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Thomas Sommerer

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Prof @unipotsdam | Political Science and International Organizations

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Maria Debre @debremaria.bsky.social · Sep 5

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/...

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Thomas Sommerer @tsommerer.bsky.social · Sep 5

➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00108367251364170

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Thomas Sommerer @tsommerer.bsky.social · Sep 4

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/...

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ENSURED @ensured.bsky.social · Sep 2

📢 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

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Benjamin Faude @benjaminfaude.bsky.social · Sep 1

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:

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ENSURED @ensured.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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intlcollaboration.bsky.social @intlcollaboration.bsky.social · Feb 24

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

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ENSURED @ensured.bsky.social · Jul 3

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

www.ensuredeurope.eu

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ENSURED @ensured.bsky.social · May 5

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

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Tomoko Takahashi @tomokotkhsh.bsky.social · Apr 1

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

academic.oup.com

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Andrea Knapp @andreaknapp.bsky.social · Mar 20

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/...

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ENSURED @ensured.bsky.social · Mar 17

🌐 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!

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Thomas Sommerer @tsommerer.bsky.social · Mar 11

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.

Maria Debre @debremaria.bsky.social · Mar 10

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?

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Maria Debre @debremaria.bsky.social · Mar 10

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Nina Reiners @ninareiners.bsky.social · Mar 3

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...

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Hylke Dijkstra @hdijkstra.bsky.social · Mar 3

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...

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ENSURED @ensured.bsky.social · Feb 26

📅 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.

www.ensuredeurope.eu

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Hylke Dijkstra @hdijkstra.bsky.social · Feb 24

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 👇

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · Feb 13

🚨 #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

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intlcollaboration.bsky.social @intlcollaboration.bsky.social · Feb 6

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...

Section48 - American Political Science Association (APSA)

International Collaboration (Section 48) The International Collaboration (IC) Section of the American Political Science Association works to promote and

apsanet.org

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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · Jan 27

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.

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Hylke Dijkstra @hdijkstra.bsky.social · Jan 24

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

academic.oup.com

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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · Jan 20

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...

www.ensuredeurope.eu

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Kilian Spandler @kilianspandler.bsky.social · Dec 16

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

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ENSURED @ensured.bsky.social · Dec 11

📅 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/...

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ZIB @ZIBjournal @zibjournal.bsky.social · Dec 5

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

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ZIB @ZIBjournal @zibjournal.bsky.social · Dec 5

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

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ZIB @ZIBjournal @zibjournal.bsky.social · Dec 5

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

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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · Dec 5

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...

ZIB Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen - Nomos eLibrary

Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB) is the flagship journal of the German International Relations community. According to a poll amongst Ge…

www.nomos-elibrary.de

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