PhD. Year six. A career year. It's now or never! Time to drown out the noise and revamp my playlist... #PhilsPhDPlaylist S06E01 Elton John - I'm still standing "I'm still standin' Better than I ever did Lookin' like a true survivor Feelin' like a little kid"

"The politics of IO authority transfers" has found a permanent #openaccess home @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 B. Zangl and I develop a Political Contest Theory (PCT) to explain both unilateral #renationalization and informal #internationalization 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why do many IOs struggle to learn despite a plethora of formal learning processes and tools? In my new ISQ article, I argue that the criticism culture—the way IOs deal with criticism from their employees—is an overlooked but crucial variable to explain (the lack of) learning in IOs. 🧵 lmy.de/DsCjm

On my way to #ISA2025. Let me know if you want to meet up. See you in Chicago!

I'll give a talk at the Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social on Thursday, 12 December. "Are liberal orders self-defeating?" is the small question for the afternoon. If you are around, do consider joining the conversation! Looking forward to it! www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

Call for papers: international workshop on Social Purpose in International Order. Please share! www.hsu-hh.de/polipo/en/ne...

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

To prevent students of my "Life Cycles of IOs" course from playing their own card games in class, I'm introducing them to my IO Birthdays Game today.

Advertising across platforms: Our case study on "Crisis and Change at IOM", co-authored with Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, is available open access with Cambridge University Press.