Tobias Weise

Some days ago, I handed in my dissertation “Participation and Transparency in Intergovernmental Security Organizations. Resource and Norm Driven Opening in the IAEA and OPCW” at the University of Bremen. In the study, I show how the IAEA and OPCW have become more open to non-state participation and how they...

In our collaborative research on the democratic rhetoric of IOs, we are developing explanatory models that explain why IOs use democracy as a normative point of reference when they describe who they are and what they do in their annual reports. In one of our models, we check if the...

In our collaborative research on the democratic rhetoric of IOs, we are developing explanatory models that explain why IOs use democracy as a normative point of reference when they describe who they are and what they do in their annual reports. In one of our models, we check if the...

Have you ever wondered how diplomats, i.e. arguably still the most powerful actors in international organizations, think and talk about the idea of non-state participation? In my most recent article in Global Governance, I argue that German diplomacy so far only rarely conceptualizes non-state participation in intergovernmental organizations as a...

This is a cross-posting from the Global Norms Blog From 2 to 5 December 2014, I had the pleasure to take part in the 19th Conference of the States Parties (CSP) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The OPCW implements the Chemical Weapons Convention, the international treaty...