Professor Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni

Key publications: 

▪ (2025) "Reorienting Climate Litigation in a Time of Backlash" NATURE Climate Change (Fall, 2025) (w. J.Setzer, H.van-Asselt, L.Vanhala, N.Hall, I.Higham)

▪ (2025) "Laymen Experts and Citizen Scientists: Who are the New Experts in the Digital Age?” In Experts in a Turbulent World (edited by Jan Eiking) Oxford University Press, 2025.

▪ (2024) "Climate Activism, Digital Technologies, and Organisational Change", (with Nina Hall). Cambridge University Press (Elements: Organisational responses to Climate Change) (available online November 2024).

▪ (2024) “Accountability in Densely Institutionalized Governance Spaces”, (w. S. Hofmann). Global Policy.

▪ (2024) “To Reform or to Replace. Succession as a mechanism of institutional change in intergovernmental organizations”, (w. D. Verdier). The Review of International Organizations.

▪ (2023) “The Instability of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime Complex”, Review of International Political Economy (iFirst).

▪ (2023) “Issue-Adoption and Campaign Structure in Transnational Advocacy Campaigns. A Longitudinal Network Analysis”, (with L. Breen). European Journal of International Relations. Online First, March 2023. DOI: 10.1177/13540661231158553

▪ (2022) “The Anachronism of Bellicist State-Building”, Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 29, issue 12, pp. 1901-1915.

▪ (2022) Vigilantes beyond Borders. NGOs as Enforcers of International Law (w. JC Sharman) Princeton University Press.

▪ (2022) “The OSCE in Crisis. Five Lessons from the League of Nations”, OSCE Insights 3/2022 (Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp. 1-14.

▪ (2022) “Ordering Global Governance Complexes. The Evolution of the Governance Complex for International Civil Aviation", The Review of International Organizations, vol. 17, pp. 293-322. 

▪ (2022) "The Global Governance Complexity Cube: Varieties of Institutional Complexity in Global Governance", (w. O. Westerwinter), Review of International Organizations, vol. 17, pp. 233-262.

▪ (2021) “Re-bordering Europe? Collective Action Barriers to 'Fortress Europe'", Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 28, pp. 447-467.

▪ (2021) “What Kills International Organisations? When and Why Intergovernmental Organisations Terminate”, European Journal of International Relations, vol. 27, Issue 1

▪ (2021) “Enforcers Beyond Borders: Transnational NGOs and the Enforcement of International Law", (w. JC Sharman), Perspectives on Politics, vol. 19, issue 1, pp. 131-147.

▪ (2020) “Death of international organizations. The organizational ecology of intergovernmental organizations, 1815-2015". Review of International Organizations, vol. 15, pp. 339–370.

▪ (2020) “Of the Contemporary Global Order, Crisis, and Change”, (w. SC Hofmann) Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 27, issue 7, pp. 1077-1089.

▪ (2019) “Competition and strategic differentiation among transnational advocacy groups”, Interest Groups and Advocacy, vol. 8, pp. 376-406.

▪ (2018) “Why the World Needs an International Cyberwar Convention", Philosophy and Technology, vol. 31, 379-407.

▪ (2018) “Hierarchy among NGOs: Authority and influence in global civil society", International Politics Reviews2, vol. 6, pp. 99-106. 

▪ (2016) “Power and Purpose in Transgovernmental Networks: Insights from the Global Nonproliferation Regime”. In The New Power Politics: Networks and Transnational Security Governance, eds. D Avant and O Westerwinter (Oxford University Press).

▪ (2016) “Global Governance Networks”. In Oxford Handbook of Political Networks, eds. JN Victor, AH Montgomery and M Lubell (Oxford University Press, 2016).

▪ (2014) “From Advocacy to Confrontation: Direct Enforcement by Environmental NGOs”, (w. Teale Phelps-Bondaroff) International Studies Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 348-361.

▪ (2014) “Europe's Defence Dilemma”, International Spectator, vol. 49, no. 2.

▪ (2014) “Informal Cooperation beyond the Alliance”. In NATO’s Post-Cold War Politics. The Changing Provision of Security. Ed. S Mayer (Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 269-288.

▪ (2014) “Network theory and security governance”, In Handbook of Governance and Security. Ed. J Sperling (Edward Elgar, 2014), pp. 41-62.

▪ (2014) “Weapons Proliferation: regimes and networks in international governance”, International Relations: Continuity and Change in Global Politics. Eds. W Brown, O Corry and A Czajka (Open University).

▪ (2009) “Varieties of Cooperation: Government Networks in International Security", In M Kahler, ed., Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance (Cornell University Press), pp. 194-227.

▪ (2009) "The End of Balance-of-Power Theory?", European Journal or International Relations, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 347-380.

▪ (2008) “Assessing the Dangers of Illicit Networks: Why al-Qaida May Be Less Threatening Than Many Think", International Security, vol 33, no. 2, pp. 7-44.

▪ (2008) “Uneven Power and the Pursuit of Peace: How Regional Power Transition Promotes Integration", Journal of Comparative European Politics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 102-142.

▪ (2006) BOOK: Debates on European Integration. The European Union Series (Palgrave Macmillan), pp. i-505.

▪ (2005) “European Integration as a Solution to War", (w. D Verdier). European Journal of International Relations, vol. 11, issue 1.

▪ (2005) “Transnational Networks and New Security Threats”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol. 18, issue 1. 

▪ (2003) “Why a Common Foreign and Security Policy is Bad for Europe”, Survival, vol. 45, issue 4.