Pawel Tverskoi has joined the Center of International Relations as a research associate in May 2024. He has been part of the DFG-funded project “Should I Stay or Should I Go? State Exits from Regional Organizations” (Prof. Dr. Diana Panke) since February 2023. 

Previously, he has worked as project staff for an international organization focusing on rule of law promotion, as an analyst with security consultancies, and as a research associate for a conflict analysis journal.  

Pawel Tverskoi studied International Relations at the University of Malta and Politics and Public Administration with a specialisation in International Administration and Conflict Management at the University of Konstanz. 

Research interests 

• International and regional organisations 
• International relations 
• Security and conflict studies 
• Foreign policy analysis 
• Foreign and security policy of small states 
• External interventions in civil wars 

Monographies

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Pawel Tverskoi (2025): Exit Threats in Regional International Organizations, Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Articles (with peer review)

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, and Pawel Tverskoi (forthcoming): Discontent, Voice, and Loyalty: Why States Withdraw from Regional International Organizations. Journal of International Relations and Development.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, and Pawel Tverskoi (forthcoming): After the Pink Tide Ended: How Increased Ideological Divergence Leads to Severe Contestations of Regional International Organizations in Latin America. Journal of Latin American Studies.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Pawel Tverskoi (2025): Exit from Regime Complexity? Regional International Organizations Under Scrutiny. Global Studies Quarterly, 5(1), 1-17.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Pawel Tverskoi (2024): Between Crisis and Revival: Withdrawal Threats, State Exits, and Institutional Change of Regional International Organizations, German Political Sciences Quarterly 66, 623-647.

Book chapters

• Tainá Siman, Sören Stapel, Pawel Tverskoi (forthcoming): Overlaps, observers, and organizational cooperation: New perspectives on interregionalism. In: Amitav Acharya, Philippe De Lombaerde, Beatrix Futák-Campbell, Lynda Chinenye Iroulo, Juliana Peixoto Batista (eds.) Essays on Global Regionalism. Cham: Springer.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Pawel Tverskoi (2025): Regional Organisations, Exit Threats, and Contestations of Community Norms. In: Flavia Lucenti, Cecilia Ducci, Carmen Wunderlich, Jeffrey S. Lantis (eds.) Contestation in Prism: The Evolution of Norms and Norm Clusters in Contemporary Global Politics. London: Springer, 45-63.

Conference papers 

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Sören Stapel, and Pawel Tverskoi (2025): The Politics of Concessions: How International Organizations Respond to Member States’ Exit Threats. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the German Political Science Association’s Thematic Group International Organizations (TGIO), November 2025, Heidelberg.

• Pawel Tverskoi (2025): Observers in Regional Organisations: Architects of Inter-Regional Cooperation? Paper presented at the EU-RENEW Conference ‘Europe-Asia Connectivities in Geopolitical Times’, May 2025, Seoul.

• Pawel Tverskoi (2025): Observers in Regional Organisations and their Impact on Inter-Regional Cooperation. Paper presented at the Early Career Convention 'International Relations' of the German Political Science Association, March 2025, Tutzing, Germany.

• Pawel Tverskoi (2025): What is your status? Observers Status and its Implications for Regional International Organizations. Papper presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 2025, Chicago, IL.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, and Pawel Tverskoi (2025): Exit from Regime Complexity? Regional International Organizations Under Scrutiny. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 2025, Chicago, IL.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, and Pawel Tverskoi (2025): What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger? Exit-Related Challenges and the Resilience of International Organizations. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 2025, Chicago, IL.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, and Pawel Tverskoi (2025): Escalating Contestations in Regional Organizations: Voicing Severe Dissatisfaction, Exit Threats and Exits. Paper presented at the workshop for the German Research Foundation-funded project 'Should I Stay or Should I Go? State Exits from Regional Organizations’, January 2025, Berlin.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Pawel Tverskoi (2024): Exit-Related Contestations of International Organizations in the Face of Polycrisis. Paper presented at the 29th Academic Convention of the German Political Science Association, September 2024, Göttingen, Germany.

• Pawel Tverskoi (2024): Conceptions, Characteristics and Roles: The Case of Observers in Regional International Organisations. Paper presented at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, August 2024, Dublin.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Pawel Tverskoi (2024): International Organizations in Turbulent Times: Exit-Related Challenges from Within. Paper presented at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, August 2024, Dublin.

• Pawel Tverskoi (2024): Watch, Learn, and Influence? Examining the Role of Observers in International Organizations. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, April 2024, San Francisco, CA.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Pawel Tverskoi (2024): Resilience or Decline? Contestations of Community Norms in Regional International Organizations. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, April 2024, San Francisco, CA.

• Pawel Tverskoi (2024): Observers in International Organisations: Causes, Driving Forces and Motivations. Paper presented at the Early-Career-Convention 'International Relations' of the German Political Science Association, March 2024, Tutzing, Germany.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Pawel Tverskoi (2023): After the Pink Tide Ended: How Right-Wing Governments Challenge Left-Leaning Regional International Organizations in Latin America. Paper presented at the kick-off workshop of the ERC-project ‘The Far Right and International Organizations’, November 2023, Frankfurt, Germany.

• Pawel Tverskoi (2023): Observers in (Regional) International Organisations: Architects of Inter-Organisational Cooperation? Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Working Group on International Organisations of the German Political Science Association, November 2023, Jena, Germany.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Pawel Tverskoi (2023): Contribution to the Roundtable: Contestation in Prism: Patterns of Norm Evolution, Consolidation, and Decay. Paper presented at the 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations of the European International Studies Association, September 2023, Potsdam, Germany.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Pawel Tverskoi (2023): Time to Leave! Studying State Exits from Regional International Organizations. Paper presented at the Conference on International Relations of the German Political Science Association, June 2023, Friedrichshafen, Germany.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Pawel Tverskoi (2023): Between Crisis and Revival: The Effects of State Exits on Regional Organizations. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Working Group on European and Regional Studies of the German Political Science Association, May 2023, Saarbrücken, Germany.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Pawel Tverskoi (2023): Ending Cooperation. A Comparative Analysis of State Exits from Regional International Organizations. Paper presented at the 18th Biennial Conference of the European Union Studies Association, May 2023, Pittsburgh, PA.

• Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, Pawel Tverskoi (2023): Ending Cooperation: A Comparative Analysis of State Exits from Regional International Organizations. Paper presented at the 64th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, March 2023, Montréal, Canada.