Research

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Research Projects

RESEARCH PROJECT

Disruptions in Politics and Technology

RESEARCH PROJECT

China and the Reconfiguration of Global Economic Governance

RESEARCH PROJECT

The Evolution of International Regime Complexes

RESEARCH PROJECT

The Deep Structure of Transatlantic Relations

Research Areas

Global Governance
European Integration
International Organizations
Principal-Agent Theory

International Political Economy
Disruptions in Politics and Technology
Accountability in the Digital Age
Trade Politics

Completed Research Projects

RESEARCH PROJECT

Learning from the “Frontrunner”? A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Chinese Social Credit System and its Impact on Germany

RESEARCH PROJECT

Agency Slack – International Bureaucracies as “Runaway Agents”? How Organizational Structure Affects Agency Slack

RESEARCH PROJECT

Legacies and Innovations in Global Economic Governance Since Bretton Woods

RESEARCH PROJECT

Delegation and Empowerment of International Organizations over Time

Research Grants

TUM Institute for Advanced Study - Carl von Linde Fellowship

2022 – 2027
Research Project: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of Disruptions in Politics and Technology

TUM Institute for Advanced Study

2021 – 2025
Research Project: Variations in the Regulation of New Technologies (with K. Thelen, MIT)

Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt)

2020 – 2023

Research Project: Learning from the “Frontrunner”? A multidisciplinary Analysis of the Chinese Social Credit System and its Impact on Germany (with J. Großklags, TUM School of Computational Science and D. Fischer, University of Würzburg)

TUM Institute for Advanced Study

2018 – 2022

Research Project: China in Global Economic Governance (with S. Park, University of Sydney)

German Research Foundation (DFG)

2017 – 2021

Research Project: International Bureaucracies as “Runaway Agents”? How Organizational Structure Affects Agency Slack

European Research Council (ERC)

2012 – 2019

Research Project: Delegation and Empowerment of International Organizations over Time

Latest Research News

The Political Power of Digital Multinational Companies in an Era of Geo-Technological Competition
The Political Power of Digital Multinational Companies in an Era of Geo-Technological Competition

The Political Power of Digital Multinational Companies in an Era of Geo-Technological Competition

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How EU Industrial Policy Got Its Groove Back: Securitisation and Governance Shifts in the Geoeconomic Era
How EU Industrial Policy Got Its Groove Back: Securitisation and Governance Shifts in the Geoeconomic Era

How EU Industrial Policy Got Its Groove Back: Securitisation and Governance Shifts in the Geoeconomic Era

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New Special Issue: China’s Rise and the Reconfiguration of Global Economic Governance
New Special Issue: China’s Rise and the Reconfiguration of Global Economic Governance

New Special Issue: China’s Rise and the Reconfiguration of Global Economic Governance

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