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Nested Games: Regional Actors in Multilateral Negotiations

Verhandeln in komplexen Mehrebenensystemen

Verhandeln in komplexen Mehrebenensystemen

Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 

Period of Funding: October 2013 - September 2016; Extended until August 2018 

Project Leadership: Prof. Dr. Diana Panke 

Research Assistants: Anke Wiedemann, Stefan Lang 

Student Assistants: Marina Ermes, Martin Scharf, Thomas Krebs, Matthias Edelmann 

  

Abstract: 

Research has shown that regional organizations (ROs) are often active outside their geographical borders. In this context, the European Union's (EU) Neighborhood Policy can be seen as an example. The project 'Nested Games: Regional Actors in Multilateral Negotiations' also deals with ROs as external actors but takes a different perspective. It examines the role of different ROs in multilateral negotiations in a number of different international organizations (IOs).  

 

With the growth of ROs and IOs since the end of the Second World War and the increasing overlapping membership of states in ROs and IOs, ROs are de facto increasingly becoming actors in IOs. Examples of this include ASEAN's role in the International Labor Organization (ILO) (with regard to unemployment insurance) or Mercosur's support for a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic as part of the negotiations in the International Whaling Commission (IWC). 

 

This project sheds light on the phenomenon of regionalization of multilateral negotiations using multi-level approaches. On a broad data basis and with the help of qualitative and quantitative methods, a number of different ROs and IOs are used to examine how actively ROs participate in negotiations in the various IOs and how influential they are in shaping the content of international norms. Are some ROs more active than others and are some IOs particularly open to ROs and why? Under what conditions can ROs exert de facto influence over international standards even though they are not usually full members? 

 

Publications: 

  • Diana Panke (2017): Speech is Silver, Silence is Golden? Examining State Activity in International Negotiations. The Review of International Organizations,12(1): 121-146. 

  • Diana Panke, Stefan Lang and Anke Wiedemann (2017): State & Regional Actors in Complex Governance Systems. Exploring Dynamics of International Negotiations. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19(1): 91-112. 

  • Diana Panke, Stefan Lang and Anke Wiedemann (2015): Regional Actors in the United Nations. Exploring the Regionalization of International Negotiations. Global Affairs,1(04-05): 431-440. 

  • Diana Panke (2014): The European Union in the United Nations. An Effective External Actor?. Journal of European Public Policy, 21(7): 1050-1066. 

  • Diana Panke (2014): Communicative Power Europe? How the EU Copes with Opposition in International Negotiations. European Foreign Affairs Review, 19(3): 357-372. 

  • Diana Panke (2013): Regional Power Revisited. How to Explain Differences in Coherency and Success of Regional Organizations in the United Nations General Assembly. International Negotiation Journal, 18(2): 265–291. 

 

Conference Contributions – and Papers: 

2017: 

  • Workshop "New Datasets on International and Regional Organizations - Inter-Operability, Best Practices, and the Way Forward", University of Göttingen, December 6th, "Responses to Crisis: How Regional Organizations Change" (Diana Panke, Anna Starkmann).  

  • 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Barcelona, September 15th, "Responses to Crises: How Regional Organizations Change" (Diana Panke, Anna Starkmann).  

 

2016: 

  • EU in International Affairs Conference, Brussels, May 11th to 13th: “The EU and Other Regional Actors in International Negotiations. Why Are some ROs more Active than Others?” (Diana Panke) 

  • ECPR Standing Group 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union, Trento/ Italy, June 16th to 18th: “The EU and other Regional Actors in International Negotiations. Why Are some ROs more Active than Others?” (Diana Panke) 

  • ISA Annual Convention Atlanta/USA, February 18th: “Speaking with One Voice? Activity of Regional Actors in International Peace and Security Negotiations” (Diana Panke, Anke Wiedemann). 

  • ISA Annual Convention Atlanta/USA, February 18th: “A Peaceful Cooperation? Varying Success of Regional Actors in the Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations” (Diana Panke, Anke Wiedemann). 

 

2015: 

  • DVPW Congress Duisburg/Germany, September 25th: “The International Effects of Overlapping Regionalism”. Panel: “Ursachen und Konsequenzen von überlappender Mitgliedschaft in Regionalorganisationen” (Diana Panke, Stefan Lang and Anke Wiedemann). 

  • British International Studies Association Conference 2015, London, 17th to 19th June 2015: "Regional Actors in International Organizations. Towards a Regionalization of International Negotiations?" (Diana Panke, Stefan Lang and Anke Wiedemann) 

  • ISA Annual Convention New Orleans/ USA, February 20th: “Regional Organizations as Shapers of International Norms?” (Stefan Lang and Anke Wiedemann). 

  • ISA Annual Convention New Orleans/ USA, February 19th: “Overlapping Regionalization and Its International Effects” (Diana Panke). 

  • ISA Annual Convention New Orleans/ USA, February 19th: “Regional Actors in International Institutions. Active = Influential?” (Diana Panke, Stefan Lang and Anke Wiedemann). 

  • ISA Annual Convention New Orleans/ USA, February 17th: “Multiple Irons in the Fire: Effects of Overlapping Memberships in United Nations Negotiations (Diana Panke, Stefan Lang and Anke Wiedemann; Contribution in Workshop “Overlapping Regionalism: Drivers, Interactions, Effects”). 

  • Workshop “'The EU at the UN General Assembly” Athens/Greece, February 13th – 14th: “The Effectiveness of Regional Actors in the UNGA. The EU in a Comparative Perspective” (Diana Panke). 

 

2014: 

  • Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen/Germany, November 20th: “Regional Actors in International Organizations- Towards a Regionalization of International Negotiations?” (Diana Panke). 

  • European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Glasgow/United Kingdom, September 6th: “Regional Groups in the United Nations – Coordinated Influence?” (Diana Panke, Stefan Lang and Anke Wiedemann). 

  • ISA Annual Convention Toronto/Canada, March 28th: “Regional Actors in International Institutions. Why Do some Participate more Actively in Negotiations than Others?” (Diana Panke, Stefan Lang and Anke Wiedemann).