Dynamics of the International Order

Led by: Dr Markus Pauli

This research cluster analyses the international political order – its evolution over time and especially its legitimacy, its authority and its effectiveness to deal with global challenges including peace and sustainable development. Cluster members are studying a range of specific countries and institutions, as well as norms and international agreements. The topics range from trade, health, and development to crime, climate change and environmental protection. Our research is interested in the dynamics of the international order and how actors shape it due to their interests and respective power.

Projects and publications

Global Governance

Ghassim, Farsan, and Markus Pauli. “Who on earth wants a world government, what kind, and why? An international survey experiment”. International Studies Quarterly, 2024. Open Access.

Foreign Policy

Mitra, Subrata K., Jivanta Schottli, and Markus Pauli. Statecraft and Foreign Policy: India 1947-2023. UCL & Dublin City University Press, 2023. Open Access: https://www.dcupress.dcu.ie/statecraft

Eldad Ben Aharon (2022) 'Israeli Foreign Policy: A People Shall Not Dwell Alone'. Diplomacy & Statecraft. [DOI]

Eldad Ben Aharon (2022) 'Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies'. Diplomacy & Statecraft.  [DOI]

McDonagh, K. (2022) 'Ireland’s Foreign Relations in 2021'. Irish Studies in International Affairs, 33. [DOI]

Donnacha Ó Beacháin Brian Murphy (2021) From Whence I Came: The Kennedy Legacy, Ireland and America. Dublin: Merrion. [Link]

International Development

Florini, Ann, and Markus Pauli. “Collaborative governance for the sustainable development goals”. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2018. Open Access. 

Climate Governance

Oberthür, Sebastian, Alina Averchenkova, Helge Jörgens, Kati Kulovesi, Tereza Maarova, Markus Pauli, Leonie Reins, Jeffrey Rosamond, Diarmuid Torney, and Alison Hough. “Review of the governance regulation and the European climate law”. Review of the Governance Regulation and the European Climate Law: Upgrading the EU’s procedural climate governance. GreenDeal-NET, Policy Options Paper, 2024. Open Access.

Brereton, Pat. "Cinema, ecology, and environment." In The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication, pp. 329-342. Routledge, 2022. [DOI]

Murphy, Padraig, Pat Brereton, and Fiachra O'Brolchain. "New materialism, object-oriented ontology and fictive imaginaries: New directions in energy research." Energy Research & Social Science 79 (2021): 102146. [DOI]

Pamplany, Augustine, Bert Gordijn, and Patrick Brereton. "The ethics of geoengineering: A literature review." Science and Engineering Ethics 26 (2020): 3069-3119. [DOI]
 

Peace architecture

Walt Kilroy, Sukanya Podder and Allard Duursma (2024), “Civilian Protection in Theory and Practice”, Civil Wars.

Gallen, James and Anne-Marie McAlinden, Marie Keenan (2025) Transforming Justice Responses to Historical Institutional Abuses. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Link]   
Gëzim Visoka (2024) 'The Evolution of Peacebuilding' In: Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding. London : Routledge. [Link]

Kilroy, Walt and Klem Ryan (2024) 'Institutionalising an Emergency Response: ‘Protection of Civilians’ Sites at UN Bases in South Sudan as a Way to Deal with Violence Against Communities'. Civil Wars, 26 (1):126-159. [DOI]

Kilroy, Walt (2021) 'Social Capital and Peace' In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI]

Cornelia Adriana, and John Doyle (Eds.) (2019) Peace, Security and Defence Cooperation in Post-Brexit Europe (Heidelberg: Springer Nature). Heidelberg: Springer Nature. [Link]

Visoka, Gëzim and John Doyle, Edward Newman (eds.) (2019) Routledge Handbook of State Recognition. London: Routledge. [Link]

Doyle, John (2019) 'Indian approaches to security and conflict resolution'. Revista UNISCI, 49 :43-62. [Link]

Isaacs, R.; Polese, A. (2016) Nation-building and identity in the post-soviet space: New tools and approaches. [DOI]

European Union

Léonard, Sarah, and Christian Kaunert. "The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices." In The Spiralling of the Securitisation of Migration in the European Union, pp. 91-103. Routledge, 2023. [Link]

Janine Silga (2022) 'Differentiation in the EU Migration Policy: The ‘Fractured’ Values of the EU'. European Papers- A Journal on Law and Integration. [Link]

Fradejas-García, Ignacio, Abel Polese, and Fazila Bhimji. "Transnational (im) mobilities and informality in Europe." Migration Letters 18, no. 2 (2021): 121-133. [Link]

Janine Silga (2021) Beyond the Institutional Dimension of Differentiated Governance: Uncovering the ‘Fractured’ Values of EU Migration Policy. WP [DOI]

Ukraine 

Tetyana Lokot (2024) 'The politics of uncertainty: Mediated campaign narratives about Russia’s war on Ukraine' In: U.S. Election Analysis 2024: Media, Voters and the Campaign. Poole, England : The Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research, Bournemouth University. [Link]

Kaunert, C., MacKenzie, A., & Léonard, S. (2023). Far-right foreign fighters and Ukraine: A blind spot for the European Union? New Journal of European Criminal Law, 14(2), 247-266. [DOI]

Tetyana Lokot (2023) 'The role of citizens’ affective media practices in participatory warfare during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine'. Journal of International Relations and Development, 26 (4). [DOI] 

Lokot, Tetyana (2023) 'Russia’s Networked Authoritarianism in Ukraine’s Occupied Territories during the Full-Scale Invasion: Control and Resilience'. LSE Public Policy Review, 3 (1). [Link] 

Polese, Abel (2016) Limits of a Post-Soviet State: How Informality Replaces, Renegotiates and Reshapes Governance in Ukraine. Germany: ibidem Press. [Link]