkraine #Olympics #Paris #Paris2024 #OpeningCeremony

Thanks for this @HarvieTimothy

Twin horrors: 1) Russia bombing a major children's hospital as part of its daily terror and murder campaign against Ukraine. 2) The free world having the power to stop it and refusing to.

Today's missile attack at a children's hospital in Kyiv pretty much sums things up on all that verbal diarrhea around "negotiations," "peace missions," and Putin's "peace proposals." This was one of the most barbaric and demonstratively deliberate gestures of Russia's war on Ukraine. Russia & Vladimir Putin are not interested in any "peace," "the end of the conflict," or a "compromise." They are interested in Ukraine's unconditional surrender enforced via unlimited civilian terror. They are unable to defeat Ukraine on battlefields (provided that the West stays with Ukraine and keeps sending defense aid, which is very likely); they will seek to escalate their missile attacks from trying to strip Ukraine of electricity and heating to deliberate mass killings of civilians. I am afraid that in the coming months we'll be seeing even more deliberate terror attacks like one from today. Hospitals, shopping malls, large residential buildings, you name it. I'll be more than happy to end up being wrong with this one. I don't know what else needs to be a FINAL WAKE UP CALL to the Western decision-makers still having hope of going the easiest way with what Russia is doing. No, there won't be a moment when Putin says that he's OK with your "territorial compromises on Ukraine" as a result of which he leaves Ukraine alone forever (and you can forget about this annoying headache and continue business as usual). No, you can be vowing before Putin never to accept Ukraine as a NATO member on a daily basis live on TV, but this will not stop him - because it's just about nothing but keeping Ukraine vulnerable and defenseless to a Russian invasion and occupation. No, Putin is not to be reasoned with or traded with because he is not the one looking for peace. He gladly uses your chronic lack of leadership, procrastination, fears, over-compromise, and reluctance to assume responsibilities and make necessary historic decisions.

With the NATO summit beginning tomorrow, this might be of interest: NATO Expansion after 1989: An Argument from the Catholic Social Tradition - Gerald J. Beyer, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Insightful article by the brilliant Polish scholar Pawel Rojek link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I am also grateful for a @clasvillanova faculty development grant that helped defray the cost of open access

My article "NATO Expansion after 1989: An Argument from the Catholic Social Tradition" is now open access (no paywall). I am grateful for funding from Villanova University's Falvey Memorial Library Scholarship Open Access Reserve (SOAR) Fund. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

All Americans should want to stop this, regardless of party affiliation slate.com/news-and-polit…

Anyone who thinks Ukraine can negotiate a just peace with Russia needs to hear this

"My friend, a writer, texted last night from his trench to say a gentle goodbye. His unit is expecting an attack anytime, but they do not have the heavy artillery they need to repel the assault." read @avalaina, on why Ukrainians keep fighting iwpr.net/global-voices/…

Min. Sikorski excoriates US pols for enabling more Russian war crimes.

Extraordinary presentations today from our Rwandan speakers about peacebuilding efforts since the genocide. It is not too late to register for tomorrow's sessions on peacebuilding in Bosnian and the role of international law, treating war crimes in Ukraine.www1.villanova.edu/university/lib…