Decades of social science research on human rights has mapped the conditions under
which states sign and ratify treaties, abide by their conditions, and promote or criticize …

The chapter explores the performance of Eurasian regional organizations in terms of their
key official declared goal–market integration and removal of internal barriers for trade. It …

The current binary understanding of membership in international organizations (IOs),
especially regional organizations (ROs), creates blind spots and biases in our …

Liberal democracy is facing renewed challenges from a growing group of states undergoing
democratic backsliding. While entrenched autocrats have long resented and contested the …

By influencing beliefs about electoral quality, international election observation missions
(EOMs) play an important role in shaping post-election contention. As the number and …

Authoritarian regionalism–that is, regional organizations created by autocracies–are a
particularly understudied species in the universe of international organizations (IOs). Recent …

Why do authoritarian countries form authoritarian international organizations (AIOs) when
there is an abundance of democratic-dominant international organizations (DIOs) that …

Authoritarian learning plays an increasingly important role in global processes of
autocratization and democratic backsliding yet remains understudied and undertheorized …

Recent years have witnessed significant democratic backsliding. Many democracies around
the world experience incremental deteriorations of democratic institutions, rules, and norms …

Since the beginning of the 2000s, the involvement of great powers in international
organizations has leveled off, and perhaps even declined. This has created space for middle …