Publications

Selected recent publications Monographs Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals Book Chapters and Proceedings Journal Articles Book Reviews Web Publications Research and Policy Papers

Selected recent publications

Schmidtke, Henning, and Tobias Lenz (2024): "Expanding or Defending Legitimacy? Why International Organizations Intensify Self-legitimation," Review of International Organizations 19(4): 753–784 [open access].

Lenz, Tobias, and Mariel Reiss (2024): "Globalising the Study of Diffusion: Multiple Sources and the East African Community," Journal of European Public Policy 31(11): 3703-31 [open access].

Lenz, Tobias, Bes Ceka, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, and Alexandr Burilkov (2023): "Discovering Cooperation: Endogenous Change in International Organizations," Review of International Organizations 18(4), 631-666 [open access].

Lenz, Tobias, and Fredrik Söderbaum (2023): "The Origins of Legitimation Strategies in International Organizations: Agents, Audiences and Environments," International Affairs 99(3), 899-920 [open access].

Lenz, Tobias, and Henning Schmidtke (2023): "Agents, Audiences, and Peers: Why International Organizations Diversify their Discursive Legitimation," International Affairs 99(3), 921-940 [open access].

Lenz, Tobias (2021): "Interorganizational Diffusion in International Relations: Regional Institutions and the Role of the European Union," Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford: Oxford University Press [open access].

Monographs

Schimmelfennig, Frank, Thomas Winzen, Tobias Lenz, Jofre Rocabert, Loriana Crasnic, Cristina Gherasimov, Jana Lipps, and Densua Mumford (2020): The Rise of International Parliaments: Strategic Legitimation in International Organizations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hooghe, Liesbet, Tobias Lenz, and Gary Marks (2019): A Theory of International Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hooghe, Liesbet, Gary Marks, Tobias Lenz, Jeanine Bezuijen, Besir Ceka, and Svet Derderyan (2017): Measuring International Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lenz, Tobias (2009): From Geo-Politics to Geo-Economics: The European Union’s Promotion of Regional Integration in Latin America, 1980 – today. Saarbrücken: VDM.

Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals

Lenz, Tobias, and Mariel Reiss (2024): "Globalising the Study of Diffusion: Multiple Sources and the East African Community," Journal of European Public Policy 31(11): 3703-31 [open access].

Schmidtke, Henning, Swantje Schirmer, Niklas Krösche, and Tobias Lenz (2024): "The Legitimation of International Organizations: Introducing a New Dataset," International Studies Perspectives 25(1): 86-110 [open access].

Stephen Hall, Tobias Lenz, and Anastassia Obydenkova (2022): "Environmental Commitments and Rhetoric over the Pandemic Crisis: Social Media and Legitimation of the AIIB, the EAEU, and the EU," Post-Communist Economies 34(5), 577–602 [open access].

Haftel, Yoram, and Tobias Lenz (2022): "Measuring Institutional Overlap in Global Governance," Review of International Organizations 17(2), 323–347 [open access].

Lenz, Tobias (2021): "Diffusion and Decentralized Bargaining in International Organizations: Evidence from Mercosur’s Dispute Settlement Mechanism," International Studies Review 23(4), 1859–1883.

Lenz, Tobias, Alexandr Burilkov, and Lora Viola (2019): "Legitimacy and the Cognitive Sources of International Institutional Change: The Case of Regional Parliamentarization," International Studies Quarterly 63(4), 1094–1107 [open access].

Hooghe, Liesbet, Tobias Lenz, and Gary Marks (2019): "Contested World Order: The Delegitimation of International Governance," Review of International Organizations 14(4), 731–743.

Lenz, Tobias, and Kalypso Nicolaidis (2019): "EU-topia? A Critique of the European Union as a Model," Culture, Practice and Europeanization 4(2), 78–101 [open access].

Lenz, Tobias (2018): "Frame Diffusion and Institutional Choice in Regional Economic Cooperation," International Theory 10(1), 31–70 [open access].

Lenz, Tobias, and Lora Viola (2017): "Legitimacy and Institutional Change in International Organizations: A Cognitive Approach," Review of International Studies 43(5), 939-961 [open access].

Lenz, Tobias, and Alexandr Burilkov (2017): "Institutional Pioneers in World Politics: Regional Institution Building and the Influence of the European Union," European Journal of International Relations 23(3), 654–680 [open access].

Duina, Francesco, and Tobias Lenz (2017): "Democratic Legitimacy in Regional Economic Organizations: The European Union in Comparative Perspective," Economy and Society 46(3-4), 398–431.

Duina, Francesco, and Tobias Lenz (2016): "Regionalism and Diffusion Revisited: From Final Design Towards Stages of Decision-Making," Review of International Studies 42(4), 773–797.

Hebel, Kai, and Tobias Lenz (2016): "The Identity/Policy Nexus in European Foreign Policy," Journal of European Public Policy 23(4), 473–491.

Lenz, Tobias, Jeanine Bezuijen, Liesbet Hooghe, and Gary Marks (2014): "Patterns of International Organization: Task Specific vs. General Purpose," Politische Vierteljahresschrift 49, 131–156.

Jetschke, Anja, and Tobias Lenz (2013): "Does Regionalism Diffuse? A New Research Agenda for the Study of Regional Organizations," Journal of European Public Policy 20(4), 626–637.

Lenz, Tobias (2013): "EU Normative Power and Regionalism: Ideational Diffusion and Its Limits," Cooperation and Conflict 48(2), 211–228 [open access via ssoar].

Lenz, Tobias (2012): "Spurred Emulation: The EU and Regional Integration in Mercosur and SADC," West European Politics 35(1), 155–174.

Jetschke, Anja, and Tobias Lenz (2011): "Vergleichende Regionalismusforschung und Diffusion: Eine neue Forschungsagenda [Comparative Regionalism and Diffusion: A New Research Agenda]," Politische Vierteljahresschrift 52(3), 448–474.

Book Chapters and Proceedings

Iroulo, Lynda C. and Tobias Lenz (2022): "Global Theories of Regionalism," In Jürgen Rüland and Astrid Carrapatoso (eds.) Handbook on Global Governance and Regionalism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 36–51.

Lenz, Tobias (2019): "EU Entrepreneurship, Norm Diffusion and the Creation of Regional Parliamentary Assemblies," In Kolja Raube, Meltem Müftüler Bac, and Jan Wouters (eds.) Parliamentary Cooperation and Diplomacy in EU External Relations: An Essential Companion. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 70–87.

Lenz, Tobias, and Kai Striebinger (2017): "Vergleichende Regionalismusforschung [Comparative Regionalism]," In Simon Koschut (ed.) Regionen und Regionalismus in den Internationalen Beziehungen [Regions and Regionalism in International Relations]. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 39–56.

Lenz, Tobias, and Gary Marks (2016): "Regional Institutional Design: Delegation and Pooling," In Tanja Börzel, and Thomas Risse (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Comparative RegionalismOxford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 513–537.

Journal Articles

Bielawski, Martina, Jasna Jurišić, Tobias Lenz, Tim Maxian Rusche, and Collin Nippert (2006): "Via – Communis Europa: Europe’s Architecture in 2020," WeltTrends 50, 82-90.

Book Reviews

Lenz, Tobias (2017): "Review of Alexandru Grigorescu's 'Democratic Intergovernmental Organizations? Normative Pressures and Decision-Making Rules'," Review of International Organizations 12(1), 151–155.

Web Publications

Duina, Francesco, and Tobias Lenz (2016): "Do Regional Economic Organisations Suffer from a Democratic Legitimacy Deficit? Evidence from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas," ISA e-Symposium for Sociology, Vol. 6, No. 1.

Lenz, Tobias (2013): "External Influences on Regionalism: Studying EU Diffusion and Its Limits," e-International Relations, 17 July 2013.

Research and Policy Papers

Krösche, Niklas, Schirmer, Swantje, and Tobias Lenz (2021): "Claimed Legitimacy: Appreciating the Diversity of Regional Organizations," GIGA Focus Global, No. 4 (July).

Castro, Rafael, and Tobias Lenz (2019): "The Lima Summit: A Trial by Fire for the Pacific Alliance," GIGA Focus Latin America, No. 4 (July).

Lenz, Tobias (2018): "The European Union: A Model Under Pressure," GIGA Focus Global, No. 6 (December).

Lenz, Tobias (2017): "The Rising Authority of International Organisations," GIGA Focus Global, No. 4 (September).