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Workshop on Hybrid Organizations in Global Governance
📍 Québec City, Canada
Organized by Jean-Frédéric Morin and Guillaume Beaumier, this workshop brings together around 25 participants to discuss hybrid organizations in global governance - organizations that are neither pure IGOs nor conventional private actors, such as IUCN, the Red Cross, ICANN, or the World Anti-doping Agency. Participants will discuss short research notes and collectively reflect on how to conceptualize these hybrid forms and study what they do in global governance. More information
Third Annual Politics of Sovereign Finance Conference
đź“Ť 1333 New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, DC
This conference, which takes place under Chatham House rules, brings together academics, policymakers and private sector participants to consider contemporary issues in the realm of sovereign finance. We focus especially on the politics — domestic and international — related to climate finance, international financial institutions, debt restructuring, transparency, and credit ratings. We seek to combine discussions of academic research with insights from practitioners. More information
Inken von Borzyskowski, "Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change"
đź“Ť Geneva, Switzerland
Why do states exit international organizations (IOs)? How often does exit from IOs – including voluntary withdrawal and forced suspension – occur? What are the effects of leaving IOs for the exiting state? Despite the importance of membership in IOs, a broader understanding of exit across states, organizations, and time has been limited. Inken von Borzyskowski will present her new book, Exit from International Organizations (Cambridge University Press, 2025), co-authored with Felicity Vabulas, that addresses these lacunae through a theoretically grounded and empirically systematic study of IO exit. The authors argue that there is a common logic to IO exit which helps explain both its causes and consequences. By examining IO exit across 198 states, 534 IOs, and over a hundred years of history, they show that exit is driven by states' dissatisfaction, preference divergence, and is a strategy to negotiate institutional change. The book also demonstrates that exit is costly because it has reputational consequences for leaving states and significantly affects other forms of international cooperation. More information