<img class="aligncenter" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4098/4875850260_4ab6cb7212_m_d.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="160", align ="center" /> From September 19 – 20, I head the pleasure to participate in a great workshop on The Global History of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The workshop brought together of number of researchers from different disciplines, researching the IAEA. The workshop was...

To learn more about Coincidence Analysis (CNA), I looked through the article by Baumgartner and Epple on A Coincidence Analysis of a Causal Chain: The Swiss Minaret Vote to see how they apply the method of CNA, described in Baumgartner 2009 (Inferring Causal Complexity ). Since I was trying to...

Hier ein großartiger Twitter-basierter Tagungsbericht zur IB Nachwuchstagung 2014 vom Kollegen Sören Stapel. View the story “IB-Nachwuchstagung 2014″ on Storify

This is a cross-posting from the Global Norms Blog In our research project, we ask how norms of global governance have changed. One indicator for growing attention to democratic norms is the participation of non-state actors in the processes of intergovernmental organizations. In my dissertation, I focus on this aspect...

Cross-posting from the global norms blog In our collaborative research, we are examining changes in how international organizations try to legitimize their activities to various audiences. The larger goal is to identify patterns of changing norms that underpin the legitimization efforts of international organizations. Here’s a quick overview of some patterns for the case...