CfP for the ECPR General Conference 2026!! Submit your papers now to one of the magnificent panels in our Section!

📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Papers 🏛️ 21st Century International Organizations: Contestation and Crisis 🪑 Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir & @ajullmann.bsky.social ✔️ @ecprfederalism.bsky.social endorsed ⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/4GTy7fi #Polisky #InternetaionalRelations

New Roundtable "Global Governance in Hard Times" in Ethics & International Affairs. We are interested in whether the ‘drift’ of FIGOs and the proliferation of LCIs indicate the decline of global governance, or its adaptation to a significantly altered environment. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our findings call into question the business lobby’s narrative of severe economic harm resulting from due diligence law. For more details, see: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (5/5)

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency earlier this month. There's a LOT to be said about its content, but for now, I am sharing my first impressions in case you are interested 😎

How does participation in the human rights complaint mechanisms of the United Nations affect the situation of civil society organizations? To learn more on this question, please check out our new publication @bjpols.bsky.social

Thrilled that our piece 'Hollow Multilateralism' is out in the latest issue of @iajournal.bsky.social! Co-authored with @danielleflonk.bsky.social, we show how autocracies use liberal language to hollow out norms in internet governance and sideline critical non-state actors.

"The vote against the Ukrainian and European-backed resolution saw the US at odds with its longtime European allies and instead aligned with the aggressor in the war on the three-year anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine." www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

IUROPA (www.iuropa.pol.gu.se) joins forces with UCL and Nuffield College to organise an Early Career Researcher workshop on Social Science Approaches to Law and Courts. Apply by 31 March with @icuervo.bsky.social!

🌅 The polycrisis is forcing governments into a reactive short-termism. But to allay anxiety, governments should offer positive ideas for a collective future. Governments failing to convey hope, argues Greta Groß, only risks inciting populist 'retrotopias' bit.ly/3Powgfd

Race, shaming, and international human rights by Zoltán I. Búzás and Lotem Bassan-Nygate is now available in Early View. ajps.org/2024/12/16/r...

🎤 Neues Interview zum zib-Sonderheft „Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine und die Internationalen Beziehungen" mit den Autor:innen @elvirarosert.bsky.social und @thomasdiez.bsky.social - jetzt ansehen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDIS...

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Call for Papers! Panel: Innovations in Research on International Organizations: Representation, Discrimination and Power Dynamics Join @andrealiese.bsky.social and me at the upcoming @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference 2025. www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/pr...

Die zib 2/24 ist da! Das Sonderheft Sonderheft „Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine und die Internationalen Beziehungen“ der Gastherausgeber:innen Anna Geis, @ndeitelhoff.bsky.social und @carlomasala1.bsky.social

Es freut mich sehr, dass der von Anna Geis, Ncole Deitelhoff und mir herausgegebene Sonderband des @ZIBjournal zum Thema Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine und die Internationalen Beziehungen nunmehr online verfügbar ist www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0946...

It's been a fantastic project working together with amazing @oisintansey.bsky.social, @birtegippert.bsky.social and Sarah von Billerbeck! "United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism" is open access, out in early 2025 If you're an academic, please order a copy for your library

Do states get "buyers remorse" and accept less treaty monitoring mechanisms after they get targeted by those very mechanisms? My study of complaint procedures under UN human rights treaties suggests that they sometimes do! Out now #OA in @the-peio.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mit Beiträgen von Anna Reuß, Stephan Stetter, Laura von Allwörden @lvapolsci.bsky.social und einem Forum zur Friedenstheorie in den IB, herausgegeben von Mathias Albert und Hendrik Simon @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social.

Weitere Informationen zu unserem 📢 call for editors gibt es hier www.nomos.de/zeitschrifte...

Interested in degrowth and human rights? See my new paper in HRLR where I translate @kateraworth.bsky.social Doughnut Economics into Doughnut Jurisprudence From Doughnut Economics to Doughnut Jurisprudence: A Human Rights Perspective | Human Rights Law Review | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

Looking beyond Ratification: Autocrats’ International Engagement w Women’s Rights w @andreavilan.bsky.social has issue # at Politics&Gender! Part of a wonderful symposium Gender Equality&Authoritarian Regimes edited by @sarahbush.bsky.social & @parzetterberg.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Call for editors 📣  Turnusmäßig steht im kommenden Jahr ein Wechsel der Herausgeberschaft und Redaktion der @zib an. Die IB-Sektion der DVPW sucht daher für 2025-2027 ein neues Team. Rückfragen an [email protected]

Die zib ist ab jetzt auch auf bluesky unterwegs! Hier geht’s zur aktuellen Ausgabe 2/23 in der Nomos eLibrary: www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0946...

New publication alert! “Co-Opting Truth” is out now in Human Rights Quarterly! #polisky #dictatorsky With @drshaunagillooly.bsky.social and Daniel Solomon, I develop and evaluate a theory of why and how autocrats use truth commissions. 🔗 here doi.org/10.1353/hrq.... 🧵 below

Hey folks! Sara Kahn Nisser&I are putting together a special issue proposal on human rights&democratic backsliding. Great papers with us so far! Looking to add a couple more to be considered part of our proposal. Reach out with title/abstract (and/or questions) by Jan 10!

Excited to share my latest coauthored rational design of international law research, out now in the Journal of Human Rights: “Do human rights treaty obligations matter for ratification?” Yes! States are less likely to ratify treaties with more demanding obligations. doi.org/10.1080/1475... 🌐

I'm thrilled my article "Empowering your victims: Why repressive regimes allow individual petitions in international organizations" is published at Review of Intl Organizations! I find repressive govs allow petitions bc intl demand but there are domestic costs. link.springer.com/article/10.1...