🏛️New report on global institutions! Drawing on ENSURED's 15 case studies, our latest research by @hdijkstra.bsky.social shows that reform is far from straightforward, but there remains unexploited potential. @tsommerer.bsky.social @claraweinhardt.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social 👇

Reforming Global Institutions in an Era of Geopolitical Strain: Evidence from 15 Case Studies - Research Report | ENSURED

Global governance is often described as being in crisis, yet demand for effective international cooperation has never been higher. Drawing on ENSURED's 15 case studies, this report asks: How can inter...

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🚨🗣️ 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 👇

Robust, Effective, and Democratic Global Governance for a World in Transition: Evidence From the ENSURED Expert Survey - Research Report | ENSURED

Based on the ENSURED Expert Survey, this report offers a global assessment of how 110 international organisations (IOs) are coping in today’s turbulent world.

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

European Consortium for Political Research@ecpr.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣 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 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 👇

Between Stability and Stagnation: The Performance and Openness of International Organisations in a Changing Global Order - Research Report | ENSURED

As global governance faces rising geopolitical pressures, understanding how IOs are performing is increasingly vital. Drawing on two updated datasets, this report maps how IO effectiveness and inclusi...

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📝 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 👇

Reforming the World Health Organization After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Diagnosis and Prognosis - Research Report | ENSURED

How well has the World Health Organization’s reform agenda since 2020 addressed the longstanding and emergent challenges the organization faces? The post-COVID-19 reform agenda shows significant momen...

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🌻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

Moving Global Biodiversity Governance Forward: How to Strengthen the Convention on Biological Diversity - Research Report | ENSURED

More than 30 years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) came into force, the world is still struggling to slow biodiversity loss. Is the CBD still up to the task?

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

ENSURED@ensured.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 New Research on the world’s first legally binding treaty on AI: Wade Hoxtell (@gppi.bsky.social) explores the negotiation process behind the Council of Europe’s new “Framework Convention.” How robust, effective, & democratic will this treaty prove to be?👇 www.ensuredeurope.eu/publications...

📢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

The Global Governance of Sex and Gender: Women's and LGBTQI+ Rights Amid Regress, Reform, and Resilience - Research Report | ENSURED

After decades of progress and some landmark wins, women’s and LGBTQI+ rights are becoming increasingly contested on the global stage. How resilient is human rights governance in the face of pushback?

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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

Effects of Popular Legitimacy on International Organizations: An Elite Survey Experiment | The Journal of Politics

Whether or not popular legitimacy matters for international organizations (IOs) is a topic of extensive assumption but little rigorous research. A key obstacle has been the methodological difficulties...

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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/...

Are non-democracies taking over? Autocratization and international organization membership - Maria Josepha Debre, Thomas Sommerer, 2025

Broad scholarly consensus exists that the third wave of democratization had an important role in the expansion of power and influence of international organizat...

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Thomas Sommerer@tsommerer.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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/...

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

Publications | ENSURED: Shaping Cooperation for a World in Transition

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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...

Two Questions of Sovereignty: China and the Third World Countries in the United Nations General Assembly (1971–1990)

Abstract. Respect for sovereignty is a hallmark norm for the coalition between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Third World/Global South countr

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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.

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The Dictators’ Club: How Regional Organizations Sustain Authoritarian Rule (OUP) is out now! 📚 We live in an age of rising authoritarianism. Many assume that regional organizations (ROs) are key to help protect democracy and human rights - but what if they do the opposite?

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!

Panel: Effectiveness, Robustness, and Democracy of International Institutions - Event | ENSURED

This ISA panel presents research on international institutions in the realms of climate change, global trade, and migration.

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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 daniela.donno@ou.edu. 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...

"Stronger Europe, Stronger Multilateralism”: Defending Global Governance Under Trump 2.0 - Expert Blog | ENSURED

Trump 2.0’s ‘America First’ agenda threatens to undermine key multilateral institutions, from NATO to the WTO. Europe face a critical choice: appease US demands or fill the gap to preserve internation...

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

The Survival of International Organizations: Institutional Responses to Existential Challenges

Abstract. While international organizations (IOs) have played a central role in global governance in the post-Cold War period, during the last decade many

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