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High-standard research center at the University of Milano-Bicocca advancing the empirical and theoretical knowledge of the European economy.

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Prof. Kai Gehring @kaigehring.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Two days left to register, on site or online. Thanks for sharing @juliegwen.bsky.social @dinapomeranz.bsky.social @bachmannrudi.bsky.social @adreher.bsky.social @wyssacademy.bsky.social @dlangenmayr.bsky.social
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Chris Earney @chrisearney.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We're increasingly using data on donor funding trends & combining it with strategic foresight to understand what the state of multilateralism could plausibly be in the coming years. This analysis from @the-peio.bsky.social on government donor funding is very interesting: bit.ly/4mkkUqB
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The far right and international organizations: How the far right in government affects foreign aid funding - The Review of International Organizations
The far right is on the rise, winning elections, entering governments globally, and politicizing international cooperation. Existing research finds only very limited effects of far-right governments o...
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Sabrina B. Arias @sabrinabarias.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
As the US steps back from leading in global governance institutions, China has increasingly stepped into leadership roles, serving as head of WHO, FAO, and other important UN agencies in recent years. In new (open access!) work with @rhulvey.bsky.social in @the-peio.bsky.social we ask: why? 1/5
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Lisa Dellmuth @lisadellmuth.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🙌 Recommended reading: rising powers can use international organisations to improve their image among foreign publics. These efforts may have negative effects on the perceived legitimacy of international organisations. Based on novel survey #Brazil #China #polisky @the-peio.bsky.social 👇
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy to share that our paper on the ideological biases of international organizations is now out in the current issue of the AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social): dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps... @the-peio.bsky.social @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social
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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Another call for better aid reporting. Axel Dreher says we should distinguish & report separately on: 1. Humanitarian aid 2. Global public goods 3. Development aid www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Deadline for PEIO 2026: September 30.
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Some of my thoughts on how to reform foreign aid in China Daily: global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202509/13/... (uncensored version here: axel-dreher.de/wp-content/u...)
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Aid program must return to its roots
Foreign aid isn't dying; it's in deep trouble. Just look at Seville, where the United States — the world's largest development donor not long ago — didn't even bother to send a delegation to the globa...
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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 08/09/2025
@adreher.bsky.social, Jingke Pan, & @cjschneider.bsky.social find that in regions receiving foreign aid, targeted killings of politicians are 15-20% higher in the years with aid inflows. Direct cash transfers should be considered in fragile contexts. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
Map of the world by ADM1 regions showing the number of years with targeted political violence in each region, 1990-2020.

Western donors drastically cut foreign aid in 2025, reigniting the familiar debate over whether aid works. This column examines how aid affects targeted political violence, looking at assassinations and attacks against politicians in 121 countries between 1990 and 2020. In regions receiving aid, targeted killings of politicians are 15%-20% higher in the years with aid inflows, especially where institutions are weak and elections are upcoming. Donors should avoid large transfers immediately before elections, consider direct cash transfers in fragile contexts, and incorporate political dynamics in risk assessments.
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CESifo @cesifo.org · 15/07/2025
New Paper Alert!📢 "Foreign Aid and Targeted Political Violence" by @adreher.bsky.social‬ Jingke Pan @cjschneider.bsky.social To understand how foreign aid can unintentionally fuel political violence in fragile democracies, read the full study here: 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
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Ricky Clark @rickyclark.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Many thanks to Michael Breen @dublincityuni.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of my book, Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance, in The Review of International Organizations @the-peio.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Richard Clark. 2025. Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) - The Review of International Organizations
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
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Christina Cottiero @ccottiero.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
📌The special issue "Illiberal Regimes and International Organizations" is now published as Vol. 20 Issue 2 in RIO! @the-peio.bsky.social link.springer.com/journal/1155... Summary thread with each piece-- 🧵
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The Review of International Organizations
The Review of International Organizations publishes original scientific contributions in the entire field of international political economy, with a focus on ...
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lennartkaplan.bsky.social @lennartkaplan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I look forward to this week's dialogue on a (sadly) timely topic: Sudden aid cuts @langlotzsarah.bsky.social @isdcberlin.bsky.social @adreher.bsky.social @kiel.institute @uni-goettingen.de @fuchsa.bsky.social
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Review of International Organizations invites papers using geocoded data on foreign aid for a special issue “Analyzing Global Development with the Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD).” See godad.me, godad.uni-goettingen.de/uploads/RIO_...
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The RIO allows manuscripts rejected at APSR, IO, ISQ to be transferred to the RIO (and v.v.). Interested in discussing the draft of RIO’s transfer policy? Share your thoughts and suggstions for improvement: shorturl.at/9jbQb, @the-peio.bsky.social, @iojournal.bsky.social, @apsrjournal.bsky.social
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Some thoughts on the suspension of USAID in an interview with @wirtschaftswoche.bsky.social: wiwo.de/politik/ausl... (in German)
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 05/02/2025
Who benefits from today’s illegal elimination of all US aid workers worldwide? China. China will fill the gaping void. Chinese aid greatly raises pro-China attitudes & influence across the world: @adreher.bsky.social et al.—> doi.org/10.1086/729539 Ungated—> www.aiddata.org/publications...
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Roman-Gabriel Olar @rgolar23.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
New publication alert @the-peio.bsky.social Under what conditions are new democracies more committed to human rights? More specifically, what role do former autocratic elites play in shaping ratification of international human rights treaties? link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Locking in democracy? Transitions, returning autocratic elites, and human rights treaty commitment - The Review of International Organizations
Under what conditions are new democracies more committed to human rights? Existing explanations focus on the logic of the democratic lock-in as elites in new democracies commit their countries to inte...
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Sabrina B. Arias @sabrinabarias.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Some IOs - like the IMF, UNSC, and the WHO - group small states together in 'proxy' systems, while powerful states speak for themselves. In new (open access!) work with @rickyclark.bsky.social and Ayse Kaya in @the-peio.bsky.social, we focus on the case of climate change in the IMF. 1/3
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Power by Proxy: Participation as a Resource in Global Governance - The Review of International Organizations
Member state participation is essential in global governance, affording international organizations (IOs) legitimacy and translating member state preferences into institutional attention. We contend t...
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (@the-peio.bsky.social) at IE University in Segovia, Spain, January 29-31, 2026. Submission is now open at peio.me. Thanks to Nikitas Konstantinidis for hosting!
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
*Extremely* timely EDCC article #econtwitter #econsky about effectiveness of foreign aid in building soft power. . .for China! Completion of Chinese foreign aid projects ⬆️ support for Chinese gov in recipient countries @elwellner @DreherAxel @fuchs_andreas @AustinMStrange
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Check out the papers of the 17th PEIO (@the-peio.bsky.social, Harvard University, Jan 23-25) at www.peio.me. Please save the date for our next PEIO, hosted by IE University in Segovia, Spain, on January 29-31, 2026. Thanks to Nikitas Konstantinidis for hosting us!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
@adreher.bsky.social, the one who started it all & has made @the-peio.bsky.social a cornerstone of the field, closing down another excellent PEIO conference. 17 years of building a great community of scholars on the political economy of international organizations. Next year in Segovia!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Perhaps the best conference of the year @the-peio.bsky.social. All of the world’s remaining multilateralists under one roof 😬
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Lisa Dellmuth @lisadellmuth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Excited to fly to @the-peio.bsky.social @harvard.edu - see you there!
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I wrote a joint paper about this in the EU financial crisis context (also published in @the-peio.bsky.social in 2020) so this goes straight in my reading pile
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Mike Tierney @miketierneyir.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Seven-year gestation period must be some kind of record. Grateful for the patience and thoughtfulness of @adreher.bsky.social, @fuchsa.bsky.social, @austinstrange.bsky.social, @rbluhm.bsky.social, and Brad Parks. CC: @the-peio.bsky.social
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Mike Tierney @miketierneyir.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Nice to see this in print in The Journal of Urban Economics. How do official Chinese-funded infrastructure projects diffuse economic activity in developing countries? The strongest effects are in least-developed regions and near cities. 1/2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial distribution of economic activity within subnational regions across a …
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Prof. Kai Gehring @kaigehring.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Calling all theoretical and empirical political economy scholars! 📢 Join us in beautiful Riga, Latvia 🇱🇻 for the next EPCS Conference. We also welcome work on related topics like public econ, development or political science. ✍️ #EPCS2025 #PoliticalEconomy #Riga
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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Interested in how politicians speak about international organizations in parliament? IOParlspeech is a new dataset of IO-related parliamentary speeches in six countries, which allows for a variety of analyses. Our forthcoming article in @the-peio.bsky.social describes the dataset in detail.
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
We have updated our geocoded aid data (GODAD) until 2023. Check them out at godad.me.
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Last day to submit to the PEIO! Join us at Harvard University in January! Please submit at app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/75898.... Full call for papers at peio.me
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Last day to submit to the GODAD workshop! Join us in Göttingen in March! Please submit at app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76562.... Full call for papers at godad.me
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Deadline approaching! Please submit your proposals at app.oxfordabstracts.com/dashboard/ev...! Details about the workshop and our geocoded aid data for 19 Western donors: godad.me
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Submission deadline approaching (Sep 30)! Please submit papers and pre-analysis plans at peio.me
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Interested in geocoded aid? Submit a one-page proposal for a paper to be presented at the workshop “Analyzing Global Development with the Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD),” University of Göttingen, Germany, in March 13-14. Deadline Sep 30, CfP at godad.me
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization (PEIO) Conference at Harvard University, January 23-25, 2025. Submission is now open at peio.me. Thanks to Stephen Chaudoin, Christina Davis, and Christoph Mikulaschek for hosting!
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
New PLAD data on leader birthregions, ethnicity, gender, education (1989-2023): plad.me We use our Political Leaders' Affiliation Database to test whether sub-national regions where leaders’ spouses are born receive more foreign aid. We find they do.
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
How can we measure informal influence of leaders’ unelected spouses? We use our Geocoded ODA Data (GODAD) to test whether sub-national regions where leaders’ spouses are born receive more aid. They do - from European donors, the US, China! Paper and data: godad.me
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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
Is aid effective? Depends on the outcome you look at! In our new review, we show aid is more effective for outcomes that donors aim to affect: - int'l alliances - democracy - trade ties - etc. Motives matter! sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (joint with @adreher.bsky.social & Bernhard Reinsberg)
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Lauren C. Konken @lkonken.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Thrilled to share that my paper with Sojun Park on the exploitation of treaty ambiguity in TRIPs has been published by @the-peio.bsky.social and is available via open access today! doi.org/10.1007/s115... Working through page proofs during the holidays is so worth it.
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (PEIO) in Stockholm, June 13-15, 2024. Submission deadline is today: peio.me. I hope to see you there!
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Ben Christian @benchristian.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
How do IOs change? @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social tackles this big question in her excellent book “Advocacy & Change in IOs”. I wrote a review @the-peio.bsky.social, highlighting what makes this book so special. A must-read for scholars of IOs, norms & peacekeeping! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Kseniya Oksamytna. 2023. Advocacy and Change in International Organizations: Communication, Protecti...
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Bernd Schlipphak @bschlipphak.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
New year, new post, new shameless self-ad: The Review of International Organizations published brilliant @osmansabrikiratli.bsky.social's and less brilliant me's study on "Populism and public attitudes toward international organizations: Voting, communication, and education". A short thread:
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Populism and public attitudes toward international organizations: Voting, communication, and educati...
What effect does populism have on public attitudes toward International Organizations (IOs)? In this article, we differentiate for the first time between populist communication – understood as IO cr...
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