Publications

Prof. Dr. Thomas Sommerer:

Sommerer, Thomas; and Liese, Andrea (2024). "Can International Institutions Still Deliver? Patterns and Sources of Effectiveness and Democracy in Global Governance"ENSURED Research Report, no. 1 (April): 1-48. https://www.ensuredeurope.eu.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Sommerer:

Sommerer , Thomas; Agné, Hans; Zelli, Fariborz; and Bart Bes (2022). Global legitimacy crises: Decline and revival of multilateral governance. Oxford:Oxford University Press. 

Sommerer, Thomas; Duit, Andreas; and Sijeong Lim (2022): "Umweltschutz zwischen Staat und Markt: Regulierung und Performanz in 37 Ländern 1970–2010", in: Kailitz, Steffen; Pickel, Susanne; and Claudia Wiesner (ed.): Parties, institutions and preferences. The shape and impact of partisan politics. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 299-329.

Dr. Maria J. Debre:

Debre, Maria J.; and Hylke Dijkstra (2022): "Are international organizations in decline? An absolute and relative perspective on institutional change", in: Global Policy, forthcoming. 

Debre, Maria J. (2022): "Clubs of autocrats: Regional organizations and authoritarian survival", in: The Review of international organizations, Vol. 17/No.3, 485-511.

Dijkstra, Hylke; and Maria J. Debre (2022): "The death of major international organizations: When institutional stickiness is not enough", in: Global Studies Quarterly, Vol. 2/No. 4 (October 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksac048.

Book Review: 

Debre, Maria J.: „The closure of the international system: How institutions create political equalities and hierarchies" by Lora Anne Viola (2020), H-Diplo Roundtable XXIII-49.

Commentary: 

Debre, Maria J.: "Diagnosing threats to democracy", University of California/Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Forum (June 18, 2022), available at: https://ucigcc.org/news/diagnosing-threats-to-democracy/ 

Prof. Dr. Thomas Sommerer:

Agné, Hans, Sommerer, Thomas, and David G. Angeler (2020): Introducing the Sounds of Data to the Study of Politics: A Choir of Global Legitimacy Crisis. New Political Science 42(3), forthcoming.

Koliev, Faradj, Sommerer, Thomas, and Jonas Tallberg (2020): Compliance without coercion: Effects of reporting on international labor rights. Journal of Peace Research. 

Koliev, Faradj, Sommerer, Thomas, and Tallberg, Jonas (2020): Reporting matters: performance indicators and compliance in the ILO. In: Judith Kelley and Beth Simmons (eds.): The Power of Global Performance Indicators. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 7. Forthcoming.

Tallberg, Jonas, Lundgren, Magnus, Sommerer, Thomas, and Squatrito, Theresa (2020): Why International Organizations Commit to Liberal Norms, International Studies Quarterly 

Dr. Maria Debre:

Debre, M.J. (2020). Legitimation, regime survival, and shifting alliances in the Arab League: Explaining sanction politics during the Arab Spring. International Political Science Review, online first. 

Trump's 'America First' Approach has Targeted International Institutions -  But they've proved to be resilient. The Loop, (November 25, 2020) (with Hylke Dijkstra)

Institutional design for a post-liberal order: Why some International Organizations live longer than others. European Journal of International Relations, online first, 2020 (with Hylke Dijkstra).

Prof. Dr. Thomas Sommerer:

Sommerer, Thomas and Agné, Hans (2018): Consequences of Legitimacy in Global Governance. In: Jonas Tallberg Karin Bäckstrand, Jan Aart Scholte eds) Legitimacy in Global Governance: Sources, Processes, and Consequences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dr. Maria Debre:

Debre, Maria J.; and Sebastian Knecht (2018): "Die 'digitale IO': Chancen und Risiken von Online-Daten für die Forschung zu Internationalen Organisationen. [The 'digital IO': Chances and Risks of Online Data for Research on International Relations.], in: ZIB Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, Vol. 25/No. 1, 175-188.

Debre, Maria J. (2018): "How global efforts to promote regional organizations can strengthen authoritarian regimes". Scholars Strategy Network Key Findings.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Sommerer:

Sommerer, Thomas (2016): Transnationale Zivilgesellschaft zwischen Dissidenz und Partizipation: Zum Zusammenhang von Protesten und der Institutionellen Öffnung Internationaler Organisationen. Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 23 (2), 42-77.

Sommerer, Thomas and Tallberg, Jonas (2016): Transnational Access to International Organizations 1950–2010: A New Data Set. International Studies Perspectives. Online first, doi: 10.1093/isp/ekv022.

Sommerer, Thomas and Lim, Sijeong (2016): The Environmental State as a Model for the World? An Analysis of Policy Repertoires in 37 Countries. Environmental Politics 25 (1): 92-115.

Squatrito, Theresa, Sommerer, Thomas and Tallberg, Jonas (2016): Transnational Access to International Organizations 1950-2010: Structural Factors and Critical Junctures. Forthcoming in: Thomas Rixen, Lora Viola and Michael Zürn (eds.): Historical Institutionalism and International Relations: Explaining Institutional Development in World Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Tallberg, Jonas, Sommerer, Thomas, Squatrito, Theresa and Lundgren, Magnus (2016): The Performance of International Organizations: An Output-Based Approach. Journal of European Public Policy, forthcoming.                     

Tallberg, Jonas, Sommerer, Thomas, Squatrito, Theresa (2016): Democratic Memberships in International Organizations: Sources of Institutional Design. Review of International Organizations, 11(1): 59-87.

Dr. Maria Debre:

Fatma gegen Goliath. Frauen erlangen das Wahlrecht in Saudi-Arabien. [Fatma vs Goliath. Women gain the Right to Vote in Saudi Arabia.] Mediterranes 1/2016, 40-41.