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Politicization and Challengers of Global Governance

SCRIPTS - Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” - The Liberal Script in Asia (OUP)
Head
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Prof. Dr. Tobias Berger
Duration: ongoing since 01.04.2021
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) (01.04.2021-31.03.2024) / WZB (since 01.04.2024)
SCRIPTS - Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” - Analysis of Support and Resistance to the Liberal Script based on a Survey (PALS)
Head
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Dr. Heiko Giebler
Lukas Antoine, Rasmus Ollroge
Duration: since 2021
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) / WZB
SCRIPTS - Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” - The Liberal Truth Regime
Head
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Duration: ongoing since 2021
Funding: WZB
SCRIPTS - Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” - Rise of (Populist) Authoritarianism
Head
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer
Duration: since 2021
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) / WZB
SCRIPTS - Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” - Towards a Typology of Contestations
Head
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Prof. Dr. Stefan Gosepath
Staff
Nieves Fernández Rodríguez, Lena Röllicke, Maximilian Weckemann
Duration: 01.09.2019-31.12.2024
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) (01.09.2019-14.10.2023) / WZB (15.10.2023-31.12.2024)
SCRIPTS - Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script“ - Theory Network
Head
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel
Staff
Dr. Johannes Gerschewski
Duration: 01.01.2019-31.12.2025
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Societal politicization of international institutions in longitudinal and cross-sectional perspective
Staff
Prof. Dr. Christian Rauh, Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Duration: ongoing since 2012
Funding: WZB
The Politicization of European Integration
Staff
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Prof. Dr. Christian Rauh, Prof. Dr. Pieter de Wilde
Duration: ongoing since 2011
Funding: WZB

Geopolitical and Systemic Conflicts in Global Governance

China’s Bid for Hegemony? China’s New Multilateral Institutions and Social Purpose in Global Governance
Head
Dr. Matthew D. Stephen
Duration: 01.04.2022–31.03.2027
Funding: Heisenberg Programme of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
The International Diffusion of Democratic Backsliding
Head
Dr. Alexander Schmotz
Staff
Lisa-Marie Selvik, Ph.D.
Duration: 01.04.2024-31.03.2026
Funding: Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Completed Research Projects

International Authority Database
Staff
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Dr. Alexandros Tokhi, İrem Tuncer-Ebetürk, Ph.D., Dr. Martin Binder
Duration: 01.04.2012 - 01.07.2021
Funding: Leibniz Association (SAW Senate Competition Committee; 01.04.2012−31.03.2016); WZB (since 01.04.2016)
Global Governance and the European Union: Future Trends and Scenarios (GLOBE)
Staff
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Dr. Alexandros Tokhi, İrem Tuncer-Ebetürk, Ph.D.
Duration: 01.02.2020–31.01.2023
Funding: European Commission, Horizon 2020
Overlapping Spheres of Authority and Interface Conflicts in the Global Order (OSAIC)
Head
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Prof. Dr. Anna Holzscheiter
Staff
Prof. Dr. Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, Julia Fuß, Dr. Sassan Gholiagha, Andrés Saravia
Duration: 01.10.2011–31.12.2021
Funding: Ernst Cassirer Foundation for Scientific Research, Hamburg (01.10.2011–31.07.2013); WZB (01.08.2013–31.05.2017); DFG German Research Foundation (01.06.2017–31.05.2020)
Kolleg-Forschergruppe (Research Group) 'The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?'
Staff
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Dr. Alexandros Tokhi, Dr. Matthew D. Stephen, Prof. Dr. Andrea Liese, Prof. Dr. Georg Nolte
Duration: 2015–2019
Funding: DFG (German Research Foundation)
Fragmentation and Complexity in Global Governance (FCGG)
Staff
Dr. Benjamin Faude, Dr. Lea Wisken
Duration: 2015–2019
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
International Institutions in Hard Times. A Theory of Global Governance
Staff
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Duration: 2012–2019
Funding: WZB
Power Shifts, International Institutions and Inter-Institutional Strategies
Staff
Dr. Benjamin Faude, Dr. Michal Parízek, Dr. Matthew D. Stephen, Dr. Lea Wisken
Duration: 2014–2018
Funding: WZB
Contested World Orders
Staff
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Dr. Martin Binder, Dr. Matthew D. Stephen, Dr. Alexandros Tokhi
Prof. Dr. Detlef Nolte (GIGA), Dr. Miriam Prys (GIGA), Prof. Dr. Harald Müller (PRIF), Prof. Dr. Klaus Dieter Wolf (PRIF)
Duration: ongoing since 2012
Funding: Leibniz Association (SAW Senate Competition Committee; 04.2012−03.2016); WZB (since 04.2016)
The Political Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism
Head
Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Staff
Prof. Dr. Pieter de Wilde, Dr. Onawa Promise Lacewell, Prof. Oliver Strijbis, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weßels, Prof. Dr. Céline Teney, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
Duration: 2011–2017
Parliamentary Democracy in Europe (PADEMIA)
Staff
Prof. Dr. Pieter de Wilde
Duration: 2014–2016
Funding: European Commission
Rethinking Legitimacy and International Institutions
Staff
Dr. Matthew D. Stephen
Duration: 2013–2015
From Competition to Division of Labor: Complexity and Dynamics in the Interplay of International Institutions
Staff
Dr. Benjamin Faude
Duration: 2013–2015
Funding: WZB
Rising Powers in International Institutions
Staff
Dr. Martin Binder, Autumn Lockwood Payton, Ph.D.
Duration: 2012–2015
Funding: WZB
International organizations and the protection of fundamental rights of individuals
Staff
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Prof. Dr. Monika Heupel, Gisela Hirschmann, Dr. Theresa Reinold
Duration: 2010–2015
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
The Legitimacy of the UN Security Council
Staff
Dr. Martin Binder, Prof. Dr. Monika Heupel
Duration: 2010–2015
Funding: WZB
Rule of Law Promotion and Legalization beyond the Nation-State
Staff
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Dr. Theresa Reinold
Duration: 2011–2014
Funding: Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law (HiiL)
Asymmetric Negotiations in International Institutions
Staff
Autumn Lockwood Payton, Ph.D.
Duration: 2011–2014
Funding: WZB
Decision Making in International Organizations: The Selection and Design of Formal and Informal Decision Rules in International Institutions
Staff
Autumn Lockwood Payton, Ph.D.
Duration: 2011–2014
Funding: WZB
Online Euroscepticism
Staff
Prof. Dr. Pieter de Wilde
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joerg Trenz (ARENA, University of Oslo and Copenhagen University), Dr. Asimina Michailidou (ARENA, University of Oslo)
Duration: 2009–2014
Funding: 6th EU Framework Program
Climate Change Policy and Equity (Global Justice) in a Cross-Cultural Perspective: The Role of Moral Capacities in Global Negotiations and Political Responses of Industrial Countries to Climate Change
Staff
PD Dr. Helmut Weidner
Duration: 2005–2013
Funding: WZB
Multistakeholder Cooperation in Sustainable Development Policy – With Special Focus on Civil Society Groups and the Mining Sector
Staff
PD Dr. Helmut Weidner
Duration: 2005–2013
Funding: WZB
Authority beyond states: Legal, political and philosophical perspectives on international institutions
Staff
Dr. Martin Binder
Birgit Schlütter (Norwegian Center for Human Rights)
Duration: 2011–2012
Funding: DAAD
Rule of law promotion through international organizations and NGOs
Staff
Prof. Dr. Monika Heupel
Duration: 2009–2012
Funding: WZB and HiiL
Path Dependence and Change in International Governance Institutions
Staff
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Prof. Lora Anne Viola, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Thomas Rixen
Duration: 2008–2012
Funding: WZB
Supranationalization and Politicization
Staff
Prof. Dr. Thomas Rixen
Duration: 2008–2012
Funding: WZB
The Denationalization of Problem Perceptions and the Assignment of Responsibility to Political Institutions
Staff
Dr. Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weßels, Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Duration: 2007–2012
Funding: WZB
Principles of a Just International Tax Regime
Staff
Prof. Dr. Thomas Rixen
Duration: 2008–2011
Funding: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), WZB, Université de Montréal
Sovereign Inequality and the Politics of Membership in the International System
Staff
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Prof. Lora Anne Viola, Ph.D.
Duration: 2006–2011
Funding: WZB
The Institutional (Non-)Change in International Taxation
Staff
Prof. Dr. Thomas Rixen
Duration: 2007–2010
Funding: WZB
Legalization Beyond the Nation State
Staff
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Prof. Dr. Gunnar Folke Schuppert, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel
Duration: 2004–2010
Funding: WZB
The Politicization of United Nations Conferences and Institutional Change
Staff
Dr. Kathrin Böhling
Duration: 01.09.2008–31.07.2009
Funding: WZB
The Politicization of International Institutions (Book Project)
Staff
Dr. Martin Binder, Dr. Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt, Prof. Dr. Thomas Rixen, PD Dr. Helmut Weidner, Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Duration: 2008–2009
Funding: WZB
The Selectivity of Humanitarian Interventions
Staff
Dr. Martin Binder
Duration: 2005–2009
Funding: WZB
Public Discourse and Understanding in Light of Humanitarian Crises
Staff
Dr. Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt
Duration: 2005–2009
Funding: WZB
“Private” Engagement and Public Interest in Transnational Contexts — The “World Citizen” as a Political Actor?
Staff
Prof. Dr. Tine Stein
Duration: 01.10.2007–30.09.2008
Funding: WZB
Regulation of the Internet
Staff
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann, Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer
Rolf Bendrath, Volker Leib, Peter Mayer
Duration: 2005–2008
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) and WZB
Der Verlust der Eindeutigkeit – Annäherung an Individuum und Gesellschaft
Staff
Dr. Susanne Fuchs
Duration: 01.12.2006–31.07.2007
Funding: WZB
Welfare State Formation in the Enlarged European Union – Patterns of Reform in the Post-Communist New Member States
Staff
Dr. Susanne Fuchs
Duration: 2006–2007
Funding: WZB
Organizing Peacebuilding – An Investigation of Interorganizational Coordination in International Post Conflict Reconstruction Efforts
Staff
Dr. Anna Herrhausen
Duration: 2006–2007
Funding: self-financed
Weltgesellschaft und Modernisierung
Staff
Dr. Susanne Fuchs
Duration: 2006–2007
Funding: WZB
Ein Trend zu transnationaler Solidarität? Die Entwicklung des Spendenaufkommens in der Not und Entwicklungshilfe
Staff
Dr. Katrin Radtke
Duration: 2005–2007
Funding: WZB