Tobias Weise

Cross-posting from the global norms blog In early September, we had the pleasure to welcome a number of international researchers in Bremen for the Global Norms Conference on the Legitimation and Delegitimation of Global Governance Organizations (click to see the whole program). In the following paragraphs, I will discuss some highlights of a...

Cross-posting from global norms blog Klaus Dingwerth & Tobias Weise In a recent article (full text) published in a Leviathan special issue on ‘The Rise of Legitimation Politics’ (Der Aufstieg der Legitimitätspolitik, edited by Anna Geis, Frank Nullmeier and Christopher Daase), we take issue with the idea of an ‘authority-politicization...

Cross-posting from global norms blog I had the pleasure to visit this year’s IAEA General Conference in Vienna (see some of my photos, below). The IAEA is one of the organizations we analyze in our broader research on changing norms of global governance. So, the direct contact with the organization...

Cross-Posting from the global norms blog In my last blog post, I quickly presented a preliminary, quantitative look at our textbook corpus.  From that perspective, it appeared as though there has been little change over the last four decades regarding how textbook authors evaluate international institutions. While we did find some...

Cross-Posting from the global norms blog Welcome back to the global norms blog. In this post, I will briefly discuss some findings of our first phase. In our first study, we were looking at a selection of academic textbooks to find out how textbook authors evaluate international institutions and how...