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Contested multilateralism as credible signaling: how strategic inconsistency can induce cooperation among states
This paper analyzes how patterns of international cooperation are affected if a group of states, led by a major power, pursues a strategy of...
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Reconfiguring Food Systems Governance: The UNFSS and the Battle Over Authority and Legitimacy
The UN Food Systems Summit was an ambitious and hotly contested event that brought competing approaches to global food governance into relief. In...
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“Contingent power extension” and regional (dis)integration: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its consequences for the EU
In this article, we explore the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a case of “Contingent Power Extension” (CPE) towards the European Union (EU),...
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At what cost? Power, payments, and public support of international organizations
The drivers of public support for international organizations (IOs) are multifaceted and contested. Focusing on the US, we argue that citizens weigh...
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Preserving the Epistemic Authority of Science in World Politics
Governments rely extensively on expertise, and arguably many of the major accomplishments over the last 50 years reflect the ideas and involvement of...
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Negotiating Boundaries of Power in the Global Governance for Care
The centrality of building care economies as a necessary step towards gender justice requires a reassessment of global economic governance and...
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Building bridges or digging the trench? International organizations, social media, and polarized fragmentation
Communication departments of international organizations (IOs) are important intermediaries of global governance who increasingly use social media to...
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The promise and perils of theorizing international regime complexity in an evolving world
As the world becomes more complicated, so too does global governance. The political consequences of the rising density of institutions, policies,...
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The EU, Korea, and conflict transformation through regional integration
The post-World War II experience of conflict and regional cooperation in (Western) Europe and East Asia has been very different. Despite their...
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Asian futures: the case of Sinofuturism
Science fiction has often been thought of as a Western genre, and in many ways that is (still) the case. This article suggests though that with new...
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Globalizing Global Governance: Peripheral Thoughts from Latin America
The underpinnings of global governance since the end of the Second World War have been imbued with the Western norms of order. Today, the...
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Migration governance through trade agreements: insights from the MITA dataset
States struggle to establish multilateral cooperation on migration – yet they include more and more migration provisions in preferential trade...
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Propagation: The Aarhus Convention’s International Context
This chapter explores the international conditions that enabled the Aarhus Convention’s emergence at the end of the twentieth century. It firstly...
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To reform or to replace? Succession as a mechanism of institutional change in intergovernmental organisations
Given high costs of negotiating formal international institutions, states are widely expected to adapt, reform, and repurpose existing institutions...
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‘Incantatory’ Governance: Global Climate Politics’ Performative Turn and its Wider Significance for Global Politics
The 2015 Paris agreement represents a deep-rooted change in global climate governance. While existing scholarly assessments highlight central...
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Going Beyond the “Normative vs. Social” Standard: A Preliminary Framework for Evaluating the Legitimacy of International Institutions
International institutions are facing a new paradox: there is an urgent need for them, but they are increasingly being resisted, and one of the main...
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The Breathing Catastrophe: COVID-19 and Global Health Governance
In the second year of the pandemic, the malaise of global health governance has come to the fore at the intersection of the trajectories of global...
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The Climate Finance Conundrum
International climate finance is key to managing overall climate risk with many develo** countries’ climate plans and actions are conditional on...
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Re-contracting intergovernmental organizations: Membership change and the creation of linked intergovernmental organizations
How do intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) evolve? Cooperation through IGOs is difficult to maintain, as membership dynamics change dramatically...