My latest on global governance in the era of Trump, Putin, and Xi @carnegieendowment.org . As major powers disengage or disrupt, alternatives can sustain cooperation, avoiding stagnation or fragmentation--and a future dominated by predation and closure. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Victory despite being outjürgened by Curaçao. Promising start! 🇩🇪

New blog in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social: How does such competition affect MDBs' performance? We find that competitive pressure improves the quality of newly approved World Bank projects while ongoing projects remain unaffected. Check out our article in @coco-journal.bsky.social: shorturl.at/ou3D8

💰️ How does competition affect the performance of multilateral development banks? 📊 Bernhard Reinsberg & @benjaminfaude.bsky.social show that while pressure improves the quality of newly approved #WorldBank projects, it has no significant effect on ongoing ones. 👉 buff.ly/TZFqn3f

New blog in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social: How does such competition affect MDBs' performance? We find that competitive pressure improves the quality of newly approved World Bank projects while ongoing projects remain unaffected. Check out our article in @coco-journal.bsky.social: shorturl.at/ou3D8

10 big questions about IO withdrawals and member suspensions – and the consequences for countries that exit international organizations. In our latest "Good to Know" - Exiting an international organization. goodauthority.org/news/good-to...

What a wonderful piece of writing.

Exciting news for the global governance community! At a time when global governance face significant challenges, building durable networks for scholarly exchange and supporting early-career researchers is more important than ever. Wishing the consortium every success in this important endeavour.

Really excited to be part of this agenda-setting workshop in Québec next week, so thoughtfully organised by @jfmorin.bsky.social & @gbeaumier.bsky.social.

Thanks to @markus-gastinger.eu for the thoughtful review of #LongProblems in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal..., which includes a wonderfully clear summary of the argument

So war es. Und so ist es. Und so wird es immer sein.

New article in @coco-journal.bsky.social! B. Reinsberg and I ask: does competition in the global development finance HIC improve results? Drawing on data from 30 MDBs across 144 countries, our answer is: yes, it can - at least among major development banks. Check out our piece: bit.ly/49HTEir

This piece nicely extends the argument that @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social and I make in "Destruction or Renewal? Trumpism and the Future of Global Governance." Do give our piece a read if the topic interests you: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The new book is finally out with Pitt Latin American Series! Available now in hardback and paperback from all the usual places

The @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions are always an intellectual highlight. This year I co-organised the workshop “Global Governance in Times of Disruption” with @yoramhaftel.bsky.social. Incredibly rewarding. Global governance is under pressure, but research in the field has never been stronger.

A fantastic week in Brussels leading a study trip with our postgraduate IR students. Great to see them engaging directly with EU policymakers and gaining first-hand insights into decision-making, alongside thought-provoking perspectives from the FES. Many thanks to all our speakers for their time.

And here are the data as a bar chart pooled across the 10 years. So, Italy, looks to be doing better than Germany and France. But one year (2022-23) contributed one third (5) of all slots for Italy.

New article in @ripejournal.bsky.social w/ @sebhaug.bsky.social and Han Cheng on China's new Global Development Initiative. We contend that the GDI is a form of institutional layering that serves as a component of China's counter-hegemonic strategy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

La Bestia Negra turned red!

Verneigung!

Habermas' letzte Veroeffentlichung in der SZ, basierend auf einem Vortrag zur Frage: „Kann sich die EU dem autoritären Sog der USA noch entziehen?"

"The prime minister indicated that the conflict had refocused the government on “ambitious” new ties with Europe, economically and in defence, and said how Britain emerged from the crisis “would define us for a generation”." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Global Environmental Politics celebrates 25 years of impactful scholarship with a special anniversary issue, "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics." We're pleased to make this landmark issue available to read for free through May: direct.mit.edu/glep/issue @gepjournal.bsky.social

The death of Jürgen Habermas made me revisit my only foray into normative political theory. Our argument: normative progress in global governance comes from increasingly encompassing justifications -- a thought very much in the spirit of Habermasian philosophy. academic.oup.com/isq/article-...

Is global governance fit for crisis? In our blog for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social, Ken Abbott and I argue that the resilience of global governance depends on combining robust institutions with flexible arrangements, leadership, and the capacity to learn during crises. theloop.ecpr.eu/is-global-go...

🌐 @benjaminfaude.bsky.social of @ecprsgir.bsky.social & Kenneth W Abbott examine how #GlobalGovernance performs under pressure 🚨, arguing that resilience depends on combining robust institutions with flexible arrangements, effective leadership + the capacity to adapt during crises. 👉️ bit.ly/4unpDxf

Is global governance fit for crisis? In our blog for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social, Ken Abbott and I argue that the resilience of global governance depends on combining robust institutions with flexible arrangements, leadership, and the capacity to learn during crises. theloop.ecpr.eu/is-global-go...

Lupenreiner Hattrick von Valverde. Wahnsinn!

Last lecture of SocSci H1F: Explanation in the Social Sciences, the class that @laurennross.bsky.social and I co-teach at UCI. The class brings together the philosophy of science on explanation with case studies from International Relations, illustrating how explanation matters for social science. 🧵

New paper with Stefan Renckens in @ripejournal.bsky.social! Sustainable finance standards are often accused of being highly fragmented. We built an original dataset of 111 Sustainable Finance Governance Initiatives (SFGIs), covering 2000-2020, to see for ourselves. The result? It's complicated.

Grundsätzlich hat er recht: Im Umgang mit Trumps USA stehen Europaer vor einem kollektiven Handlungsproblem. Allerdings übersieht der Artikel, welche Folgen verschiedene Handlungsoptionen auf den Krieg in der Ukraine haben. Man bewegt sich hier in 'nested games'. www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/trum...

Pedro Sánchez responded to Trump’s threat to cut off all trade with Spain over his government’s refusal to facilitate the US’s attacks against Iran, comparing the growing conflict in the Middle East to playing “Russian roulette with the destiny of millions”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

On Iran, Merz offers a set of unsubstantiated claims. What he says about international law is inconsistent.

Pedro Sanchez is showing real leadership here. youtu.be/6nhqSqDfeBY?...

It's well known that autocratic systems of governance can move rapidly, either toward beneficial outcomes or toward disaster, without the mediating effects of public debate or the need to justify actions. If Trump’s domestic agenda progresses, its consequences for world politics can't be overstated.

Trumpist Ezra Cohen hat sich heute morgen in einem Interview mit BBC Radio 4 auf BK Merz berufen, um voelkerrechtliche Einwaende gegen das Handeln der USA zu entkraeften. In einer sich wandelnden Welt die Nähe zu Trump & Co. zu suchen, birgt große strategische Risiken & gefaehrdet dt. Reputation.

Looking forward to reading this: "Legitimation Strategies of Transnational Private Institutions: Evidence From the International Organization for Standardization" by Solveig Bjørkholt 👇

'Carney posited the choice thus: “Compete with each other for favor, or combine to create a third path with impact.”' www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

So despite the EU saying they don't agree with the premise of the Board of Peace, a majority of EU member states will be represented tomorrow (14) + the EU itself Very strange way to show that you disagree with something

And with @benjaminfaude.bsky.social (@glasgow.ac.uk) on the key role of other Western powers' response to #Trump to avoid that the rules-based order gives way to a power-based order in Global Public Policy and Governance #GPPG: doi.org/10.1007/s435...

A key contribution that is particularly admirable in its clarity.

Waehrend Mark Carneys Rede die Welt veraendert hat, verlaeuft die Rede von Friedrich Merz im Sand. Es sollte eine Grundsatzrede sein. Es war eine Abarbeitung von Spiegelstrichen. Es fehlt eine Leitidee, ein klarer Kompass. Die Rede spricht von einer neuen Aera, denkt aber in alten Kategorien.

"In the absence of the most desirable outcome that I and the Labour commission support – the replacement of the Lords by an elected second chamber – we need immediate action to exclude lobbyists and to mandate rigorous standards of disclosure." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Imagine a new multipolar order where the dollar is the sole remaining vestige of US hegemony, continuing on like the light from a long-dead star ...

"About 6.8 million people – half of all those in poverty – were in very deep poverty, the highest number and proportion since records began three decades ago, said the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), which carried out the analysis."

According to a usually well-informed source, Mark Carney personally wrote the entire speech he delivered in Davos earlier this week. Impressive. Gives hope.

"The real question now is whether the 2020s will be defined by the complete collapse of the order’s already crumbling pillars and the atrocities accompanying it, or whether an international coalition of the willing can come together to build a new global framework in its place."