Archive
2020
Transnational public-private governance initiatives in world politics: Introducing a new dataset
This article introduces a new dataset on transnational public-private governance initiatives (TGIs) in world politics. TGIs are institutions in which states ...
From meditation to action – towards a research agenda for the study of informal global rule-making: remarks on Cosmopolitanism, publicity, and the emergence of a global administrative law
Friedrich Kratochwil engages critically with the emergence of a global administrative law and its consequences for the democratic legitimacy of global govern...
Informal governance in world politics
In collaboration with: Kenneth W. Abbott and Thomas Biersteker
The global governance of international development: Documenting the rise of multi-stakeholder partnerships and identifying underlying theoretical explanations
In collaboration with: Bernhard Reinsberg
Navigating Institutional Complexity: Actors and Strategies in Densely Populated Global Governance Spaces
Funded by Swiss Network for International Studies
2019
Not All Complexes Are Equal: Variation in Institutional Complexity and Policy Conflict
Research on regime complexes tends to treat all complexes as equal. In this paper, I argue that institutional complexes constituted by multiple intergovernme...
Gauging Global Governance: The Effectiveness of Transnational Public-Private Governance Initiatives and Intergovernmental Organizations
Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation and the University of St. Gallen
Revisiting the Correlates of War Project’s Intergovernmental Organizations Data
In collaboration with: Stefano Jud
Institutional Complexity in Global Governance
In collaboration with: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni
Diplomatic Signaling: How Change in the Network of Diplomatic Relations Affects the Onset of International Conflict
Bargaining theories of war emphasize private information as a cause of conflict. Leaders are uncertain about one another’s military strength, preferences, an...
Contextual Design: Existing Intergovernmental Organizations and New Transnational Governance”
I offer a systematic account of the creation and design of transnational public-private governance initiatives (TGIs) in which states and/or intergovernmenta...
Who Joins? Democracy and State Participation in Transnational Governance
I offer a systematic account of the effect of democracy on countries’ participation in transnational public-private governance initiatives (TGIs) in which st...
2018
Preventing and Protecting: Reputation and the Design of International Cooperation
In collaboration with: Stefano Jud
2017
Can’t Buy Me Love? Specific and Diffuse Reciprocity in International Relations
In collaboration with: Samuel Brazys, Adrian O’Hagan, and Diana Panke
The consequences of institutional complexity: How institutional overlap affects the creation and design of intergovernmental organizations
In collaboration with: Bernhard Reinsberg
Measuring Transnational Public-Private Governance Initiatives in World Politics: A New Dataset
This paper introduces a new dataset on transnational public-private governance initiatives (TGIs) in world politics. TGIs are institutions in which states an...
The Continent of International Law
Barbara Koremenos presents an important book that opens up new frontiers in the study of international cooperation and the design of international institutio...
2016
Power or Domestic Politics? Explaining State Participation in Informal International Institutions
Funded by the University of St. Gallen
Multiplex Choices: Intra- and Inter-Network Dependencies and the Formation of Military Alliances
The formation, maintenance, and dissolution of military alliances is the result of strategic interaction among nations. In this paper, I argue that states’ a...
New Power Politics
In collaboration with: Deborah Avant
Networks and Transnational Security Governance
In collaboration with: Deborah Avant
Bargaining in Networks: Relationships and the Governance of Conflict Diamonds
In the early 2000s, the international efforts to stop “conflict diamonds” from fueling civil wars in Africa underwent dramatic institutional change. After a s...
The Evolution of Transnational Governance Interactions: A Network Approach
Transnational public-private governance initiatives (TGIs) in which governments and/or formal intergovernmental organizations, business, and civil society or...
Networked international politics: Complex interdependence and the diffusion of conflict and peace
In collaboration with: Han Dorussen and Erik Gartzke
The complex structure of commercial peace contrasting trade interdependence, asymmetry, and multipolarity
In collaboration with: Erik Gartzke
2015
Measuring Transnational Networks: A Multiple-Sources and Multiple-Measurement Approach
In the last 15 years, there has been a surge of writing about new forms of transnational governance constituted by various mixtures of state and non-state ac...
War is in the Variance/Covariance Structure of the Error Terms: International Networks and the Bargaining Theory of War
In collaboration with: Erik Gartzke and Hugh Ward
Informal Governance, Networks and the Politics of Transnational Public-Private Security Governance
Transnational institutions in which states, firms, and NGOs cooperate to govern the negative externalities of global corporate conduct vary in their institut...
The Politics of Informal Governance
Funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS)
2013
Formal and Informal Governance in the UN Peacebuilding Commission
Post-conflict peacebuilding — understood as efforts undertaken at the end of a civil war to create conditions under which peace is consolidated and violence ...
2012
Informal International Lawmaking
Research on international cooperation has made substantial progress by taking seriously the formal details of international institutions, such as internation...
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The Diffusion of Democracy through Informal Networks
In collaboration with: Jon Pevehouse
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Modeling Spatial and Network Interdependence in International Relations
In collaboration with: Kristian Gleditsch and Jos Elkink
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Interdependence Really is Complex
In collaboration with: Erik Gartzke