Wednesday, December 24, 2025

New Issue: Review of International Organizations

The latest issue of the Review of International Organizations (Vol. 20, no. 4, December 2025) is out. Contents include:
  • Lauren Ferry & Cleo O’Brien-Udry, The possibilities and limits of international status: Evidence from foreign aid and public opinion
  • Andreas Kern, Bernhard Reinsberg, & Claire Lee, The unintended consequences of IMF programs: Women left behind in the labor market
  • Jieun Lee, How foreign multinationals benefit from acquiring domestic firms with political experience
  • Michal Parizek, Less in the West: The tangibility of international organizations and their media visibility around the world
  • Ezgi Yildiz & Umut Yüksel, The defocalizing effect of international courts: Evidence from maritime delimitation practices
  • Miles D. Williams, Elusive collaboration? The determinants of lead donorship in international development
  • Hylke Dijkstra & Farsan Ghassim, Are authoritative international organizations challenged more? A recurrent event analysis of member state criticisms and withdrawals
  • Ryan Powers, Is context pretext? Institutionalized commitments and the situational politics of foreign economic policy
  • Andreas Johannes Ullmann, Reconsidering the costs of commitment: Learning and state acceptance of the UN human rights treaties’ individual complaint procedures
  • Stephanie J. Rickard, International negotiations over the global commons
  • Valerio Vignoli & Michal Onderco, Leader ideology and state commitment to multilateral treaties
  • Sandra Destradi & Johannes Vüllers, Populism and the liberal international order: An analysis of UN voting patterns
  • Benjamin Daßler, Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, & Andreas Kruck, How negative institutional power moderates contestation: Explaining dissatisfied powers’ strategies towards international institutions
  • Mareike Kleine & Samuel Huntington, Negotiating with your mouth full: Intergovernmental negotiations between transparency and confidentiality
  • Shing-hon Lam & Courtney J. Fung, Mapping China’s influence at the United Nations
  • Vegard Tørstad & Vegard Wiborg, Commitment ambiguity and ambition in climate pledges
  • Krzysztof Pelc, Institutional innovation in response to backlash: How members are circumventing the WTO impasse
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