The Review of International Organizations

2006 - 2025

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Volume 20, issue 1, 2025

Why hide? Africa’s unreported debt to China pp. 1-32

Kathleen J. Brown

A paradox of openness: Democracies, financial integration & crisis pp. 33-58

Devin Case-Ruchala

Sharing rivals, sending weapons: Rivalry and cooperation in the international arms trade, 1920–1939 pp. 59-85

Marius Mehrl, Daniel Seussler and Paul W. Thurner

Empowering your victims: Why repressive regimes allow individual petitions in international organizations pp. 87-123

Rachel J. Schoner

Trojan horses in liberal international organizations? How democratic backsliders undermine the UNHRC pp. 125-156

Anna M. Meyerrose and Irfan Nooruddin

Building bridges or digging the trench? International organizations, social media, and polarized fragmentation pp. 157-187

Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt

Governments as borrowers and regulators pp. 189-218

Timm Betz and Amy Pond

Lisa Dellmuth and Jonas Tallberg. 2023. Legitimacy Politics: Elite Communication and Public Opinion in Global Governance. (New York: Cambridge University Press) pp. 219-224

Tana Johnson and Tatiana Cruz

Kseniya Oksamytna. 2023. Advocacy and Change in International Organizations: Communication, Protection, and Reconstruction in UN Peacekeeping. (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 225-230

Ben Christian

Volume 19, issue 4, 2024

The life cycle of international cooperation: Introduction to the special issue pp. 641-664

Julia Gray

Economic crises and the survival of international organizations pp. 665-690

Yoram Z. Haftel and Bar Nadel

To reform or to replace? Succession as a mechanism of institutional change in intergovernmental organisations pp. 691-719

Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and Daniel Verdier

Leaders in the United Nations General Assembly: Revitalization or politicization? pp. 721-752

Alexander Baturo and Julia Gray

Expanding or defending legitimacy? Why international organizations intensify self-legitimation pp. 753-784

Henning Schmidtke and Tobias Lenz

Treaty withdrawal and the development of international law pp. 785-808

Averell Schmidt

Public support for withdrawal from international organizations: Experimental evidence from the US pp. 809-845

Inken Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas

Volume 19, issue 3, 2024

The power of the “weak” and international organizations pp. 385-409

Duncan Snidal, Thomas Hale, Emily Jones, Claas Mertens and Karolina Milewicz

The power of having powerful friends: Evidence from a new dataset of IMF negotiating missions, 1985-2020 pp. 411-442

Lauren L. Ferry and Alexandra O. Zeitz

Empowering to constrain: Procedural checks in international organizations pp. 443-468

Katherine M. Beall

Weapons of the weak state: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding pp. 469-513

Susanna P. Campbell and Aila M. Matanock

Your silence speaks volumes: Weak states and strategic absence in the UN General Assembly pp. 515-544

Julia C. Morse and Bridget Coggins

Re-contracting intergovernmental organizations: Membership change and the creation of linked intergovernmental organizations pp. 545-577

Andrew Lugg

The sources of influence in multilateral diplomacy: Replaceability and intergovernmental networks in international organizations pp. 579-610

Michael W. Manulak

The only living guerrillero in New York: Cuba and the brokerage power of a resilient revisionist state pp. 611-639

Rafael Mesquita

Volume 19, issue 2, 2024

Migration and development finance: A survey experiment on diaspora bonds pp. 185-215

Lindsay R. Dolan and Alexandra O. Zeitz

Renegotiating in good faith: How international treaty revisions can deepen cooperation pp. 217-241

Matthew A. Castle

Undermining U.S. reputation: Chinese vaccines and aid and the alternative provision of public goods during COVID-19 pp. 243-268

Francisco Urdinez

Cooperation between international organizations: Demand, supply, and restraint pp. 269-305

Diana Panke and Sören Stapel

Building strong executives and weak institutions: How European integration contributes to democratic backsliding pp. 307-343

Anna M. Meyerrose

Soft governance against superbugs: How effective is the international regime on antimicrobial resistance? pp. 345-374

Mirko Heinzel and Mathias Koenig-Archibugi

Ronny Patz and Klaus H. Goetz. 2019. Managing Money and Discord in the UN: Budgeting and Bureaucracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 375-379

Sebastian Haug

Erin R. Graham. 2023. Transforming International Institutions. How Money Quietly Sidelined Multilateralism at the United Nations. (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 381-384

Ronny Patz

Volume 19, issue 1, 2024

The politics of international testing pp. 1-31

Rie Kijima and Phillip Y. Lipscy

Environmental agreements as clubs: Evidence from a new dataset of trade provisions pp. 33-62

Jean-Frédéric Morin, Clara Brandi and Jakob Schwab

Public preferences for international law compliance: Respecting legal obligations or conforming to common practices? pp. 63-93

Saki Kuzushima, Kenneth Mori McElwain and Yuki Shiraito

The comparative constitutional compliance database pp. 95-115

Jerg Gutmann, Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska and Stefan Voigt

Introducing the Intergovernmental Policy Output Dataset (IPOD) pp. 117-146

Magnus Lundgren, Theresa Squatrito, Thomas Sommerer and Jonas Tallberg

Migration governance through trade agreements: insights from the MITA dataset pp. 147-173

Sandra Lavenex, Philipp Lutz and Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik

Correction to: Migration governance through trade agreements: insights from the MITA dataset pp. 175-175

Sandra Lavenex, Philipp Lutz and Paula Hoffmeyer‑Zlotnik

Rohan Mukherjee. 2022. Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp. 177-180

Jonathan M. DiCicco

Christina L. Davis. 2023. Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations. (Princeton: Princeton University Press) pp. 181-184

Randall W. Stone

Volume 18, issue 4, 2023

International rankings and public opinion: Compliance, dismissal, or backlash? pp. 607-629

Asif Efrat and Omer Yair

Discovering cooperation: Endogenous change in international organizations pp. 631-666

Tobias Lenz, Besir Ceka, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks and Alexandr Burilkov

Protecting home: how firms’ investment plans affect the formation of bilateral investment treaties pp. 667-692

Seungjun Kim

Institutional Overlap in Global Governance and the Design of Intergovernmental Organizations pp. 693-724

Bernhard Reinsberg and Oliver Westerwinter

Can IOs influence attitudes about regulating “Big Tech”? pp. 725-751

Terrence L. Chapman and Huimin Li

The performance of international organizations: a new measure and dataset based on computational text analysis of evaluation reports pp. 753-776

Steffen Eckhard, Vytautas Jankauskas, Elena Leuschner, Ian Burton, Tilman Kerl and Rita Sevastjanova

Vytautas Jankauskas and Steffen Eckhard. 2023. The Politics of Evaluation in International Organizations (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 777-781

Mirko Heinzel

Ranjit Lall. 2023. Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp. 783-787

Felicity Vabulas

Volume 18, issue 3, 2023

At what cost? Power, payments, and public support of international organizations pp. 431-465

Ryan Brutger and Richard Clark

Bureaucratic capacity and preference attainment in international economic negotiations pp. 467-498

Tarald Gulseth Berge and Øyvind Stiansen

WHO approves? Relative trust, the WHO, and China’s COVID-19 vaccines pp. 499-521

Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen, Hans H. Tung, Chien-Huei Wu and Wen-Chin Wu

Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in Africa pp. 523-551

Ann-Sofie Isaksson and Dick Durevall

Measuring precision precisely: A dictionary-based measure of imprecision pp. 553-571

Markus Gastinger and Henning Schmidtke

The political power of internet business: A comprehensive dataset of Telecommunications Ownership and Control (TOSCO) pp. 573-600

Tina Freyburg, Lisa Garbe and Véronique Wavre

Chris Humphrey. 2022. Financing the Future: Multilateral Development Banks in the Changing World Order of the 21st Century. (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Laura Francesca Peitz. 2023. The Dual Nature of Multilateral Development Banks: Balancing Development and Financial Logics. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press) pp. 601-606

Christopher Kilby

Volume 18, issue 2, 2023

Trading favors? UN Security Council membership and subnational favoritism in aid recipients pp. 237-258

Maria Berlin, Raj M. Desai and Anders Olofsgård

The impact of unilateral BIT terminations on FDI: Quasi-experimental evidence from India pp. 259-296

Simon Hartmann and Rok Spruk

Chinese or western finance? Transparency, official credit flows, and the international political economy of development pp. 297-328

Ben Cormier

Institutional roots of international alliances: Party groupings and position similarity at global climate negotiations pp. 329-359

Federica Genovese, Richard J. McAlexander and Johannes Urpelainen

Constraints and incentives in the investment regime: How bargaining power shapes BIT reform pp. 361-391

Tuuli-Anna Huikuri

The state does not live by warfare alone: War and revenue in the long nineteenth century pp. 393-418

Agustín Goenaga, Oriol Sabaté and Jan Teorell

Kim Moloney. 2022. Who Matters at the World Bank? Bureaucrats, Policy Change and Public Sector Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 419-423

Susan Park

Lisa Dellmuth, Jan Aart Scholte, Jonas Tallberg and Soetkin Verhaegen. 2022. Citizens, Elites, and the Legitimacy of Global Governance. (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 425-430

Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt

Volume 18, issue 1, 2023

Trade Wars and Election Interference pp. 1-25

Ryan Brutger, Stephen Chaudoin and Max Kagan

IOs’ selective adoption of NGO information: Evidence from the Universal Periodic Review pp. 27-59

Mintao Nie

How to sanction international wrongdoing? The design of EU restrictive measures pp. 61-85

Katharina Meissner

Does cultural diversity hinder the implementation of IMF-supported programs? An empirical investigation pp. 87-116

Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati and Samuel Brazys

Greening global governance: INGO secretariats and environmental mainstreaming of IOs, 1950 to 2017 pp. 117-143

Thomas Dörfler and Mirko Heinzel

Public responses to foreign protectionism: Evidence from the US-China trade war pp. 145-167

David A. Steinberg and Yeling Tan

When TED talks, does anyone listen? A new dataset on political leadership pp. 169-199

Thomas Edward Flores, Gabriella Lloyd and Irfan Nooruddin

China visits: a dataset of Chinese leaders’ foreign visits pp. 201-225

Yu Wang and Randall W. Stone

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks, Austin Strange and Michael J. Tierney. 2022. Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp. 227-231

Samuel Brazys

Susan Park. 2022. The Good Hegemon: US Power, Accountability as Justice, and the Multilateral Development Banks. (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 233-236

Dan Honig