🚨🗣️ ENSURED Expert Survey New research by Soetkin Verhaegen, @hdijkstra.bsky.social & @tsommerer.bsky.social offers a global assessment (based on a survey of 763 experts) of how 110 international organisations are coping in today’s turbulent world. @maastrichtu.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social 👇

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

New ENSURED report from @tsommerer.bsky.social & @haeunchoi.bsky.social examines how IOs are performing under rising geopolitical and democratic strain. Based on 2 updated datasets (1980–2023), it offers a system-wide view of IO performance and openness in today’s global order. What they found 👇

📝 REPORT: WHO Reform During COVID-19, all eyes were on the World Health Organization (WHO) 👀. It exposed structural weaknesses and underlined the (already-existing) need for reform. In a new ENSURED report, Óscar Fernández and Mirko Heinzel (Maastricht University) take stock of these reforms 👇

🌻It's been 30+ years since the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force. Is the CBD still getting the job done? In a new ENSURED report, Franziska Petri, Jayati Srivastava, Edith Drieskens & Noa Lameire examine the state of biodiversity governance👇 @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

Interesting new study on the CoE Framework Convention on #AI 👇

📢NEW REPORT! Increasingly, women’s and LGBTQI+ rights are being contested on the global stage. In ENSURED’s latest report, Ha Eun Choi & @andrealiese.bsky.social chart how resilient human rights governance is in the face of contestation. 👇 @unipotsdam.bsky.social

Does popular legitimacy matter for international organizations? In our new article @thejop.bsky.social, @tsommerer.bsky.social and I provide unique experimental evidence that politicians are responsive to popular legitimacy when deciding on the authority and resources of IOs. doi.org/10.1086/735474

How does autocratization affect the capacity of IOs to tackle global challenges? @debremaria.bsky.social and I receive funding from @dfg.de for a 3-year project on 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 and 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗜𝗢) @unipotsdam.bsky.social & @Zeppelin Uni

New publication with @tsommerer.bsky.social looking at changes of IO membership composition as a consequence of autocratization. Are non-democracies taking over? Available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Please join us for the launch of our E&IA Roundtable: 'Global Governance in Hard Times.' Presentations: Faude+Karlsrud; @yoramhaftel.bsky.social & @stephofmann.bsky.social; @ninareiners.bsky.social; Julia Morse; @mstephen.bsky.social. Comments: @hbirk.bsky.social; @tsommerer.bsky.social. Details:

How do international organizations change as the consequence of autocratization? A new article in @coco-journal.bsky.social with @debremaria.bsky.social explores how regime transformations affect IO membership composition. Are non-democracies taking over? ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How does the EU frame its role in multilateral governance? Where are its narrative strengths&weaknesses? Join us @ Robert Bosch Stiftung in Berlin, 18:00, Sept 9 for a discussion on this & other questions about strategic communications for multilateralism. Register: ensuredinberlin.eventbrite.com

📢 Out now: 5 new ENSURED reports on the state of multilateralism! Topics include: 💼 Trade-related agendas & the WTO: 🌱 The Paris Agreement at 10: 🌐 The WTO Pandemic Agreement: 🧳 UN Compacts on Migration & Refugees: 🪙 Regulating Digital Currencies: 🔗: www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications

For a more in-depth analysis of the state of democracy in IOs, delve into ENSURED’s latest round of research reports! 📖: www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications

Hot off the press: ENSURED’s first 5 research reports! 🥳🎉 Multilateralism: What's working, what isn’t & where is room for reform? A deep dive: 🛠 WTO reform 🌱 UNFCCC decision-making 💉 IP-Public Health nexus ⚖️ UN HRC 💻 Cyberspace governance Read the reports 👉 www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications

My article “Two Questions of Sovereignty: China and the Third World Countries in the United Nations General Assembly (1971–1990)” is now available (open access) with Global Studies Quarterly. Thank you to everyone’s advice throughout the process. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Still cannot believe it: the United Nations Security Council Resolution Authors (UNSCRA) dataset is out in the @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social 🥳

 Read here why the data is important and use it widely for your research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🌐 What is the state of global governance? @tsommerer.bsky.social sees it as 2 sides of the same coin: 🪙 There is a sense of stagnation. And yet... 🪙 IOs have often proven to be 'sticky'. This cautious optimism is backed by 2 key data sets — which Thomas & his team will update as part of ENSURED!

A must-read on the role of autocracies in international politics these days: @debremaria.bsky.social shows in her comparative analysis how regional organizations legitimate authoritarian rule and shield dictators from domestic oppositon and sanctions.

Hi #ISA2025! Please join us today to celebrate and discuss Leah R. Kimber's new book, a sociological analysis highlighting the increased exclusion of civil society despite their apparent inclusion in global governance institutions 🇺🇳 It's available OA: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/civil-societ...

Packed room and motivated audience in windowless basement of ISA conference hotel on Sunday 4pm to present our @ensured.bsky.social project on EU support for global governance transformation And, yes, the sun still in Chicago...

📅 ENSURED goes Chicago! Next week, we're hosting an #ISA2025 panel on global governance around climate, trade & migration. 🗣️: @gettingthekenksout.bsky.social, @claraweinhardt.bsky.social, @hdijkstra.bsky.social, @franziskapetri.bsky.social, @tsommerer.bsky.social, @andrealiese.bsky.social & more!

New work on legitimacy and IOs by @tsommerer.bsky.social and @jonastallberg.bsky.social published in the @thejop.bsky.social. Full article here: doi.org/10.1086/735474

With various wonderful ENSURED colleagues @andrealiese.bsky.social @tsommerer.bsky.social @claraweinhardt.bsky.social @liliantsourdi.bsky.social @franziskapetri.bsky.social and others. Concept and case studies on trade, migration, climate 👇

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

Please nominate for awards for the Int'l Collaboration section of APSA! Best article, dissertation, book, and mentor awards! Deadline is March 3, 2025. Submissions should be sent by email to [email protected]. You can find the award criteria and info here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

At #InaugurationDay, there is no doubt that #Trump 2.0 🇺🇸 will fundamentally challenge #Multilateralism. How can #Europe 🇪🇺 contribute to the resilience of #GlobalGovernance? 🇺🇳 For the @ensured.bsky.social expert blog, I wrote down my answer to this question: www.ensuredeurope.eu/blog/stronge...

PUBLICATION DAY! Our book "The Survival of International Organizations" is now available online (for free) with Oxford University Press 🎉 academic.oup.com/book/59488

Reichweite auf Bluesky, aber wie? Ein Leitfaden für Journalist:innen, die endlich von X weg wollen, aber merken, dass Ihre bisherige Strategie hier nicht funktioniert: Das Prinzip "nur senden" läuft hier nicht. Interaktion ist key, geht in den Austausch mit Leuten, schafft euch eine Community.

📅 US President Trump's next term may prove even tougher on multilateralism than his 1st. Join ENSURED's @hdijkstra.bsky.social, @claraweinhardt.bsky.social, Katja Biedenkopf, @stevenblockmans.bsky.social & Olivier Bailly (EEAS) to discuss how 🇪🇺 can respond. 👉 www.ensuredeurope.eu/news-events/...

New call for papers on "Populists in International Organisations" by CEJISS. Here's a link to our article on types of disengagement by populists that the call refers to in International Affairs: doi.org/10.1093/ia/i... #Populism #InternationalRelations #Multilateralism

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...

u.a. mit Beiträgen von: @thomasdiez.bsky.social @elvirarosert.bsky.social @cdaase.bsky.social @claudmajor.bsky.social @sabfis3.bsky.social @drfranksauer.bsky.social @sidtrip.bsky.social

➡️ hier geht es zum Heft: www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0946...

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

A short blogpost on informal governance & nongovernmental access - building on collaboration with Theresa Squatrito @lseir.bsky.social

I've seen so many great starter packs, but I've yet to encounter one on int'l organizations and cooperation. So, I made one. It is no doubt incomplete, but I hope you find it helpful nonetheless. Feel free to circulate and, if you have suggestions on who to add, send them my way! go.bsky.app/RbHqH38

On Nov 19 & 20, Brazil will host the next #G20Summit. In a new #ENSURED policy brief, colleagues at PUC-Rio explain that the meeting is an opportunity for the EU to join forces with Brazil around specific priorities – like ending hunger or climate change. 👇 www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications...

🇧🇷’s 2025 BRICS presidency will see new ties with the Global South & test the group’s capacity, says Mihaela Papa on the ENSURED blog. What does it mean for 🌍 cooperation? "The solution may not involve defending an old multilateralism, but envisioning a new one." www.ensuredeurope.eu/blog/brics-b...

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc in Computational Social Science, especially text analysis in the MULTIREP @ERC_Research project at Uni Vienna @Dept_Government . If you do quantitative text analysis & are interested in pol representation, this 👇 is for you 🧵 (1/4) wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

📣Job alert - interested in empirical research on IOs and global governance? #ECIB join us @unipotsdam for a 3-year post-doctoral research position (+max 3 years, 70% research)! Application deadline: 31/12/24. More information: tinyurl.com/e7py8brd

International organisations face growing pressure. But how effective & democratic have these institutions been over time & in different areas? @tsommerer.bsky.social & @andrealiese.bsky.social take stock of IOs & investigate where more research is needed: www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications...

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...

That's a wrap for Day 1 of our opening conference! Multilateralism is a big topic, so today was all about reining it in. The mission: gain clarity around our research question & 🔑concepts. Colleagues at the University of Potsdam started us off with thoughts about the theoretical framework!

On 4 December we'll kick off our new @ensured.bsky.social Horizon project with a roundtable in Brussels at CEPS 🌐 ENSURED is about EU support for global governance transformation ℹ️ Info + registration: www.ceps.eu/ceps-events/...

Demscore offers the infrastructure to simplify merging data from V-Dem, UCDP, and others and, at the same time to strengthen the reproducibility of research. However, I have the impression that we - myself included - have so far paid little attention to this project.

Hier könnt ihr nachlesen, was @drlutzboehm.bsky.social zum Stand der akademischen Wissenschaft zusammengetragen haben. @jmwiarda.bsky.social: Academic Crisis List www.jmwiarda.de/2023/02/21/d... Reform #WissZeitVG mit @jenniferhenke.bsky.social www.jmwiarda.de/2023/06/09/w...

Interested in research on international organizations? Two Post-Doc positions available (100%, 3y), deadline for application: 15.10.23 Come and work with us! tinyurl.com/bvc3zx9d (EU-Horizon, ENSURED) tinyurl.com/2s44nya3

The University of Potsdam (Andrea Liese / Thomas Sommerer) has a #vacancy for a three year #PostDoc / #Researcher position in #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience #Polisky: www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/pr...