Associate professor, Roskilde University, political scientist, author, dad, political communication, organisation, leadership & public administrationhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3miecb37nfk22More geopolitical gasligthing from the master of disaster https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c8jke9v9xv9t31 Mar 2026 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3miecb37nfk22https://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3mhtpidvlhk2oDet blev “grumset”, som Niels Helveg ville ha’ sagt #dkpol https://www.dr.dk/tjenester/kimaira/article-by-path/nyheder/politik/folketingsvalg/live-danskerne-har-stemt-til-folketingsvalget?focusId=1139955724 Mar 2026 23:17 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhtpidvlhk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3mhqlxrlabc2aSå handlede det vist alligevel om “nogen” og ikke om “noget” #dkpol https://politiken.dk/danmark/politik/folketingsvalg/art10776887/Løkke-smider-bombe-i-valgkampens-slutspurt-Jeg-vil-være-kongelig-undersøger23 Mar 2026 17:37 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqlxrlabc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3mgzmuqni2k25Just as his ideas on democracy are more needed than ever https://bsky.app/profile/spiegel.de/post/3mgzlnzmr232q [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Mar 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgzmuqni2k25https://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3mgtvazwu422bWell, of course… autocrats work together https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/12/politics/trump-iran-war-russia-putin-analysis12 Mar 2026 07:36 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgtvazwu422bhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3mgrcyyhels27True autocrats do not go to war. They just use the military to kill people in other countries https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/10/how-the-us-israeli-war-in-iran-parallels-russia-invasion-of-ukraine11 Mar 2026 07:04 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgrcyyhels27https://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3mfrby63cgs2f‘Tax the rich’ Danish PM says before upcoming election. Time will tell, if it is more than just classic socialdemocratic strategy: campaign to the left, rule from the center. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/s-gaar-til-valg-paa-formueskat-de-rigeste26 Feb 2026 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfrby63cgs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3mesn26o7fk2iRubio’s message beneath the sweettalk - it’s still ‘our way or the highway’ https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/trump-administration-rubio-munich-02-14-2614 Feb 2026 08:46 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mesn26o7fk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3mcyunb5vks25📣New chapter out now, written with Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, on polycrisis, new beginnings and cosmopolitanism (think we need a little bit of that these days) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-04917-9_122 Jan 2026 09:27 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcyunb5vks25https://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3mcyrh3b2ns26This sounds very much like what the 🇺🇸-🇪🇺 relations have experienced the last couple of days. Forget 4d chess of ‘a very stable genius,’. When will the Maga-bubble burst and genuin talk of 25th amendment start? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lifetime-connections/202404/what-does-research-say-about-older-adult-narcissists/amp22 Jan 2026 08:30 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcyrh3b2ns26https://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3mcos5vbjis24Will Greenland be Trump’s Waterloo? Making it a clear EU/ transatlantic issue he might have overplayed his hand https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gjdx241wo18 Jan 2026 09:16 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcos5vbjis24https://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3mbqjyilvsk2mWill Greenland be Trump’s price for security guarantees in Ukraine? Maybe highly speculative, but nothing is too outrageous for the current president. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/05/world/analysis-trump-venezuela-greenland-nato-intl-latam06 Jan 2026 08:30 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbqjyilvsk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3mbjec7t7lc2nMaduro is a criminal, but indirectly this is also bad news for Taiwan https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/03/world/video/mary-mena-caracas-venezuela-digvid03 Jan 2026 11:59 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbjec7t7lc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3masjo4szmc23Jeg har begået denne ‘jule’-kronik i Politiken. Nok mere et resultat af forfatterens hånd end forskerens😉 Glædelig jul til alle 🎄🎅🏻 https://politiken.dk/debat/kroniken/art10636353/I-1893-blev-der-begået-et-hemmeligt-folkemord-...-på-de-danske-nisser#:~:text=I%201893%20blev%20der%20begået%20et%20hemmeligt%20folkemord&text=på%20de%20danske%20nisser25 Dec 2025 10:04 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3masjo4szmc23https://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3malqfnihms2r🇺🇸 is now doing ‘geopolitical gasligthing’. Case number 1: the national security strategy https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf#page2922 Dec 2025 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3malqfnihms2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3m7ozajld5k2iTrump wants to export the MAGA revolution to Europe. This is NOT in the interest of Europe or of the Europeans Trump claims he wants to help. See new videopost from @anderspucknielsen.dk youtu.be/YAh-xEteBz4 https://youtu.be/YAh-xEteBz411 Dec 2025 07:07 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7ozajld5k2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3m7ksppy2oc2yPutins talking points copy-pasted. Trump is still shaping an excuse to abandon 🇺🇦, framing 🇪🇺 as a foe and 🇷🇺 as a friend. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/09/trump-dasha-burns-interview-europe-immigration-ukraine-0068201609 Dec 2025 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7ksppy2oc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3m2j6vm7ghc2jBedre sent end aldrig, …men stadig FOR sent af @dkuni.bsky.social https://politiken.dk/del/_LkTZ7AFAxLg06 Oct 2025 08:27 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2j6vm7ghc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3lyu6vfa2j22eHappy and honoured to see that our special issue article on crisis and expertise is among the top ten cited in Policy & Politics, this year🙂 Free access to the article this month! [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Sep 2025 06:35 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyu6vfa2j22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3lypneuxgqc2pEnten misinformerer statsministeren eller også har hun ikke styr på regeringens egen universitetspolitik #dkpol https://politiken.dk/del/fY1b78AE5GrA13 Sep 2025 11:11 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lypneuxgqc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3lxly2akes22s 🇺🇸 hybrid warfare in Greenland. Some in the 🇩🇰 political establishment even speculate that decline of 🇩🇰 brands like Ørsted and Novo Nordisk in US markets is linked to the 🇺🇸strategy. Maybe too speculative, but worth following in the comming weeks https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar4837d97330 Aug 2025 06:46 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxly2akes22shttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3lwqajdxuwc2eYou cannot gain credit for making ‘negotiations’ a political reality show, while people are dying in 🇺🇦 It is just cynical and sheer hypocrisy https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/trump-zelensky-meeting-oval-office-putin-war-analysis19 Aug 2025 06:03 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwqajdxuwc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3lwirch7n7222‘Art of the f*ck-up’… historic humiliation for a US president. But yes, it could had gone a lot worse for 🇺🇦 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gj9er0x0zo16 Aug 2025 06:42 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwirch7n7222https://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3lvzudwslmk27For a brief moment (since the NATO summit) some liberals dreamed that some of ‘the old ways’ was still working. Trump even sounded like a critic of Putin. But it was just sound, just an illusion… https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/09/europe/trump-putin-summit-analysis-2-intl10 Aug 2025 08:27 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvzudwslmk27https://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3ltt6ccmm2k2fWhen you have been feeding the animal for many years, you cannot suddenly ask it to die https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250712-trump-calls-for-maga-base-to-end-epstein-files-obsession13 Jul 2025 05:46 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltt6ccmm2k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3ltbri2j2r22lEugenics is back, in a privatized Big tech-supported version https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EjBgNqc4j3M06 Jul 2025 07:41 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltbri2j2r22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3lsyd2p5kfk2fA proper authoritarian regime must of course have their own Gulag https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/01/us/what-is-alligator-alcatraz-florida02 Jul 2025 13:29 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsyd2p5kfk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3lrufl5wkss2hGodt at se at @magtudredningen2.bsky.social sætter mere fokus på policyprofessionelle. Her er et link til dengang begrebet blev introduceret på dansk i et temanummer i Politica i 2020 https://politica.dk/fileadmin/politica/Dokumenter/politica_52_1/2020_1.pdf18 Jun 2025 06:38 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrufl5wkss2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3lo3z5np5fc2m📣New article: justification of digital transformation. Plz share https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3724401 @jobernha.bsky.social @sgenner.bskye.social @hannahruschemeier.bsky.social @jeah.bsky.social @moltke.bsky.social @moltke.bsky.social @slosarski.bsky.social @slosarski.bsky.social @heidimaurer.bsky.social01 May 2025 09:37 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo3z5np5fc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/peteraagaard.bsky.social/post/3lnia7mi53c26📣 New article out now on justification of public digitalization, the Danish experiences #digitalization #DigitalTransformation #DigitalCitizenship #DigitalInclusion link.growkudos.com/1f7rupreku8 https://link.growkudos.com/1f7rupreku823 Apr 2025 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:sqd3z6t3yu4nf3x2u2jfl2hd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnia7mi53c26