Max Lesch

Thank you, Adam! Will do :)

Hun Joon Kim (Korea University) and I are co-editing a special of Journal of Contemporary East Asian Studies on "#NormContestation and the Politics of #TransitionalJustice in East and Southeast Asia." Please send us your 250-word abstract by Oct 15. CfP below 👇https://www.adamkochanski.com/jceas-cfp

Thank you, Mathis!

This week, I’ve started a new position as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. I’m excited to open this new chapter at @unileiden.bsky.social !

Right(s) practice: normative competence negotiation in the struggles over human rights protection in AMISOM - Journal of International Relations and Development This article examines the interplay of power and norm contestation in the AU–EU strategic partnership, focusing on struggles over human rights protection in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISO...

📣NEW: "Right(s) practice: normative competence negotiation in the struggles over human rights protection in AMISOM" by our colleague @chiara-defranco.bsky.social & Linnéa Gelot just published in Journal of International Relations and Development
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very much looking forward to #EISAPEC25 and our standing section ‘International Practices’ organized together with @profbode.bsky.social
Come and join us for nine wonderful panels and roundtables—all happening at Palazzo Hercolani! 🏛️👇

@europeanisa.bsky.social

Two PhD fellow positions in ERC-project “Private Law Firms as Transnational Advocates (PROBONO)"  (283702) | University of Oslo Job title: Two PhD fellow positions in ERC-project “Private Law Firms as Transnational Advocates (PROBONO)"  (283702), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2025

This looks like a great opportunity to work with @ninareiners.bsky.social 🎓. Being a PhD student at UiO (at least in my experience...so far!) equals an exceptional work/life balance, interesting work, committed colleagues, and snow & lakes nearby -- a pretty unique balance in academia these days.

Very happy to have had the opportunity to write this short blog about my book 📖

Can IOs govern without proper mandates and policies? The answer is yes! Check it out below 👇🏽

The workshop is over, everyone is relieved and hopefully regenerated. It was so nice to see everyone doing a great job, with so many interesting projects! It was a pleasure and privilege to host you and learn from all of you! And here are some more pics

Meeting friends and heroes at the EUI workshop “Shifting Powers, Shifting Roles:
The Present and Future of International Institutions”.

Brilliant keynote discussions by @monicahakimi.bsky.social, Tony Anghie, @sarahnou.bsky.social.

Also a great setting to discuss de-dollarisation and int’l law!

Keynote speech by Prof Antony Anghie

Kudos to @jemtseva.bsky.social, @maxlesch.bsky.social and others at @eui-eu.bsky.social for organizing this fantastic interdisciplinary workshop on the present and future of int’l institutions & bringing together critical legal and IR scholars.

Looking forward to #ESIL2025 in ✨Berlin✨ and to chairing Agora 5: Actors of Reconstruction!

11-13 September 2025
www.esil2025.de

✨ Finally out - thanks to Maryam and Sigrid! Great pleasure to be part of this collaborative project and see the edited volume "A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition" available open access ✨

My chapter: academic.oup.com/book/59913/c...

Ways of Seeing International Organisations Cambridge Core - Public International Law - Ways of Seeing International Organisations

Great to see this volume out! Grateful to have contributed a chapter, and many thanks to the editors Negar Mansouri & Daniel R. Quiroga Villamarin @drqv.bsky.social for bringing it all together.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

Thrilled to announce that @gadinsky.bsky.social and I have an article out that deals with all your questions about normativity, practices, ordering, and global protest (though it may not answer them all). We hope you'll find it interesting, so let us know what you think! 👇

Very happy to see this published 😁 why do we need to think about the normative element in practices? Sounds like a difficult question, but it is highly relevant for all IR scholars 💥 @holgerniemann.bsky.social and I show how we can explore the normativity in practices like protesting. Open access!

Introducing Organizational (Dis)Entanglements: How Scholarship on Regime Complexity and Power Dynamics Helps Make Sense of International Order-Making Abstract. Scholars and pundits focusing on the changing international order and its possible fragmentation often pay little attention to the manifold relat

If you are interested in how the research programs on power transition, regime complexity & international order can speak to one another, then this forum could be of interest to you. Great contributions from Laura Gómez-Mera, @tgutner.bsky.social, Matias Margulis ..

academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

Localization in World Politics: Bridging Theory and Practice Abstract. This Introduction and Special Forum highlight the importance of localization for the study of world politics, both as a theoretical concept in in

In this new article 📖 ✍️, @adamkochanski.bsky.social, Jennifer Welsh, and I talk ALL about localization, and kick off the Localization in World Politics Special Forum! Dive in open access @gsqjournal.bsky.social #OxfordUniversityPress @isanet.bsky.social 1/

doi.org/10.1093/isag...

With @marylou-h.bsky.social and @aobendiek.bsky.social, we tried to read as much as possible on « fields » in international political sociology. Here’s our synthesis, along with several other contributions collected by Stacie Goddard, George Lawson and OJ Sending

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Here's a summary of our book, "United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism" (Oxford University Press, 2025), which we published last month with stellar colleagues Sarah von Billerbeck, @oisintansey.bsky.social & @birtegippert.bsky.social!

Norms, Practices, and Social Change in Global Politics Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Norms, Practices, and Social Change in Global Politics

Pleased to share a new #OpenAccess CUP Element w @stevenbernstein.bsky.social & Marion Laurence! We engage recent norm+practice lit to offer an account of change+continuity in global politics. We hope it appeals to students & scholars of norms, practice, governance, and more!

Link: cup.org/4iYggy0

Thank you 🙏🏼

Thank you, Julia :)

International Norm Disputes: The Link between Contestation and Norm Robustness Abstract. This book is an in-depth comparative study about when and why international norms decline when they are contested. It presents central findings o

📚 And our book “International Norm Disputes”, co-authored with Lisbeth Zimmermann, @ndeitelhoff.bsky.social, Antonio Arcudi, and @antonpeez.bsky.social, received an Honourable Mention as runner-up for the Best Book Award, also from the Int'l Law Section. Read it here: academic.oup.com/book/46746

I missed #ISA2025, but I’m very happy that these two awards still made their way to Florence ✨

My paper on the politics of UN Security Council procedure and Mexico’s resistance against expansive self-defence claims in Article 51 letters won the Best Paper Award from the International Law Section!

My latest article on my current research project on UN special rapporteurs is finally out with @risjnl.bsky.social!

I develop the notion of the plural professional, or actors who practice several professions at the same time & not necessarily harmoniously.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I contributed a brief chapter on 𝗖𝘆𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺, which was a lot of fun to write.

You can find my chapter here (let me know if you don’t have access…): www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

Beate Jahn & Sebastian Schindler have compiled a fantastic “Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations." What makes it special is that it not only covers well-known IR concepts but also many less-established ones—such as art, failure, friendship, or post-truth. A great resource! 🙏
lmy.de/mjCbh

125: Norms International norms are central to the fabric of virtually every issue area in world politics and a key concept in many theories of International Relations. Norms are intersubjective reference points ...

I've written a short entry on 'Norms' for the Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations, brilliantly edited by Beate Jahn and Sebastian Schindler. Check out the 179 (!) entries covering a lot of ground - from academic freedom to world economy.

doi.org/10.4337/9781...

🏆 I feel deeply honored to receive the Chadwick Alger Prize for the best book on multilateral cooperation and international organization for "Global Governance on the Ground".

Have a look at the book here academic.oup.com/book/59022 and let me know if you can't access it.