Das Standardnarrativ der Politisierungsliteratur sieht die Politisierung internationaler Organisationen (IOs) einerseits als Folge der wachsenden Autorität von IOs (Autoritäts-Politisierungs-Nexus) und besagt andererseits, dass sie die Demokratisierung von IOs begünstigt...

The most recent transformation of world order is often depicted as a shift from a Westphalian to a post-Westphalian era in which international organizations are becoming increasingly independent sites of authority. This internationalization of authority is often considered as an indication of...

This essay analyses the consequences of contested multilateralism (CM) for the level of constitutionalisation of specific multilateral institutions. We argue that CM has implications for institutions' constitutional quality in particular if it is polity-driven and not (merely) policy-driven,...

The most recent transformation of world order is often depicted as a shift from a Westphalian to a post-Westphalian era in which international organizations are becoming increasingly independent sites of authority. This internationalization of authority is often considered as an indication of...

This contribution contends that the European Union (EU) has taken an authoritarian turn in the past crisis decade, which needs to be systematically addressed in EU studies. Starting from an ideal-typical conception of scenarios for the EU's emergent political order, it argues that there has been...

The DFG research group, "Overlapping Spheres of Authority and Interface Conflicts in the Global Order" (OSAIC), focuses on the rise of interface conflicts within and across overlapping spheres of authority. The increased institutional production of norms in the international realm leads to both...

This article studies a conflict over two competing norms in which the actors demonstrated incompatible positions not through arguments, but through actions. During the SARS crisis, China and the World Health Organization (WHO) entered a norm conflict over the precedence of sovereignty or global...

Nach den Terroranschlägen am 11. September 2001 in New York ergriff der Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten Nationen Maßnahmen, die grundlegende Verfahrensrechte missachteten. Erst nach fast zehn Jahren wurde die Praxis schrittweise rechtsstaatlichen Prinzipien unterworfen. Dieser Beitrag analysiert...

Fragmentation, institutional overlaps, and norm collisions are often seen as fundamental problems for the global (legal) order. Supposedly, they incite conflict and disorder. However, some scholars have also emphasised functional and normative advantages of the resulting institutional pluralism....