Contestation and Change in International Organizations

Workshop

28 - 29 April 2022

Convenors: Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann, Dr. Nele Kortendiek and Lily Young.

Building „Normative Orders“ Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2
Frankfurt am Main, 60323

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Programm:

Thursday, 28 April 2022

9h00
Registration and Coffee

9h30
Welcome and Introduction

Part I: International Organizations under Pressure? External and Internal Contestation Dynamics

10h00
Anna Holzscheiter (TU Dresden) and Andrea Liese (Potsdam University): “Disentangling IO Responses to Norm Collisions. A Typology“
Discussant: Jonas Tallberg

11h00
Coffee Break

11h30
Felix Anderl (University of Marburg) and Michael Hißen (Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen): “Food Sovereignty Movement vs. Agribusiness: The UN Food Regime as a Battlefield”
Discussant: Ole Jacob Sending

12h30
Lunch Break

14h00
Catherine Weaver (The University of Texas at Austin) and Mirko Heinzel (Potsdam University): “Intellectual Monopolies and Ideational Change in International Financial Institutions”
Discussant: Leonard Seabrooke

Part II: To Change or Not to Change? How International Organizations React to Contestation

15h00
Leonard Seabrook (CBS) and Ole Jacob Sending (NUPI): “Institutional Ecologies and Organizational Change in Global Governance” (hybrid)
Discussant: Thomas Sommerer

16h00
Coffee Break

16h30
Lisbeth Zimmermann, Nele Kortendiek and Lily Young (Goethe University Frankfurt): “Open for Change? Explaining WHO’s and UNICEF’s Reactions to Contestation by Affected Groups”
Discussant: Antje Vetterlein

Friday, 29 April 2022

9h00
Nicola Piper (Queen Mary University of London) and Laura Foley (University College Dublin): “Moving the Goalposts in Qatar via Multi-Actor Governing Networks: The role of the ILO” (hybrid)
Discussant: Anna Holzscheiter

Part III: Open, Networked, Donor-Driven? Patterns and Drivers behind Policy Change in International Organizations

10h00
Alexander Kentikelenis (Bocconi University Milan) and Leonard Seabrooke (CBS): “How Global Boardrooms Shape the World Polity: A Social-Organizational Approach to Global Script-Writing"
Discussant: Andrea Liese

11h00
Coffee Break

11h30
Carl Vikberg (Stockholm University), Thomas Sommerer (Potsdam University) and Jonas Tallberg (Stockholm University): “False Promise? Non-State Actor Access and Participation in Global Governance”
Discussant: Felix Anderl

12h30
Lunch Break

13h30
Nicole Deitelhoff (PRIF): “Legitimacy Policy through Dialogue Forums? Global Economic Institutions and their Critics”
Discussant: Catherine Weaver

14h30
Wrap-Up and Further Plans
Rapporteurs: Nicole Deitelhoff and Laura Foley

15h30
Coffee and Farewell

Presented by:
„ConTrust. Vertrauen im Konflikt. Politisches Zusammenleben unter Bedingungen der Ungewissheit“ – ein Clusterprojekt des Landes Hessen am Forschungsverbund „Normative Ordnungen“ der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)