IR scholars have paid significant attention to the question of why states act through international organizations (IOs). However, they have been less interested in detailing how states do it. The reason, I argue, is the assumption that action is explained once an actor's motives to engage in it...

In recent years, concerns over the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) have mounted. In response, international organizations (IOs) have begun to translate the emerging consensus on the need for ethical AI into concrete international rules and standards. While the path toward effective...

Conservative NGOs contesting women's rights in the United Nations are on the rise, and their activity is increasingly described as an antifeminist backlash. This article focuses a new theoretical lens on this development: socialization. It argues that conservative NGOs' socialization into...

Antifeminist mobilisation is growing in the United Nations. It is led by a coalition of certain post-Soviet, Catholic, and Islamic states; the United States; the Vatican; conservative nongovernmental organisations, occasionally joined by the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation, the League of...

The paper seeks to locate the Western Balkans in the current age of anxiety. By using the concept of ontological security as its overarching theoretical frame, the paper first develops a concept of anxiety dilemma. The anxiety dilemma refers to a situation in which a social order that provides...

Democracies are under attack from various sides. In recent years AI-powered techniques such as profiling, targeting, election manipulation, and massive disinformation campaigns via social bots and troll farms challenge the very foundations of democratic systems. Against this background, demands...

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the subsequent war between two of its core participating states, the OSCE seems highly fragile, and many doubt it will survive. However, this paradigm needs to follow an assessment of the OSCE's resilience in times of crisis, grounded in...