Dissemination Activities

Invitations for project-related talks

• European Integration under Stress: Policy Failures and Disintegration Tendencies, 2019 Politics and Culture in Europe Annual Lecture, Maastricht University, 17.04.2019.
• Speaking with a Single Voice in the Two-level Game Brexit Negotiations?, London School of Economics and Political Science, Cumberland Lodge, 01.02.2019.
• The Existential Crisis of the EU: Causes and Consequences, University of Coimbra, 12.11.2018.
• Invigorating and Reforming Multilateral Governance,  European External Action Service, Brussels, 26.06.2018.
• Empowering International Organizations, Graduate Institute Geneva, 13.03.2018
• Conceptualization and Operationalization of Empowerment, Workshop Resourcing International Organizations, University of Munich, 23.06.2016.
• Measuring and Explaining Empowerment of International Organizations, University of Leipzig, 11.05.2016.
• Empowering International Organizations, Temple University, Philadelphia, 13.04.2016.
• Empowering International Organizations over Time, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 18.11.2015.
• Emerging Powers Preferences towards Empowerment of International Organizations, Free University Berlin, 22.06.2015.
• Internal cohesiveness and external effectiveness of the EU in global governance, Princeton University, March 2014.
• Delegation of Power to International Organizations and Institutional Empowerment over Time, University of Bonn, 10.07.2013.

Presentations at international conferences and workshops

• Privatization of Development Governance: Adaptation Strategies of the World Bank in Turbulent Times, paper presented at International Studies Association 2019, Toronto, March 25-30, 2019.
• Democracy in Decline? How Rising Authoritarianism Limits Democratic Control Over International Institutions, paper presented at SPSA Annual Conference & Dreiländertagung, Zurich, February 14-16, 2019.
• Back to Bretton Woods: How Institutional Proliferation Has Increased the Resilience of the World Bank, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 30-September 2, 2018.
• European Policy Failure during the Refugee Crisis: Partial Empowerment, Reluctant Agents, a Cacophony of Voices, and Unilateral Action, European University Institute, 2018.
• Independence, Accountability, and Legitimacy: Mission Impossible for the European Central Bank?, paper presented at the ECPR Standing Groups Sciences Po, June 13-15, 2018.
• European Policy Failure during the Refugee Crisis: Partial Empowerment, Reluctant Agents, a Cacophony of Voices, and Unilateral Action, paper presented at the ECPR Standing Groups Sciences Po, June 13-15, 2018.
• Independence, Accountability, and Legitimacy: Mission Impossible for the European Central Bank?, paper presented at the 25^thInternational Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 28-30, 2018.
• European Policy Failure during the Refugee Crisis: Partial Empowerment, Reluctant Agents, a Cacophony of Voices, and Unilateral Action, paper presented at the 25^thInternational Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 28-30, 2018.
• The EU Performance During the Refugee Crisis, paper presented at the 25^thInternational Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 28-30, 2018.
• Global Democracy in Decline? How Rising Authoritarianism limits Democratic Control over Multilateral Development Banks, paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, April 4-7, 2018.
• EU Governance in Crisis Mode: Disempowering the European Commission, paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, September 6-9, 2017.
• Contested Multilateralism and the World Bank: Explaining the Establishment of the New Development Bank, paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, September 6 – 9, 2017 and at the DVPW IP-Sektionstagung, October 4-6, 2017.
• Power without Control? Explaining variety of accountability mechanisms across troika institutions, paper presented at the European Workshops in International Studies, Accountability in Global Governance, Cardiff, June 07-10, 2017.
• The Systematic Study of Commission Discretion using Principal–Agent Theory: Lessons from the EU’s Development Cooperation Policy, paper presented at the EUSA Biennial Conference, Miami, 4-6 May, 2017.
• Disintegration Dynamics in Europe? Mass Migration, Cacophony of Voices, and External Spill-Back Processes, paper presented at the EUSA Biennial Conference, Miami, 4-6 May, 2017.
• The Silent Empowerment of the ECB During the Euro Crisis, paper presented at the EUSA Biennial Conference, Miami, 4-6 May, 2017.
• Rise and Decline of Old Bretton Woods Institutions: Dysfunctionality and Insulation at the World Bank, paper presented at the ISA Annual Convention, Baltimore, February 22-25, 2017.
• Explaining the Empowerment of International Organizations, paper presented at 58th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Baltimore, February 22-25, 2017.
• Exploring the Paradox of Increasing Transparency in TTIP Negotiations, paper presented at the Council for European Studies 23rd International Conference for Europeanists, Philadelphia, April 14-16 and at the Interdisciplinary Conference on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) at the University of Gothenburg March 14-15, 2016.
• Empowering International Organizations, paper presented at the 57th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, March 16-19, 2016 and University of Munich Workshop on “Resourcing International Organizations”.
• Partisan Orientation of Old and New Power Governments towards Empowerment at the World Bank, paper presented at the 57th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, March 16-19, 2016.
• Variation Without Influence? (In)formal Policy-making in EU Development Cooperation, paper presented at the Council for European Studies 23rd International Conference for Europeanists, Philadelphia, April 14-16.
• How Effective are Informal Coalitions in Global Governance? Rising Powers as shapers of global health rules, paper presented at the 57th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, March 16-19, 2016.
• The World Health Organization’s adaptive capacity in a complex inter-organizational environment“ paper presented at the 57th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, March 16-19, 2016.
• Lost in Internal Evaluation: Accountability and Insulation at the World Bank, Paper presented at the workshop, “The Transformative Power of Regulatory Governance”, Copenhagen Business School, February 4-5, 2016.
• Negotiating Styles of Rising Powers in Global Economic Governance, paper presented at the Workshop “From Rule-Takers to Rule-Makers: Emerging Powers in the Regulation of International Trade”, University of Geneva February 9-10, 2016.
• Emerging Power Preferences towards Institutional Empowerment of International Organizations, paper presented at the ISA 2015 Annual Convention, New Orleans, February 18-21, 2015.
• Acting on Behalf of Collective and Multiple Principals: The European’s Commission Discretion after Lisbon, paper presented at the at the European Union Studies Association, Boston March 5-7, 2015.
• Accountable to Whom and How? Logics of Accountability in EU Governance during the Sovereign Debt Crisis, paper presented at the European Union Studies Association, Boston, 5-7, 2015.
• Acting on Behalf of Collective and Multiple Principals: The European’s Commission Discretion after Lisbon, paper presented at the Workshop The EU in International Negotiations, Global Governance Program, European University Institute, 23-24 June 2014.
• The Perils of Delegation: Using Oversight Mechanisms to Minimize Agency Slack. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Salamanca, 11-14 April 2014.
• When Speaking with a Single Voice Isn’t Enough: Bargaining Power (A)symmetry and EU External Effectiveness in Global Trade Governance, paper presented at the Council for European Studies, Washington DC, 14-16 March 2014.
• Delegation of Power to International Organizations and Institutional Empowerment over Time, paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Mainz, 12-15 March 2013.
• Delegation of Power to International Organizations and Institutional Empowerment over Time: A Research Design, paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, 3-6 April 2013.
• A Cacophony of Voices? The EU’s Cohesiveness in the Negotiation of Bilateral and Multilateral Trade Agreements, paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, 3-6 April 2013 and at the European Union Studies Association, Baltimore, 9-11 May 2013.
• The EU as a Global Actor: The Impact of Asymmetrical Bargaining Power and BATNAS on Trade Agreements, paper presented at the Conference for European Union Studies Association, Boston, 22-24 March 2012.

DELPOWIO workshops

Workshop 2017: Bretton Woods @ 75: Legacies and Innovations in Global Economic Governance (December 8-10, 2017 – Munich/Raitenhaslach)

The 75th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference offers an important occasion to assess the legacies of the agreements at the conference and the politics surrounding innovations in the modern global economic system since 1944. This workshop discusses the contributions to a Special Issue for the Review of International Political Economy that examines the politics of continuity and change in global economic governance. The focus is on the institutions that were established at Bretton Woods and those that emerged with time to manage a growing global economy and help governments cope with new international and domestic realities

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