New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 32, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Emma Klein & Emily Paddon Rhoads, Participation as Legitimation: The Rise of Participatory Policy Norms in the ICC and UN Peacekeeping
• Thomas Biersteker & Larissa van den Herik, Enhancing the Legitimacy of UN Security Council Sanctions by Strengthening Fair and Clear Procedures
• Special Forum on Climate Governance Innovation
• David Passarelli, Túlio Andrade, & Michael Franczak, The Way Forward for Climate Cooperation: Introduction to Global Governance Special Feature: COP30 and Reforming Global Climate Governance
• Simon Sharpe & Adam Day, Complexity as a Catalyst: Adaptive Global Governance in a Deeply Divided World
• Giovanna Marques Kuele & Michael Weisberg, The Politics of Global Climate Governance Reform
• Michael Franczak & Khadeeja Naseem, Beyond the Paris Agreement: Toward Adaptive and Inclusive Climate Governance

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 31, no. 4, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Max-Otto Baumann & Bernhard Reinsberg, Pathologies in the United Nations Development System The Role of Funding Structures
• Adam Kamradt-Scott, Inter-organizational Relations and Policy Coordination: The Quadripartite and Antimicrobial Resistance
• Fuzuo Wu, Failed Securitization of Climate Change on the Agenda of the UN Security Council: Time, Sovereignty and Institutions at Play
• Iver B. Neumann & Martin D. Eide, Beyond Actor Recognition: Peace and Reconciliation as Emergence of Global Governance
• Ana Izvorska, An Opportunity for the Humanitarian Reset: How Animal Welfare Actors Can Strengthen System Reform

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 31, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Lise M. Howard, The United Nations Security Council in Interstate War
• Owen Wong & Stéfanie von Hlatky, Little Victories and Big Hurdles: The State of Women, Peace and Security Research after 25 Years
• Roosa Lambin, Nicola Yeates, Sophie Mackinder, Chris Holden, Nabila Idris, & Carolyn Snell, Legitimacy in 21st-Century Polylateralism: The Case of Global Health Funds
• Yooneui Kim, Procedural Compliance with International Human Rights Institutions: The Impact of the Universal Periodic Review on Human Rights Treaty Ratification
• Abel Ezeoha & Chibuike Uche, Funding, Governance, and Control Contestations in a Multilateral Organizational Setting: A Case of the African Development Bank
• Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen & Arthur Lyon Dahl, Turning Words into Action: Designing Accountability Mechanisms with Impact for Multilateral Environmental Agreements

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 31, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Nicholas G. Studzinski, Randolph Kent, & David Korowicz, Towards the Governance of Global Systemic Risk: Reforming the Summit of the Future
• Daniele Archibugi, Marco Cellini, & Azzurra Malgieri, The Reform of the UN Security Council: What Are the Issues?
• Tuğba Bayar & Murat Bayar, Unilateral Withdrawals from Multilateral International Treaties, 1945–2024
• Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée, Quasi-public Partnerships: Multistakeholder Governance in an International Organization
• Antonia Zervaki, The Cultural Dimension of Sustaining Peace: What Role for UN Peace Operations?

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 31, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Tana Johnson, Revolutionary Aspects of Formal Inter-governmental Organizations
• Patrik Johansson, The UN Security Council and the Rejection of Draft Resolutions
• Andrew Harmer, Sustainably Financing the World Health Organization: A Narrative Literature Review
• Ali Kaif & Ubaid Sidique, Transnational Climate Change Governance in South Asia: Analyzing Effectiveness of Post-Paris Initiatives

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 30, nos. 3-4, July-December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Forum on Summit of the Future
• Maya Ungar, Relevance and Reform: The Crisis of Confidence in the United Nations
• Hylke Dijkstra, The UN Summit of the Future: Leadership, Layering, and the Limits of Liberal International Order
• Richard Ponzio & Nudhara Yusuf, The Summit of the Future: Past, Present, and a Future for All Generations
• Articles
• Nina Reiners & Sara Kahn-Nisser, A Voice or an Echo? Women in the UN Human Rights Expert Bodies
• Agnieszka Szpak, Cities’ International Law-Shaping or Making and the Normative Value of Its Effects
• The Global Forum
• Adekeye Adebajo, Noblesse Oblige: The Enduring Legacy of Boutros Boutros-Ghali
• ACUNS Lecture in Honour of Kofi Annan
• Volker Türk, Reclaiming the Right to Peace

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 30, no. 2, April-June 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Global Governance as a Discipline
• Peter Romaniuk, Alynna Lyon, Alistair Edgar, Kendall Stiles, & Kurt Mills, Multilateralism in a Time of Crisis: Editor’s Introduction to a Special Issue of Global Governance
• Lorraine Elliott, Human Security, Multilateralism, and Solidarity
• Richard Gowan, The Treatment of Civil Wars in a Fragmenting International Order
• Jorge Heine, Active Non-alignment and Global Governance: From Latin America to the Global South
• Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner, The Multilateral Foreign Policies of Rising States in the Global South: Conclusions of a Comparative Study
• Franz Baumann, Multilateral Climate Governance: Its Promise and Limits
• Kwesi Aning & Ila Axelrod, Resurgent Coup d’États, Democratic Reversals, and Geopolitical Shifts in Africa
• Joel Ng, The BRICS Plus Challenge and Emerging Hierarchical Multilateralism
• Henrik Breitenbauch, NATO as a Military OECD: International Security Governance in Strategic Competition
• Maya Ungar, Relevance and Reform: The United Nations Security Council of the Future
• Minh-Thu Pham, Toward a Multilateral System That Delivers

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 30, no. 1, January-March 2024) is out. Contents include:

• The Global Forum
• Tsutomu (Tom) Kono, The United Nations amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: Institutional Resilience and Adaptability, and Lessons Learned
• Articles
• Nir Hassid & Eviatar Matania, A Global Regime for Cybersecurity and the Obstacles to Future Progress
• Islam Jusufi, Hybridity and a Composite Regime in the Judiciary Governance of Albania: Subcontracting Justice to International Advice
• Aljaž Kunčič & Austin Hamilton, United Nations Development Analysis at the Country Level: A Toolkit for SDG Forecasting and Interlinkages with Human Rights and Vulnerable Groups Analysis
• William Lippert, Delegation to Treaty Bodies and International Organizations for Conventional Arms Control Agreements in Europe: A Sum Score Evaluation
• David Hagebölling, The Design of Informal Intergovernmental Organizations: An Anatomy of the G20
• Thu Thuy Nguyen, Shiho Kato, & Dai Yokomizo, Governance of Low-Skilled Labor Migration The Technical Intern Training Program between Vietnam and Japan as a Case Study

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 29, no. 4, October-December 2023) is out. Contents include:

• John W. Holmes Memorial Lecture
• Bintou Keita, A Counter-Case to Fallacies and “-isms”: The Conundrum of Protecting Civilians in a Complex Environment and an Accelerated Transition
• Articles
• Louise Olsson, Patty Chang & Angela Muvumba Sellström, Examining E10 Strategies and Decisions: Sweden and Women, Peace and Security in the UN Security Council
• John Karlsrud & Allard Duursma, Norm Fixation: The Role of Implementation Practices in the Development of the Protection of Civilians Norm
• Vesselin Popovski, The Right to International Solidarity
• Younes Ahouga, The International Organization for Migration as a Counterweight to States? The 2030 Agenda, the GCM, and the Strategic Vision of IOM
• Rafael Mesquita, The Road Most Traveled By: Three Hypotheses about Influential Norms at the United Nations General Assembly Identified by Main Path Analysis
• Melanie van Driel, Frank Biermann, Rakhyun E. Kim & Marjanneke J. Vijge, The UN Regional Commissions as Orchestrators for the Sustainable Development Goals

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 29, no. 3, July-September 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Cognitive Third Force: The Case for Building a Supranational Public Opinion to Enhance the UN’s Moral Influence
• Dennis Niemann, David Krogmann, & Kerstin Martens, Torn into the Abyss? How Subpopulations of International Organizations in Climate, Education, and Health Policy Evolve in Times of a Declining Liberal International Order
• Reem Alshamsi, The Role of Extrinsic Motivation in Securing Actors’ Compliance with the International Anti-Money Laundering/Counterterrorist Financing Regime
• Nicholas Frank, Explaining Innovation and Imitation in the RCEP
• Rebecca Barber, An Early Assessment of the General Assembly’s 2022 Veto Initiative
• Gianluigi Negro, China and the ITU: A History of Standards
• Jorge Antonio Pérez-Pineda, The Private Sector and the 2030 Agenda: Challenges following BAPA+40

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 29, no. 2, April-June 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The 75th Anniversary of UN Peacekeeping
• Alynna Lyon, Alistair Edgar, Kurt Mills, Peter Romaniuk, & Kendall Stiles, The 75th Anniversary of UN Peacekeeping: Introduction to a Special Issue of Global Governance
• Brian Drohan, Retaining Flexibility: Dag Hammarskjöld, the 1958 Summary Study, and the History of UN Peacekeeping
• Adekeye Adebajo, Blue Berets, Burning Brushfires: The History, Successes, and Failures of UN Peacekeeping
• Cedric de Coning, How Not to Do UN Peacekeeping: Avoid the Stabilization Dilemma with Principled and Adaptive Mandating and Leadership
• Audrey L. Comstock, In the Shadow of Peace: Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Accountability in UN Peacekeeping
• Karin Johansson & Anne-Kathrin Kreft, Sexual Violence and Peacekeeping
• Richard Ponzio & Muznah Siddiqui, Peacekeeping, Disarmament, and the New Agenda for Peace
• John Karlsrud, UN Peacekeeping Operations in a Multipolar Era
• Andrew E. Yaw Tchie, African-Led Peace Support Operations in a declining period of new UN Peacekeeping Operations
• A. Walter Dorn, Crucial Technologies for the Protection of Civilians by UN Peace Operations

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 29, no. 1, January-March 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Lise Grande, Protecting Civilians from Injury, Destruction, and Death during War and Conflict
• Julia Leib, Of Peacekeepers and Pandemics: How Covid-19 Changed Strategic Communication of the UN Mission in South Sudan
• Ricardo Martinez, City Governments as Political Actors of Global Governance: The (Winding) Road of UCLG Toward Multilateral Recognition
• Susan Park, The African Development Bank and the Accountability Policy Norm: Endogenous Change, Norm Conformance, and the Development Finance Regime Complex
• Zhongzhou Peng, A Partnership Centered on Norm Adoption: The EBRD-AIIB Collaboration on the Dushanbe-Uzbekistan Border Road Improvement Project

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 28, no. 4, October-December 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Helge Schumacher, Multiple Streams, Open Windows, and yet No Solution: How the Response to the Ebola Crisis Shaped the Discourse on Emergency Assistance under the Biological Weapons Convention
• Charles Roger, Jacint Jordana, Adam Holesch & Lewin Schmitt, Global Governance Research: Exploring Patterns of Growth, Diversity, and Inclusion
• Sara Hellmüller, Marie Lobjoy & Xiang-Yun Rosalind Tan, Beyond Generations: An Alternative Approach to Categorizing Peace Missions
• Bo Kyung Kim, Mutual Accountability in Fragile States: Seeking Strategic Responses through Partnership Platforms
• Luma Ramos & Kevin P. Gallagher, The IMF COVID-19 Surveillance Monitor
• Kathryn Chelminski, Liliana B. Andonova & Yixian Sun, Emergence and Structuring of the Clean Energy Regime Complex

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 28, no. 3, July-September 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Isis Gonsalves, Small, Young, and Female: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on the United Nations Security Council from the Perspective of the Political Coordinator
• Vanessa F. Newby, Offering the Carrot and Hiding the Stick? Conceptualizing Credibility in UN Peacekeeping
• Ali Balci & Talha İsmail Duman, Muslim Solidarity in the UN General Assembly: Evidence from Elections of Rotating Members to the Security Council
• Brooke Coe & Kilian Spandler, Beyond Effectiveness: The Political Functions of ASEAN’s Disaster Governance
• Max-Otto Baumann, Policy Advice in UN Development Work: High Expectations and Practical Constraints
• Hai Yang, Politicizing Global Governance Institutions in Times of Crisis: The Case of World Health Organization during the Coronavirus Pandemic
• Bernabé Malacalza & Debora Fagaburu, Empathy or Calculation? A Critical Analysis of Vaccination Geopolitics in Latin America

Klabbers: Virtue in Global Governance: Judgment and Discretion

Jan Klabbers (Univ. of Helsinki - Law) has published Virtue in Global Governance: Judgment and Discretion (Cambridge Univ. Press 2022). Here's the abstract:

Since rules - legal, ethical or otherwise - cannot determine their own application, they require persons of flesh and blood to interpret and apply them in concrete cases. Presidents and prime ministers, judges, prosecutors, mediators, leaders of international organizations, and even religious leaders and public intellectuals make decisions on how best to understand rules and how best to apply them. It stands to reason that their character traits influence the sort of decisions they take. This book provides the first systematic framework for discussing global governance in terms of the virtues, and illustrates it with a number of detailed examples of concrete decision-making in specific situations. Virtue in Global Governance combines insights from law, ethics, and global governance studies in developing a unique approach to global governance and international law.

Bexell, Jönsson, & Uhlin: Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance: Practices, Justifications, and Audiences

Magdalena Bexell (Lund Univ. - Political Science), Kristina Jönsson (Lund Univ. - Political Science), & Anders Uhlin (Lund Univ. - Political Science) have published Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance: Practices, Justifications, and Audiences (Oxford Univ. Press 2022). This is an open access book. Here's the abstract:

The legitimacy of global governance institutions is both contested and defended in contemporary global politics. Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance explores processes of legitimation and delegitimation of such institutions. How, why, and with what impact on audiences, are global governance institutions legitimated and delegitimated? The book develops a comprehensive theoretical framework for studying processes of (de)legitimation in governance beyond the state. It provides broad comparative analyses to uncover previously unexplored patterns of (de)legitimation processes. A diverse set of global and regional governmental and nongovernmental institutions in different policy fields are included. Variation across these institutions is explained with reference to institutional set-up, policy field characteristics, and broader social structures, as well as to the qualities of agents of (de)legitimation. The approach builds on a mixed-methods research design that uses quantitative and qualitative new empirical data. Three main interlinked elements of processes of legitimation and delegitimation are at the center of the analysis: the varied practices employed by different agents that may boost or challenge the legitimacy of institutions; the normative justifications that these agents draw on when engaging in legitimation and delegitimation practices; and the different audiences that may be impacted by legitimation and delegitimation. This results in a dynamic interplay between legitimation and delegitimation in contestation over the legitimacy of GGIs.

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 28, no. 2, April-June 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Andrea Ordóñez Llanos, Putting the “Common” in Our Common Agenda
• Kirsten Haack, Margaret P. Karns, & Jean-Pierre Murray, From Aspiration to Commitment: The UN’s “Long March” toward Gender Equality
• Thomas J. Biersteker, Rebecca Brubaker, & David Lanz, Exploring the Relationships between UN Sanctions and Mediation
• Zuzana Hudáková, “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick”: The Threat of Sanctions in the UN Mediation Process in Yemen
• Clara Portela & Jean-Louis Romanet Perroux, UN Security Council Sanctions and Mediation in Libya: Synergy or Obstruction?
• Francesco Giumelli & Annette Weber, UN Sanctions as Leverage in Mediation Processes? An Anatomy of Missed Opportunities in South Sudan
• Joana Amaral, UN Sanctions and Mediation in Sierra Leone: Opportunities and Pitfalls When Managing Veto Players

Sun: Certifying China: The Rise and Limits of Transnational Sustainability Governance in Emerging Economies

Yixian Sun (Univ. of Bath) has published Certifying China: The Rise and Limits of Transnational Sustainability Governance in Emerging Economies (MIT Press 2022). Here's the abstract:

China has long prioritized economic growth over environmental protection. But in recent years, the country has become a global leader in the fight to save the planet by promoting clean energy, cutting air and water pollution, and developing a system of green finance. In Certifying China, Yixian Sun explores the potential and limits of transnational eco-certification in moving the world's most populous country toward sustainable consumption and production. He identifies the forces that drive companies from three sectors—seafood, palm oil, and tea—to embrace eco-certification. The success of eco-certification, he says, will depend on the extent to which it wins the support of domestic actors in fast-growing emerging economies.

The assumption of eco-certification is that demand along the supply chain can drive businesses to adopt good practices for social, environmental, and economic sustainability by specifying rules for production, third-party verification, and product labeling. Through case studies drawn from extensive fieldwork and mixed methods, Sun traces the processes by which certification programs originating from the Global North were introduced in China and gradually gained traction. He finds that the rise of eco-certification in the Chinese market is mainly driven by state actors, including government-sponsored industry associations, who seek benefits of transnational governance for their own development goals. The book challenges the conventional wisdom that the Chinese state has little interest in supporting transnational governance, offering novel insights into the interaction between state and non-state actors in earth system governance in emerging economies.

Martin: The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance

Jamie Martin (Georgetown Univ. - History) has published The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance (Harvard Univ. Press 2022). Here's the abstract:

International economic institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank exert incredible influence over the domestic policies of many states. These institutions date from the end of World War II and amassed power during the neoliberal era of the late twentieth century. But as Jamie Martin shows, if we want to understand their deeper origins and the ideas and dynamics that shaped their controversial powers, we must turn back to the explosive political struggles that attended the birth of global economic governance in the early twentieth century.

The Meddlers tells the story of the first international institutions to govern the world economy, including the League of Nations and Bank for International Settlements, created after World War I. These institutions endowed civil servants, bankers, and colonial authorities from Europe and the United States with extraordinary powers: to enforce austerity, coordinate the policies of independent central banks, oversee development programs, and regulate commodity prices. In a highly unequal world, they faced a new political challenge: was it possible to reach into sovereign states and empires to intervene in domestic economic policies without generating a backlash?

Martin follows the intense political conflicts provoked by the earliest international efforts to govern capitalism—from Weimar Germany to the Balkans, Nationalist China to colonial Malaya, and the Chilean desert to Wall Street. The Meddlers shows how the fraught problems of sovereignty and democracy posed by institutions like the IMF are not unique to late twentieth-century globalization, but instead first emerged during an earlier period of imperial competition, world war, and economic crisis.

Pauwelyn, Maggetti, Büthe, & Berman: Rethinking Participation in Global Governance: Voice and Influence after Stakeholder Reforms in Global Finance and Health

Joost Pauwelyn (Graduate Institute), Martino Maggetti (Univ. of Lausanne), Tim Büthe (Technical Univ. of Munich), & Ayelet Berman (National Univ. of Singapore) have published Rethinking Participation in Global Governance: Voice and Influence after Stakeholder Reforms in Global Finance and Health (Oxford Univ. Press 2022). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

International organizations and other global governance bodies often make rules and decisions without input from many of the individuals, groups, firms, and governments that are affected by them. The standards of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, for instance, developed by a small number of states, govern financial markets and the safety of bank deposits in over a hundred jurisdictions. Historically, the interests of developing countries, as well as non-commercial and diffuse interests within countries, have been excluded or disregarded in global governance. Scholars and practitioners have criticised this democratic deficit and called for greater participation of such marginalized stakeholders. Against this background, international institutions have introduced a variety of reforms with the goal of increasing and facilitating the participation of these excluded stakeholders.

This book brings together an expert group of scholars and practitioners to investigate the consequences of stakeholder participation reforms in the global governance of health and finance: What reforms have been introduced? Have these reforms given previously marginalized stakeholders a voice in global governance bodies? What effect have these reforms had on the legitimacy and effectiveness of global governance? To answer these questions, the book examines treaty-based intergovernmental organizations alongside newer forms of global governance such as trans-governmental regulatory networks, multi-stakeholder partnerships, and private standard setting bodies. Through a series of paired comparative analyses, the book provides insights into the experiences of large emerging and smaller or lower income developing countries (Brazil v. Argentina, China v. Vietnam, India v. the Philippines) in a diverse set of organizations, including the World Bank and the World Health Organization, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the International Accounting Standards Board, Codex Alimentarius Commission and more.