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The GGRCC Talk Series for Fall 2026 has four online talks. Registration is open on the GGC events page.
Rosemary Foot, "Bounded Ambition: China as a Multilateral Actor in World Politics"
đź•” 17:00 - 18:00 CEST (16:00 BST, 11:00 EDT, 8:00 PDT)
Rosemary Foot (University of Oxford) presents her work with Xueying Zhang on why and how China engages with multilateral international organizations. The talk compares two eras of Chinese engagement and examines the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the BRICS, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It asks how far this engagement changes the norms of the global order. Full abstract and registration
Christina Schneider, "Cooperation against Citizens: Authoritarian International Organizations and Transnational Repression"
đź•” 17:00 - 18:00 CET (16:00 GMT, 11:00 EST, 8:00 PST)
Christina Schneider (University of California, San Diego) examines how authoritarian regimes use regional international organizations to protect their rule. With new cross-national data, the talk shows that regimes that share more policing and counterterrorism organizations cooperate more to surveil, detain, and return dissidents abroad. Full abstract and registration
Vincent Pouliot, "The Global Governance Workforce: Shifting Politics of International Organizations"
đź•” 17:00 - 18:00 CET (16:00 GMT, 11:00 EST, 8:00 PST)
Vincent Pouliot (Université de Montréal) presents a book manuscript on the people who do the work of global governance. With a focus on the United Nations, the talk describes the decrease in continuing staff and the increase in contract and outsourced personnel. It then discusses the effects on workers, on international organizations, and on global governance. Full abstract and registration
James Vreeland, "Strategic Evaluations as Quiet Accommodation: World Bank Responses to the Founding of China's AIIB"
đź•” 17:00 - 18:00 CET (16:00 GMT, 11:00 EST, 8:00 PST)
James Vreeland (Princeton University) examines how the World Bank responds to competition from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The paper finds that World Bank projects for the founding members of the AIIB get higher self-assessed evaluations after these countries join the AIIB. The talk interprets this pattern as a quiet method to keep these countries engaged. Full abstract and registration
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Getting to Know the Global Governance Research Centre Consortium
📍 Geneva, Switzerland; Québec City, Canada; Stockholm, Sweden; Florence, Italy; Princeton, New Jersey; San Diego, California
Organized by James Hollway, this soft launch event is for members of the six partner institutions to discover and learn about the consortium and its partners.
Workshop on Hybrid Organizations in Global Governance
📍 Québec City, Canada
Organized by Jean-Frédéric Morin and Guillaume Beaumier, this workshop brings together around 25 participants to discuss hybrid organizations in global governance - organizations that are neither pure IGOs nor conventional private actors, such as IUCN, the Red Cross, ICANN, or the World Anti-doping Agency. Participants will discuss short research notes and collectively reflect on how to conceptualize these hybrid forms and study what they do in global governance. More information
Third Annual Politics of Sovereign Finance Conference
đź“Ť 1333 New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, DC
This conference, which takes place under Chatham House rules, brings together academics, policymakers and private sector participants to consider contemporary issues in the realm of sovereign finance. We focus especially on the politics — domestic and international — related to climate finance, international financial institutions, debt restructuring, transparency, and credit ratings. We seek to combine discussions of academic research with insights from practitioners. More information
Inken von Borzyskowski, "Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change"
đź“Ť Geneva, Switzerland
Why do states exit international organizations (IOs)? How often does exit from IOs – including voluntary withdrawal and forced suspension – occur? What are the effects of leaving IOs for the exiting state? Despite the importance of membership in IOs, a broader understanding of exit across states, organizations, and time has been limited. Inken von Borzyskowski will present her new book, Exit from International Organizations (Cambridge University Press, 2025), co-authored with Felicity Vabulas, that addresses these lacunae through a theoretically grounded and empirically systematic study of IO exit. The authors argue that there is a common logic to IO exit which helps explain both its causes and consequences. By examining IO exit across 198 states, 534 IOs, and over a hundred years of history, they show that exit is driven by states' dissatisfaction, preference divergence, and is a strategy to negotiate institutional change. The book also demonstrates that exit is costly because it has reputational consequences for leaving states and significantly affects other forms of international cooperation. More information